Beata Bolesławska-Lewandowska musicology master class at the Liszt Academy

Date of the master class:

26–28 April 2022, 10.00–16.00

Venue:

Main Building, Auditorium

application & Participation:

The master class is open only to students and teachers of the Liszt Academy and the Bartók Conservatoire. Pre-registration is not required.

Beata Bolesławska-Lewandowska, PhD, assistant professor at the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences. She is a graduate of MA studies at the Institute of Musicology of the University of Warsaw (honors degree, 1998) and doctoral studies at the Faculty of Music of the University of Cardiff in Great Britain (2010). Author of books: Panufnik (Kraków 2001), Górecki. A portrait in memory (Kraków 2013), Panufnik. Architect of Emotions (Kraków 2014), The Life and Works of Andrzej Panufnik (1914–1991) (Farnham, 2015), Mycielski. Noblesse oblige (Kraków 2018), The Symphony and Symphonic Thinking in Polish Music since 1956 (Abingdon, 2019) and the editor of the two-volume correspondence of Zygmunt Mycielski and Andrzej Panufnik (Warsaw 2016 and 2018). She is also a co-editor (together with Jolanta Guzy-Pasiak) of the “Polish music abroad” publishing series initiated and published by the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences (vol. 1 "Artists - sources - archives", Warsaw 2017; vol. 2 "Between Warsaw and Paris (1918–1939)" , Warsaw 2019).

She regularly participates in musicological conferences in the country and abroad. She is the author of numerous scientific and popularizing articles on topics related to Polish contemporary music. Winner of Ministry of Education, Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (four times), Institute of Music and Dance (twice) and the Capital City of Warsaw scholarships, she was also honoured with the “Distinguished for Polish Culture” badge (2007) and the Honorary Award of the Polish Composers’ Union (2015) for her contribution to Polish culture and its promotion.

From 2015 she has been the Chair of the Musicological Section and a member of the Main Board of the Polish Composers’ Union.

The event was possible thanks to the support of the Ministry of Human Capacitites and the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music Foundation.