Research

By the Ordi­nance no. 30/2016 of 19 Octo­ber 2016, Rec­tor of the FCUM, Pro­fes­sor Klaudiusz Baran, set up the Aca­d­e­m­ic Coun­cil con­sist­ing of:

Pro­fes­sor Paweł Łukaszews­ki, DMus Hab. – Vice-Rec­tor for Schol­ar­ly Affairs; Pro­fes­sor FCUM Alek­sander Koś­ciów, DMus Hab. – Vice-Rec­tor for Stu­dent and Teach­ing Affairs; Pro­fes­sor FCUM Paweł Gus­nar, DMus Hab. – Vice-Rec­tor for For­eign Affairs; Pro­fes­sor Wio­let­ta Miłkows­ka, DMus Hab. (Depart­ment of Instru­men­tal and Ped­a­gog­i­cal Stud­ies in Białys­tok); Pro­fes­sor FCUM Alic­ja Gronau-Osińs­ka, DMus Hab. (Depart­ment of Com­po­si­tion, Con­duct­ing and The­o­ry of Music); Pro­fes­sor FCUM Marcin Łukaszews­ki, PhD Hab. (Depart­ment of Choir Con­duct­ing, Music Edu­ca­tion, Church Music, Rhyth­mics and Dance); Pro­fes­sor FCUM Ali­na Ratkows­ka, DMus Hab. (Depart­ment of Piano, Harp­si­chord and Organ); Pro­fes­sor FCUM Katarzy­na Szy­mańs­ka-Stuł­ka, PhD Hab. (Depart­ment of Com­po­si­tion, Con­duct­ing and The­o­ry of Music) – Sec­re­tary of the Aca­d­e­m­ic Coun­cil; Assis­tant Pro­fes­sor Rafał Grzą­ka, DMus. Hab. (Depart­ment of Instru­men­tal Stud­ies); Assis­tant Pro­fes­sor Katarzy­na Rakowiec­ka-Rojsza, DMus Hab. (Depart­ment of Sound Engi­neer­ing); Assis­tant Pro­fes­sor Euge­nia Rozlach, DMus Hab. (Depart­ment of Vocal and Act­ing Stud­ies); Anna Krzysztofik, MA; Łuc­ja Sala-Izdeb­s­ka, MA; Hubert Wojno, MA.

The University’s mul­ti-direc­tion­al research activ­i­ty is con­duct­ed both in the field of sci­ence (Chair of The­o­ry of Music, Inter­de­part­ment Course in Human­i­ties and For­eign Lan­guages, Chair of Music Edu­ca­tion, Chair of Audi­ol­o­gy and Pho­ni­atrics, Chair of Musi­cal Acoustics and arts (instru­men­tal chairs, Chair of Com­po­si­tion, Chair of Sym­pho­ny and Opera Con­duct­ing, Chair of Vocal Stud­ies, Chair of Sound Engi­neer­ing) by eigh­teen chairs and three insti­tutes.
The sci­en­tif­ic research activ­i­ty cov­ers prob­lems often over­looked by oth­er research cen­tres, includ­ing the psy­chol­o­gy and the­o­ry of music, the­o­ry of music ped­a­gogy and musi­cal upbring­ing, editor’s stud­ies of Fry­deryk Chopin’s body of work, instru­men­tal study, acoustics and musi­cal pho­ni­atrics. Pri­or­i­ty is giv­en to research focus­ing on Pol­ish music (Chopin’s work) and the the­o­ry of 20th cen­tu­ry music.
Oth­er issues with­in the scope of the researchers’ inter­est are: musi­cal edu­ca­tion in Poland; works of com­posers and per­form­ers of ear­ly and con­tem­po­rary music; recep­tion and per­cep­tion of music; per­cep­tion of tone, pitch and loud­ness of sound; aur­al mem­o­ry; analy­sis of the human voice and res­pi­ra­to­ry organ; musi­cal psy­cho­met­rics and psy­chodi­ag­nos­tics; mod­ern means of gen­er­at­ing and trans­mit­ting sound; music teach­ers’ pro­fes­sion­al devel­op­ment; musi­cal devel­op­ment with­in the human life­time.
The sys­tem of con­tin­u­ous and inter­dis­ci­pli­nary research includes basic and applied works aimed at sup­port­ing the needs of musi­cal edu­ca­tion and the country’s cul­ture and econ­o­my. These works are con­duct­ed in the fol­low­ing fields: study of fine arts, psy­chol­o­gy, ped­a­gogy, med­ical sci­ences, engi­neer­ing and envi­ron­men­tal pro­tec­tion, soci­ol­o­gy and phi­los­o­phy. The inter­dis­ci­pli­nary research teams are made up of musi­cians, music the­o­reti­cians, plas­tic artists, psy­chol­o­gists, ped­a­gogues, physi­cians, phys­i­ol­o­gists, physi­cists, engi­neers and IT spe­cial­ists. The results of their work, merg­ing such research fields as sci­ence, tech­nol­o­gy and arts, have been received with much inter­est by sev­er­al nation­al and inter­na­tion­al research cen­tres.

Research and Pub­lish­ing The Research Unit sched­ules and coor­di­nates research work in coop­er­a­tion with oth­er FCUM units, rais­es research funds and man­ages research bud­gets. Mem­bers of the unit par­tic­i­pate in organ­is­ing sem­i­nars and con­fer­ences, col­lects data for assess­ment of aca­d­e­m­ic work and pre­pares research analy­ses. The Research Unit’s activ­i­ties also include co-imple­men­ta­tion of research projects fund­ed by the Euro­pean Union.

Research Unit

The sci­en­tif­ic research activ­i­ty of the unit is reflect­ed in the pub­li­ca­tion of mono­graph­i­cal works, hand­books, the­mat­ic and prob­lem­at­ic works as well as pub­lish­ing series, includ­ing: W kręgu muzy­ki i myśli human­isty­cznej; Muzy­ka – Sztu­ka – Nau­ka; Dzieło muzy­czne. Dzieło sztu­ki; Biało­s­tock­ie Stu­dia Ped­a­gog­iczno-Muzy­czne; Szkoła muzy­cz­na; Ksz­tałce­nie słuchu. Prezen­tac­je – kon­frontac­je; Topos nar­o­dowy w muzyce pol­skiej; Pieśń Pol­s­ka. Źródła – trady­c­ja – współczes­ność; Almanach kom­pozy­torów UMFC; Pier­wodru­ki utworów kom­pozy­torów pol­s­kich.

Łuc­ja Sala-Izdeb­s­ka, MA
Head of Research Unit
Room 408, tel. 22 2789 237
nauka@chopin.edu.pl

Agniesz­ka Cichoc­ka
Research Coor­di­na­tor
Room 408, tel.  22 2789 345
nauka@chopin.edu.pl

Hubert Wojno, MA
Research Coor­di­na­tor
Room 408, tel. 22 2789 345
nauka@chopin.edu.pl

Publishing Unit — Chopin University Press — www.chopinup.pl

Anna Krzysztofik, MA
Head of Pub­lish­ing Unit, Edi­tor
Room 410, tel.  22 2789 309
wydawnictwa@chopin.edu.pl

Maja Baczyńs­ka, MA
Edi­tor
Room 400, tel. 22 2789 323
maja.baczynska@chopin.edu.pl

Emil­ia Dud­kiewicz, MA
Edi­tor
Room 400, tel.  22 2789 307
emilia.dudkiewicz@chopin.edu.pl

Łukasz Farcinkiewicz, MA
Edi­tor
Room 400, tel.  22 82789 308
lukasz.farcinkiewicz@chopin.edu.pl