Gregor Pompe has studied comparative literature, German language and musicology at the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana and his graduate thesis won him the faculty’s student Prešeren award. Now he works as a professor at the Musicology Department of the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana, where he in 2006 presented his doctoral thesis. He lectured music history at the Music Department at the Faculty of Education in Maribor and ran a seminar at the Musicology Department of the Karl Franzens University in Graz, Austria.

As a scientific researcher he studies contemporary music, connected to the questions about the semantics of music and music theatre. For his professional work he received the Mantuani award from the Slovenian Musicological Society and two awards from the Faculty of Arts and this faculty’s student council for his successful pedagogic work. He is also active as a publicist, music critic and composer and since 2009 he is the head of the Slovenian Musicological Society.