PhD Aleksandra Ferenc

Deputy Head of the Faculty of Composition, Conducting, Music Theory and Music Therapy. She graduated with honours from the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music with a master's degree in music theory, defending her thesis entitled ‘Agata Zubel's Symphonies – Transformations of the Genre’, for which she received the award for the best graduates, Best Diploma of the Year, as part of the Lower Silesian Province Self-Government programme. She graduated in English philology from the University of Wrocław. She is currently a doctoral student at the Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music in Krakow, where she is preparing her doctoral thesis in music theory under the supervision of Prof. Anna Granat-Janki.

She publishes scientific articles in journals and collective monographs in Poland and abroad (including Teoria Muzyki, Kwartalnik Młodych Muzykologów UJ, Musical Analysis. Historia – Theoria – Praxis, Principles of Music Composing). She actively participates in national and international academic conferences. She was invited to give a guest lecture for students of the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt in Weimar entitled Reinterpretation of the symphony genre in Agata Zubel's oeuvre (Reinterpretation of the symphony genre in Agata Zubel's oeuvre). She has hosted many cultural events, including concerts held as part of the Chinese-European Festival of Culture and Art.

Her interests include Silesian musical culture, especially the work of composers from the Wrocław milieu, particularly issues such as genre transformations and their interpretation by contemporary composers, the relationship between music and other fields of art and science (philosophy, aesthetics, sociology, literature), issues of intertextuality and intersemiotic relations in musical works.

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