Maryam Haiawi studied Catholic church music and piano at the University of Music in Freiburg im Breisgau, musicology at the University of Freiburg, and organ at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris and the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Codarts Rotterdam. Her organ teachers were Gerhard Weinberger, Martin Schmeding, Olivier Latry, Michel Bouvard, and Ben van Oosten. She has won prizes at international organ and piano competitions, received the musicology prize from the University of Music Freiburg for her thesis on the organ works of Jeanne Demessieux, and was a scholarship holder of the Cusanuswerk. Maryam Haiawi was organist at the University Church in Freiburg. Since 2019, she has been cantor of the Hauptkirche St. Trinitatis in Hamburg-Altona. She was a research assistant at the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig in the ‘Bach Repertorium’ project and at the graduate college ‘Interconfessionality in the Early Modern Period’ at the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Hamburg. Her dissertation was published in 2023 under the title ‘The Oratorio as a Confessional Statement? Interconfessional Exchange of Oratorios in the 18th Century’ (series ‘Beiträge zur Geschichte der Kirchenmusik’ [Contributions to the History of Church Music]). Since 2022, Maryam Haiawi has been a research assistant in the DFG research group ‘Spiritual Intermediality in the Early Modern Period’ at the University of Hamburg, investigating polyphonic music practice in the 16th and 17th centuries with regard to previously little-researched references to medieval ideas of angelic music. In addition to her research focus on sacred music of the early modern period, she is working on musical practice in the Moravian Church in the 18th and 19th centuries from a global historical perspective. Maryam Haiawi is currently a visiting professor of musicology at the Lübeck University of Music. In addition to her church music and academic activities, Maryam Haiawi is also active as a concert organist. Her repertoire focuses on German and French Romantic and Post-Romantic music.