Polish composer Alicja Gronau at the International Contemporary Art Festival TWO DAYS AND TWO NIGHTS OF NEW MUSIC
Alicja Gronau, a composer, theoretician of music and pedagogue. Graduate of the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw (Theory of Music under Professor Witold Rudziński, Composition in class of Professor Marian Borkowski). During her studies she had a scholarship of the Ministry of Culture and Art (twice) and she won the Wawrzyniec Rudziński artistic scholarship (Union of Stage Artists and Critics). In 1981 she was given Rector’s Award for her study results. In the period of 1982–1995 she was supplementing her education during composition courses organized by the Polish Contemporary Music Association (Rydzyna, Radziejowice, Kazimierz Dolny), teaching workshops under the direction of the Dalcroze Institute (Geneva, Zakopane) and in theory of music (the Tempus programme, Musicology, University of Warsaw). In 2000 she completed the Postgraduate Studies in Theory of Music at the FCAM. In the period of 1974–86 she was a member of the Experimental Rhythmics Workshop at the Institute of Music Pedagogy of the FCAM and a co-worker of Barbara Turska and Szabolc Esztényi. Since 1983 she has been a pedagogue at the FCUM; 1987 – Assistant, 1990 – Senior Assistant, 1997 – qualifications of the 1st degree in composition; 2000 – adiunkt (Assistant Professor), since 2008 – doktor habilitowany sztuk muzycznych (post-doctoral degree) in composition. Apart from that she was a guest lecturer at: the Pomeranian Pedagogical Academy in Słupsk, University of Zielona Góra, University of Warsaw, as well as Iasi University of Arts (Romania), International Theatre Institut (Munich, Germany), Universidad de Chile, Santiago de Chile (Chile), Instituto de Música, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (Chile), Conservatorio Superior de Música „Manuel Castillo”, Sevilla (Espania) and a number of courses and workshops in Poland. Since 1998 she has been Secretary of the Postgraduate Studies in Theory of Music, FCAM, since 2000 – also of the Postgraduate Studies in Composition. In 2008 she became Manager of the Postgraduate Studies in Theory of Music and the Postgraduate Studies in Composition, and since 2009 – of the PhD Studies. Since 2012 Head of the Chair of Theory of Music FCUM, since 2002 she has been a chapter member of the Music Industry Award “Fryderyk”, in 2011 she received Medal of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage “For Merits to Culture – Gloria Artis”.
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Odesa
27 April
Novoselskoho st., 63, 12:00-14:00