Current position: Extradepartamental Units of Academy: Chair of Aural Training
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Professor Danuta Dobrowolska-Marucha
Professor Danuta
Dobrowolska-Marucha


Chair of Aural Training

The Chair of Aural Training is responsible for research, teaching and consulting. It is made up of aural training specialists from all the Polish academies of music.

Research is carried out in two units: the Unit of Aural Training and the Unit of Aural Music Perception. The following subject areas are studied:
- history and theory of aural training
- methods of aural training in Europe
- aural training of musicians representing different specialities
- aural perception of music representing different periods, styles and genres.

The Chair documents all Polish research on aural training and also collects scores and recordings for the National Solfeggio Library which is now being developed.

The Chair's research findings and conference proceedings are published in the Chair of Aural Training Bulletin "Z prac Miedzyuczelnianej Katedry Ksztalcenia Sluchu" edited by D. Dobrowolska-Marucha.

The Chair's teaching and consulting activities include supervision of the teaching of aural training at music academies and less advanced levels of music instruction. Special attention is paid to the training of teachers specialising in aural training. The Chair organises courses, seminars and workshops for pupils and teachers and also publishes didactic materials for music schools. Members of the Chair teach at national and international music courses. The Chair also supervises masters' theses in aural training all over the country.

The Chair consults in the following areas:
- it evaluates and reviews didactic and research publications, syllabuses and research projects
- its members sit on examination committees appointed by the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts for the purpose of examining teachers
- it inspects and evaluates lessons at music schools
- it runs a consultation centre for pupils and pedagogues
- it produces and publishes teaching materials.

The Chair of Aural Training co-operates with the Chair of Music Psychology, the Chair of Musical Education, the Chair of Acoustics and several foreign centres: Conservatoire de Musique (Nevers), Conservatoire National de Paris and the Kodály Institute in Kecskemét.

Head of the Chair: Professor Danuta Dobrowolska-Marucha, AMFC Warsaw.
room 421, tel. (48 22) 827 72 41 ext. 214


Chair Members:
Professor Danuta Dobrowolska-Marucha - Head of the Chair

Warsaw
Professor Izabela Targonska
Maria Wacholc, Ph.D., Professor AMFC
    Assistant Professor Ewa Stachurska
    Assistant Profesor Ewa Wilczynska
    Assistant Anna Daniszewska
    Senior Lecturer Elzbieta Brodzinska
    Senior Lecturer Elzbieta Szewczyk
Senior Lecturer Danuta Wilczak

Bialystok
    Professor Bozenna Sawicka
    Senior Lecturer Krystyna Ambrozek
    Senior Lecturer Elzbieta Gordon
    Senior Lecturer Ewa Huszcza

Bydgoszcz
    Professor Eugeniusz Glowski
    Senior Lecturer Witold Mlociñski
    Senior Lecturer Krystyna Tubaja
    Assistant Elzbieta Szczurko
    Assistant Michal Zielinski

Gdansk
    Professor Alicja Kowalska-Pinczak
    Assistant Professor Alicja Kozlowska-Lewna, Ph. D.
    Assistant Professor Wieslawa Anczykowska-Wysocka, Ph. D.
    Lecturer Janina Brach

Lodz
    Professor Jerzy Bauer
    Professor Feliks Flis
    Assistant Malgorzata Grajter
    Assistant Halina Zielinska
    Senior Lecturer Malgorzata Dowlasz
    Senior Lecturer Jerzy Zamuszko

Katowice
    Assistant Professor Czeslaw Freund
    Senior Lecturer Barbara Stencel

Cracow
    Assistant Professor Anna Zawadzka
    Assistant Magdalena Chrenkoff
    Assistant Ewa Grossman
    Lecturer Magdalena Dlugosz
    Lecturer Teresa Fraczkiewicz
    Lecturer Grazyna Kowalczyk
    Lecturer Ewa Zuchowicz
    Lecturer Barbara Zawadzka

Poznan
    Professor Jerzy Bajon
    Senior Lecturer Maria Cwiklinska
    Senior Lecturer Lidia Kieronczyk
    Senior Lecturer Jerzy Zieleniak
    Lecturer Anna Dragan
    Lecturer Anna Kedzierska

Wroclaw
    Assistant Michal Moc
    Senior Lecturer Lidia Brzoza
    Senior Lecturer Kazimiera Olejniczak
    Senior Lecturer Irena Zathey-Tom
    Lecturer Halina Kuszmir
    Irena Wolniewska, M.A.

Collaboretors:
    Professor Jan Kaniewski - Warsaw
    Professor Lucja Kaszycki - Warsaw






Compiled by: The Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music