Sergi Zauner earned his doctorate in Musicology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona with a dissertation on Hispanic liturgical music of the Renaissance. After a brief period as a professor at the UAB, he developed much of his academic career as a contracted researcher at Saarland University (Saarbrücken, Germany). He currently teaches music at the Institute of Liturgy of Barcelona ad instar Facultatis and at ESADE–Ramon Llull University. He is a collaborator with the Institute for Culture and Society (ICS) at the University of Navarra and a member of the Catalan Society for Liturgical Studies (Institute of Catalan Studies).
His research activity has focused on the study of liturgical music from the Middle Ages to the modern era, with a special emphasis on performance practices, the relationship between music and discourse, and the construction of sound experiences in ritual contexts, from an approach that incorporates perspectives from sound studies. He has participated in numerous national and international conferences and scientific meetings, publishing the results of his research in specialized journals and collective volumes. He has been involved in the description and cataloging of medieval musical manuscripts and has participated in various funded research projects, such as Computergestützte Analyse harmonischer Strukturen (Saarland University – Erlangen-Nürnberg University), Le Lexique musical de la Renaissance (Center for Advanced Renaissance Studies, Tours), and Prácticas interpretativas en las catedrales hispanas (1563–1833) (University of Navarra).
He combines academic research with dissemination and musicological consultancy in the field of historical interpretation. He has collaborated with specialized ensembles, providing contextual and interpretative criteria for the recovery of repertoire, and with festivals by creating program notes. Additionally, he has published articles of reflection and dissemination with the aim of bringing the challenges of musical research to a broader audience. His interdisciplinary perspective seeks to explore and explain music as a vehicle for constructing meaning and cultural connection.