Hana VLHOVÁ-WÖRNER studied Musicology in Prague and Basel (Switzerland), (PhDr. 1990, PhD 2000, habilitation 2009); in 2000-2001, she was holder of the Fellowship of the Swiss Government (“Bundesstipendium”) for her postdoctoral study at the Basel University. In 1993–2006, she was a Researcher at the Institute of Musicology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University. In 2004–2005 and 2006–2012, she taught at Duke University, UNC in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and Yale University (she was also “Fellow in Sacred Music, Worship, and Arts“ at the Institute of Sacred Music in 2011-12). She was Senior Lecturer and from 2016 Reader at the School of Music, Bangor University, Wales. From March 2017 to December 2018, she was the Head of the Department of Music history at the Institute of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences. She has been teaching courses on European music history at Basel University since 2016. She is the director of “Old Myths, New Facts”, a joint project of the Masaryk Institute and Archives of the CAS and of the Faculty of Arts of the Charles University, 2019–2023, (funded by the programm “Excellence” of the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic).
