Professor Andrzej Miśkiewicz, PhD Hab.

Andrzej Miśkiewicz 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 Miśkiewicz has been work­ing at the Fry­deryk Chopin Uni­ver­sity of Music since 1979. In 2004 he was appointed Pro­fes­sor Extra­or­di­nar­ius and Head of Chair of Musi­cal Acoustics. From 1991 to 1995 he worked as Research Asso­ciate at North­east­ern Uni­ver­sity in Boston (USA).

The sci­en­tific activ­ity of Andrzej Miśkiewicz 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. Miśkiewicz 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 Miśkiewicz’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 Uni­ver­sity of Music, Pol­ish Radio Edu­ca­tion Cen­tre in War­saw, and Gen­eral Motors Tech­ni­cal Edu­ca­tion Cen­tre in Detroit (USA).

Andrzej Miśkiewicz’s publications