Leonardo J. Waisman combines the activities of musicologist (as Principal Investigator of CONICET) with those of harpsichord player and director. He received his doctorate in Musicology from the University of Chicago after having studied Composition at the National University of Córdoba. He has taught at the national universities of Córdoba, Buenos Aires and the Litoral, at the Oberlin College (Ohio, USA) and at the Universities of Valladolid and Complutense in Madrid (Spain). In 2015/16 he was the holder of the prestigious Simón Bolívar Chair of Latin American Studies at the University of Cambridge. He has published works on the Italian madrigal, American colonial music, the practice of performing early music, Argentine popular music, the sociocultural insertion of musical styles and the operas of Vicente Martín y Soler. His most recent work is the edition of the Cycle of Offertories of the Jesuit missions of Chiquitos. In particular, he has devoted himself to the ordering, restoration, study, and dissemination of the music of the Jesuit missions in the Southern Cone, and his eighteenth-century editions of operas are used in some of the world's leading theaters.