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Małgorzata Szymanek-Piotrowska

theory of music

Doc. Malgorzata Szymanek-Piotrowska is a graduate of the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music (currently Fryderyk Chopin University of Music) in Warsaw, Poland, where she studied Theory of Music, Composition (class of prof. Marian Borkowski) and Symphony and Opera Conducting (class of prof. Boguslaw Madey). Since 1991, she has been a professor at her alma mater, teaching classes within the field of Music Theory, including: music history, music literature, history of forms, musical styles and compositional techniques. An expert in music history and literature, Ms. Szymanek-Piotrowska has focused on the detailed studying of musical scores, thoroughly analyzing all elements of the composition, including its interpretations by different artists. She has been asked to share her vast music knowledge as a guest lecturer throughout Poland and for outstanding teaching achievements, was awarded the Rector’s Award in 1993-94, 2008-09, and 2014-15.

In addition to her academic career, Ms. Szymanek-Piotrowska has been involved in many music events and projects. From 1996-2004 she supervised the Academy’s Concert Bureau, overseeing the concert series, “Wednesdays at the Academy of Music.” She was the assistant to the Artistic Director for the 1st International Organ Competition. From 2001-2004, she was responsible for the festival ”Summer Musical Evenings, Dziekanka” as an Artistic Director and organizer of the event.  In the subsequent years, to fill the needs of various Warsaw communities, she created several educational concert series. To enhance her skills in this area, Ms. Szymanek-Piotrowska completed the “Marketing in Culture” course for cultural managers organized by the Center for Culture Animation of the Ministry of Culture and Art.

Ms. Szymanek-Piotrowska explored other outlets for music as well. In 1996, in cooperation with the Contemporary Music Editorial Office of Polish Radio, she produced her own programs, including: “The works of Zbigniew Bargielski”, “In the world of sublime aesthetics of Tadeusz Baird’s works”, and “In search of avant-garde contemporary Korean music”.

From her early years to the present day, Ms. Szymanek-Piotrowska has been an avid choir singer.  At the age of ten, she performed in children’s operas at the Grand Theatre-National Opera.  During her college years she was a member of the Chamber Choir of the AMFC and the Chamber Choir of the Warsaw Opera.  She also collaborated as a music consultant, vocalist and choir singer with the Polish Radio Theatre, recording music for radio dramas.  After graduation in 1997, she became a member and manager of the Chopin Vocal Consort choir and, from 2007, a member and manager of the Cappella Carole Varsaviana vocal ensemble, which recorded music by the greatest composers of Polish film music, gave concerts in Moscow (2008), Rome (2011) and went on tour in Belarus, Ukraine, Lithuania, and Latvia (2018).   A further recognition of her choir experience was a two month contract with Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, where she performed in The Master-Singers of Nuremberg by Wagner in (1989).

For her contributions to the Polish Culture, Ms. Szymanek-Piotrowska received award from the Minister of Culture of the Republic of Poland in 2001.