Wanderer, Interpreter, Guide

Abstract

The Honoris Causa Doctorate bestowed today upon Maestro Jordi Savall by the University of Silesia in Katowice is not only a testimony to our academic community’s admiration for a preeminent artist, but also an expression of the highest esteem, in which we all hold a great humanist: the man who transformed the study and performance of early music into a platform of peaceful rapprochement and mutual fascination, creating a space where artists and music lovers of many cultures and nations meet sharing the spirit of compassion. In the world scarred by historical rifts – and splitting further, time and time again – Jordi Savall carries out his tireless work of transgressing historical and political boundaries to offer us a meeting of minds in the only universal language ever invented by man: the language of music(...).