prof. dr hab. Anna Granat-Janki

Music theorist and musicologist. She studied music theory at the State Higher School of Music in Wrocław (1976-1981). In 1985, thanks to a French government scholarship, she stayed in Paris, where she conducted research on the work of Aleksander Tansman. In 1992, she obtained a PhD in musicology at the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, in 2006 a postdoctoral degree in music theory at the Academy of Music in Krakow, and in 2014 the title of professor of musical arts. Since 1981, she has been working at the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław, where she has been head of the Department of Silesian Music Culture since 2006 and head of the Department of Music Theory and History of Silesian Music Culture since 2010. She has organised a series of conferences on the analysis of musical works, Silesian musical culture and Karol Lipiński, patron of the Academy of Music in Wrocław.

Her research interests focus on the history and theory of 20th- and 21st-century music, the work of 20th- and 21st-century Polish composers, with particular emphasis on the oeuvre of Aleksander Tansman, Marta Ptaszyńska and Wrocław composers, as well as the history of post-war musical culture in Wrocław and musical analysis (in particular semiotic analysis). She is the author of two books: Forma w twórczości instrumentalnej Aleksandra Tansmana (Form in the Instrumental Works of Aleksander Tansman) and Twórczość kompozytorów wrocławskich w latach 1945-2000 (The Works of Wrocław Composers in 1945-2000), numerous articles in Polish and foreign monographs and academic journals, as well as in the PWM Music Encyclopaedia, the Encyclopaedia of Wrocław and the Polish Biographical Dictionary. She has participated in many academic conferences in Poland and abroad (Paris, Los Angeles, Imatra, Rennes, Banská Štiavnica, Canterbury, Kaunas, Cluj-Napoca, Athens, Vilnius). She is the editor of fourteen collective monographs from series such as: Analysis of Musical Works. History-Theory-Praxis, Traditions of Silesian Musical Culture, Musicians of Wrocław (Ryszard Bukowski, Tadeusz Natanson), Karol Lipiński – Life, Work, Era, as well as multi-author monographs In Tribute to Aleksander Tansman (1897-1986) and Homage to Aleksandre Tansman (1897-1986). He is a member of associations and research groups, including Les Amis d'Aleksandre Tansman in Paris, the Polish Composers' Union in Warsaw, the Polish Society for Music Analysis in Warsaw, the Academy of Cultural Heritages in Helsinki, the Athens Institute for Education and Research in Athens, and the Members of the Working Group for Music History in Central and Eastern Europe.