Maricarmen Gómez Muntané - Biography#

After studying the piano at the Conservatorio Superior de Música del Liceo in Barcelona, Maricarmen Gomez studied art history at the University of Barcelona (PhD 1979) and musicology at Göttingen under Ursula Günther (1981 - 1983). She joined the faculty at the Universidad Autónoma of Barcelona in 1985, and has been a visiting professor at Princeton (1989 - 1990), the Universidad Autónoma of Madrid (1991 - 1998) and the University of North Texas (1996). She has also served on the directorium of the IMS (1987 - 1997).

Gómez's work has focussed mainly on Iberian music of the 14th and 16th centuries, with relevant studies of French Ars Nova music. Her doctoral thesis was particularly distinguished for its presentation of new archival materials, followed by later work on early Aragonese singers, instrumentalists and composers. She also has a strong interest in editing and editorial problems, seen not only in her reconsideration of the Mass of Barcelona, the Llibre Vermell and the consueta of Elche, but also in her reconstruction of a fragmentary French chansonnier in Montserrat as well as editions of the music of the Flechas and of Pedro de Pastrana.