Dr Ewelina Grygier

A holder of a doctoral degree in art sciences, graduate in musicology as well as ethnology and cultural anthropology of the Adam Mickiewicz University, she studied in Poznań (Adam Mickiewicz University), Warsaw (University of Warsaw) and Vienna (University of Vienna).

Her research interests relate to music in public spaces. In 2021 she defended her doctoral thesis “Artist, performer, beggar. The phenomenon of street music making in Poland in the twenty-first century in the light of the performance theory”, written under the supervision of Prof. Ewa Dahlig-Turek.

Guest lecturer at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music (Faculty of Jazz and Stage Music, Department of Jazz and World Music) and at the Post-Graduate School, Institute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences.

Her articles have appeared in Ruch Muzyczny (regular collaboration since 2014) and in Pismo Folkowe (where she has her own column “Ethnoreading”). She collaborates with the Phonographic Collection of the Institute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences, on the digitisation and processing of ethnophonographic materials, and with the MeaKultura Foundation on educational projects.
A flautist, she gives regular concerts with the music and dance project “To hear dance”; in 2019 she released her solo album Szplin. She is also active in education in traditional music performance, i.e. in 2012–2016 she was involved in the Trad Music Workshop in Lockenhaus, Austria.

Member of the international research team Street Music Research Unit (University of Adelaide) and the Polish Ethnomusicological Seminar.