MARKO MOTNIK is a Slovene musician and musicologist working in Vienna. He graduated from the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, majoring in organ and harpsichord. There, he also obtained his MA in Instrumental Music Education and, in 2010, also his PhD degree with his thesis on Jacob Handl – Gallus. He works as an associate at the Saxonian Academy of Sciences in Leipzig (Bach-Archive) and the Austrian Academy of Sciences where he is doing research on 18th-century dance culture. He also cooperates with the archives in Eisenstadt in Burgenland, helping to catalogue musical manuscripts. Since 2006, he has been a member of Tantz-Art, an early dance ensemble based in Vienna.
