Textus & Musica

Nina-Maria Wanek has been doing research on Byzantine music for over twenty-five years. In 2006, she was awarded her habilitation for “Historical Musicology” at the University of Vienna. Her areas of expertise are Byzantine and Modern Greek music from the Middle Ages until today, Western plainchant as well as 20^th-century Austrian music. From 2015 until 2020 she was principal investigator of a major research-project on the “Cultural transfer of music between Byzantium and the West”. The results of this project are going to be published as a monograph by BRILL Publishers in 2024. Since 2020 she is the leader of another research-project at Vienna University about “Psalm Composition in Middle- and Late Byzantium”. Wanek regularly teaches at the Institute of Musicology (Vienna University) as well as abroad. For her extensive publication list see her website