Biography

A performer and musicologist, Pedro Memelsdorff has long been a member of Jordi Savall’s Hesperion XXI. In 1987 he founded Mala Punica, an ensemble specialized in medieval polyphony and recipient of numerous awards. A former fellow of Villa I Tatti, a Bloch lecturer at Berkeley, and a Blodgett Distinguished Artist at Harvard, he is now an Affiliate Researcher at the University of Tours and a member of the college of the Swiss Graduate School in Italian Civilization. A guest lecturer at Oxford and Pisa, he co-directs the Early-Music Master programmes at ESMUC-Barcelona and directs the EMS at the Fondazione Cini-Venice. He also served as the Director of the Schola Cantorum in Basel.