He is a musicologist specialising in historical musicology, with extensive experience in research, teaching, and team management. His multidisciplinary profile enables him to collaborate with specialists from various fields, including art historians, book historians, philologists, sociologists, and documentalists. He has combined his Master’s and Doctoral studies with teaching, musical direction, and institutional management.
In the academic sphere, Escrivà-Llorca has specialised in sixteenth-century noble patronage, taking part in European research groups and networks. He has led the research group MUSURBA on urban musicology and soundscapes and is an active member of other research teams such as IHA-UJI (Iconography and Art History at the Universitat Jaume I) and Musica Rudolphina (Prague). He has significantly contributed to studying patronage, material culture, and book history in musicology, publishing high-impact works. More recently, he has turned his attention to the didactics of music history, the training profiles of musicologists, and critical music education.
At the international level, he is a member of the COST Actions “A New Ecosystem of Early Music Studies (EarlyMuse)” and “Print Culture and Public Spheres in Central Europe 1500–1800 (PCPSce).” He regularly participates in international conferences and collaborative projects. In teaching, Ferran Escrivà-Llorca has extensive experience across various educational levels.
He has held positions at Universitat Jaume I (adjunct lecturer), Conservatorio Superior de Música de Canarias (interim full professor), and Universidad Internacional de Valencia (tenured professor and senior researcher), where he also served as Director of Teaching at the Vice-Rectorate for Teaching and Educational Innovation. He is involved in quality management projects, faculty training, and project evaluation. He is a quality advisor and academic evaluator for national and regional agencies. He is currently Secretary of the “Arts and Humanities” committee of the Agency for Scientific and University Quality of Andalusia (ACCUA).
His publications are widely available online and include, alongside peer-reviewed articles, contributions to national and international collective volumes such as New Perspectives on Early Music in Spain (Reichenberger, 2015), Hearing the City in Early Modern Europe (Brepols, 2018), Música a la Llum. Documentació i Patrimoni de les Bandes de Música (Institut Valencià de Cultura - Generalitat Valenciana, 2020), El Arte de la Persuasión: La fabricación mítica de la realeza (Universidad de Murcia, 2022), and Listening to Confraternities (Brill, 2024).