PhD Katarzyna Bartos

She completed her master’s studies in music theory at the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music with distinction, defending her thesis “Light in the Works of Agata Zubel and Grażyna Pstrokońska-Nawratil.” As part of the Erasmus scholarship, she studied at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna under the supervision of Prof. Gesine Schröder. She has been awarded multiple scholarships from the Ministry of Higher Education as well as prizes from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage for outstanding students. In 2020, she defended her doctoral dissertation in music theory at the Academy of Music in Kraków.

She is the author of over 30 scholarly and popular-science articles published in journals and collective monographs in Poland and abroad (including Teoria Muzyki, Kwartalnik Młodych Muzykologów UJ, Lithuanian Musicology). Since 2012, she has been collaborating with the online journal Meakultura.

She has taken part in nearly 40 academic conferences in countries such as Greece, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom, presenting papers on contemporary music—its aesthetics, history, analysis, and interpretation. Her research focuses primarily on Polish music, with particular attention to the works of 20th- and 21st-century composers Grażyna Bacewicz, Witold Lutosławski, Agata Zubel, and Grażyna Pstrokońska-Nawratil.

She is also actively engaged in music education for children and the popularization of music. She has collaborated with the Wrocław branch of the Children’s University, the Pan Tadeusz Museum in Wrocław, and the Lower Silesian Science Festival. She is a certified teacher of the American children’s music education method Music Together® and has participated in the Masters of Didactics project (University of Groningen).

At the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music, she teaches theoretical subjects (practical harmony, analysis, score reading, and musical forms).

Photo: Magdalena Jagodzka