Associate Professor Magdalena Dziadek, Ph.D.Hab.

Magdalena Dziadek was born in Bielsko-Biala in 1961. She studied theory of music at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice (diploma with distinction, 1984). In 1991 she received her ph. doctorate at the Institute of Arts of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw for the monograph of Warsaw music critic in the year 1810-1890. In 2004 she received post-doctorate degree at the same place after publishing the monograph Polish music critic in the years 1890-1914 (Katowice 2002). Since 1992 she has developed independent scientific activity, working on the history of Polish musical culture in 19^th and 20^th centuries, first of all on the history of Polish musical criticism. She also published the book Moda na „Wiosne”. Festiwal Poznanska Wiosna muzyczna w latach 1961-2002 (Poznań 2003) and another book about the history of the activites of the Katowice Chapter of the Polish Composers' Union, entitled Musica polonica nova na Slasku [Musica polonica nova in Silesia], Katowice 2003 (together with Bogumila Mika and Anna Kochanska). She also works as music critic for „Ruch Muzyczny” and „Slask”.
She is a member of the editorial staffs of the periodicals „Opcje” (since 1998) and „De Musica” (since 2003). She is a member of the Polish Composers' Union (since 2003 - the member of the Main Board of its Musicological Section) and the International Musicological Society.
Since 2006 she is a professor at the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw.
She lives in Cieszyn.

Compiled by: The Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music