Assistant Professor Alicja Gronau-Osińska, DA Hab.

Ali­cja Gro­nau (Gronau-Osińska), 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 1^st 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) 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 2001 she has man­aged the Pol­ish 20^th and 21^st Cen­tury Music Lab­o­ra­tory at the Chair of Com­po­si­tion, FCUM, and since 2002 she has been a chap­ter mem­ber of  the Music Indus­try Award “Fryderyk”.

She is an author of 12 orches­tra works, 11 cham­ber (instru­men­tal) works, 7 solo pieces, 8 vocal pieces, 6 vocal and instru­men­tal pieces (orches­tra and cham­ber works), 7 mul­ti­me­dia pieces and 1 opera. Her pieces have been per­formed in Poland and abroad, on such fes­ti­vals as: the Young Musi­cians to the Young Lis­ten­ers , Inter­na­tional Young Com­posers’ Forum, Gdańsk Young Com­posers’ Meet­ings “The Path”, War­saw Days of Music, Zamość Days of Music, the War­saw Autumn (accom­pa­ny­ing con­certs), Byd­goszcz Music Fes­ti­val, Lab­o­ra­tory of Con­tem­po­rary Music, “New Works In Opera and Music The­ater” Munich (Ger­many), the 7^th Euro­pean Youth Music Festi­val Bern (Switzer­land), Music Por­traits of Com­posers and on con­certs: “Con­certo Avenna Presents”, con­certs of the FCAM’s Chair of Com­po­si­tion, Com­posers’ Sym­po­siums at the FCAM, Diver­ti­mento Cham­ber Youth Orche­stra — Ottawa (Canada), VIP – the First Per­for­mance of the Opera at the Cas­tle in Szczecin, the 6^th Fes­ti­val Inter­na­tio­nal de Música Con­tem­po­ránea Dar­win Var­gas, Val­pa­ra­iso (Chile), Viñia del Mar (Chile)„ Music Por­traits of Com­posers, War­saw Music Meet­ings. Her phono­graphic achieve­ments are four CDs and one DVD.

She won numer­ous com­po­si­tion com­pe­ti­tions: 1987 – hon­orary men­tion at the Young Com­posers’ Com­pe­ti­tion of the Pol­ish Com­posers’ Union in War­saw for Pentarchia for cham­ber orches­tra; 1992 – the 4^th Prize (the 1^st Prize was not awarded) at the Com­posers’ Com­pe­ti­tion “Gdańsk 1992” organ­ised by Schola Can­to­rum Geda­nen­sis for Miron­czar­nie II for mixed choir a capella; 1992 – the 1^st Prize at the T. Baird Com­pe­ti­tion for Young Com­posers in War­saw for Okna na 23 instru­menty smycz­kowe (Win­dows for 32 string instru­ments); 2001 – the 1^st Prize at the Com­posers’ Com­pe­ti­tion “The Gar­den Music” organ­ised by the Botan­i­cal Gar­den of the Jagiel­lon­ian Uni­ver­sity in Krakow for the piece Pobłyski (Flashes) for soprano and cham­ber orches­tra; 2001 – the 1^st Prize at the A. Spassov Inter­na­tional Com­posers’ Com­pe­ti­tion in Plo­div (Bul­garia) for Invo­ca­zione — sin­fo­nia vocale for mixed choir a capella; 2001 – Nom­i­na­tion of the CD 21^st Cen­tury Pol­ish Cho­ral Music (Acte Préa­la­ble 0100) with the piece Bło­go­sła­wiony (Blessed) from the can­tata Afir­ma­cje (Affir­ma­tions) was nom­i­nated to the “Fry­deryk 2001” award; 2002 – the 1^st Prize at the Inter­na­tional Com­posers’ Com­pe­ti­tion on the 45^th anniver­sary  of the Opera at the Cas­tle in Szczecin for the cham­ber opera I co wy na to? czyli cier­pie­nia nowego Piran­della (And what will you say? – Suf­fer­ings of the Young Piran­dello). In 2003 stag­ing of this opera was in the final of the poll of the Szczecin press and tele­vi­sion – in the cat­e­gory “Per­for­mance of the Year” – and it was nom­i­nated to the Amber Ring, and in 2004 the film from its first per­for­mance was rec­om­mended by the Pol­ish Sec­tion of the Inter­na­tio­nal The­ater Insti­tute to the opera films review dur­ing the Eighth Inter­na­tio­nal Music The­ater Work­shop “the New Works in Opera and Music The­ater” in Munich, Ger­many and it was the only film rep­re­sent­ing Poland there. She was also awarded with the Filc Medal (1^st Prize) dur­ing the 29^th School of Visual Math­e­mat­ics at the Acad­emy of Pod­lasie in Siedlce.

As a the­o­reti­cian of music she has pub­lished 4 books, 20 pub­li­ca­tions being part of books, 20 articles,40 speeches (includ­ing com­men­taries to demon­stra­tions or work­shops) devoted to the com­po­si­tion tech­nique and con­tem­po­rary music and issues of cre­ative teach­ing and music and move­ment analy­sis. She is a co-author of two books, includ­ing Nowe poko­le­nie kom­po­zy­to­rów pol­skich — alma­nach, red. M. Stow­piec, A. Gro­nau, J. Kazem-Bek, Pomo­rze, Byd­goszcz 1988, and an author of two books: Ryt­mika w Aka­de­mii Muzycz­nej im. F. Cho­pina w War­sza­wie,  AMFC, War­saw 2004 and Poe­mat — Requ­iem. Forma zna­cząca, War­saw 2007. She also pre­pared a 4-hour film Ryt­mika w uję­ciu Bar­bary Tur­skiej, Warsaw-Krynica 2000. She was an edi­tor of almost 20 pub­li­ca­tions, includ­ing a two-volume Almanach kom­po­zy­to­rów Aka­de­mii Muzycz­nej im. F. Cho­pina w War­sza­wie, AMFC, Warsaw 2004.

She is a mem­ber of the Pol­ish Com­posers’ Asso­ci­a­tion (its Gen­eral Sec­re­tary since 2009) and the Pol­ish Con­tem­po­rary Music Asso­ci­a­tion. She works actively for the Catholic Intel­li­gence Club in War­saw. In 2002 she was elected to the Rese­arch Board of Advi­sors — Ame­ri­can Bio­gra­phi­cal Insti­tute, Inc. Rale­igh. North Carolina, USA.

Cho­sen Com­po­si­tions (in Pol­ish)
Cho­sen Pub­li­ca­tions (in Polish)