Andrzej Miskiewicz, Ph.D.Hab.

Andrzej Miskiewicz was born in 1955, in Warsaw. He graduated from Joachim Lelewel High School (1974) and Fryderyk Chopin Music School in Warsaw (1975). From 1975 to 1980 he studied at the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music, Department of Sound Recording and received a Master's Degree with honors in Musical Art (Music Recording). In 1982 he was awarded a British Council scholarship and was a post-diploma fellow at the University of Surrey, Department of Music, Guildford (UK). In 1984 he completed doctoral studies in music theory at the Department of Composition, Conducting, and Music Theory (Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music). In 1989 he defended his doctoral thesis titled Loudness Scaling of Musical Tones at the Institute of Acoustics, Adam Mickiewicz University (Poznań). In 2004 he received a habilitation degree in humanistic sciences (arts) from the Warsaw University, Department of History.
Andrzej Miskiewicz has been working at the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music since 1979. In 2004 he was appointed Professor Extraordinarius and Head of Music Acoustics Laboratory. From 1991 to 1995 he worked as Research Associate at Northeastern University in Boston (USA).
The scientific activity of Andrzej Miskiewicz is interdisciplinary and is related with musical acoustics, psychoacoustics and sound engineering. His research work concerns the psychoacoustical fundamentals of music perception, scaling of auditory sensations, and sound quality assessment. Dr. Miskiewicz is member of the Polish Acoustical Society, the Acoustical Society of America and the Audio Engineering Society. He is currently Vice-chairman of the Warsaw Chapter of the Polish Acoustical Society.
Andrzej Miskiewicz's teaching activity is focused on auditory perception and music perception. At present he teaches the following courses: Timbre Solfege, Scientific Literature Seminar and Master's Thesis Seminar (Department of Sound Engineering), Fundamentals of Electroacoustics and Auditory Perception (Multimedia Production Program). He also teaches a course in Musical Acoustics at the Institute of Musicology, Warsaw University. In the past years he taught various courses related to auditory perception and sound quality assessment at the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music, Polish Radio Education Centre in Warsaw, and General Motors Technical Education Centre in Detroit (USA).

Warsaw, Mai 2005

Compiled by: The Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music