[en:]dr hab. Katarzyna Naliwajek

She has focused her research on the history of music in occupied Poland between 1939–45, including music in concentration camps, forgotten compositions and war-time music-related losses due to Nazi plunder and destruction. She also studies such topics as the interrelationship between music and politics, Polish contemporary music, opera, music aesthetics, theory and analysis, as well as the history of theory. Her recent book Sounds of Apocalypse. Music in Poland under German Occupation (Berlin: Peter Lang, 2022) was nominated for the Polish Academy of Sciences Award.

Since 2011 she has served as Member of the Repertoire Committee of the Warsaw Autumn International Festival of Contemporary Music. She is also a member of the Polish Composers Union and serves on the board of the Witold Lutosławski Society. As music curator at the Nowy Teatr in Warsaw she has created several events – concerts and installations. She has also curated the series of public presentations of operas directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski. Occasionally working as a dramaturge, she prepared the reconstruction (as well as the new translation and casting) of The Madwoman of Chaillot by Jean Giraudoux with theatre music by Witold Lutosławski (2018, at the Nowy Teatr), as well as the staging of The Madrigal Opera by Philip Glass(directed by Krzysztof Garbaczewski) at the Opera Rara Festival in Kraków.

She directed the reconstruction of In mir klingt ein Lied by Alma Rosé at the request of Helena Dunicz-Niwińska, violinist in the Birkenau women’s orchestra (it was published on CD titled Chopin in Birkenau). For the exhibition Music in Occupied Poland. 1939-1945, presented in Germany and Austria (Hamburg, Kiel, Berlin, Lüneburg, Görlitz, Peenemünde, Bregenz), as well as in Poland, she was awarded the prestigious Hosenfeld/Szpilman Gedenkpreis by the Leuphana Universität Lüneburg (2011).

She has recorded interviews with World War II survivors and conducted her research at different archives in Poland as well as at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide. Her publications and  research was recognized with several awards. The book Warszawa 1939–1945. Okupacyjne losy muzyków (2014), which she co-authored with Elżbieta Markowska, won the Literary Award of the City of Warsaw as well as the KLIO Award from the Association of Publishers of History Books in the Varsaviana category (2015). In 2015 she published the second volume of the book – with Andrzej Spóz, the director of the Warsaw Musical Society library. Her doctoral thesis “Konstanty Regamey’s oeuvre in the light of his aesthetic concepts” (written under the supervision of Professor Maciej Gołąb) won the Professor Hieronim Feicht Prize awarded by the Musicological Section of the Polish Composers Union (2009). In 2016 she received the Rector’s Award for her contribution to the development and prestige of the University of Warsaw and in 2023 the Rector’s Award for scientific achievements.

Her engagement with music education is reflected in the development of the website www.muzykotekaszkolna.pl, which she supervised during the creation process for the Polish National Audiovisual Institute.

In addition to translations and numerous publications, among others for concert programs and booklets for labels such as Chandos, Dux, Channel Classics, Muso, she has presented the results of her research on Polish music at the Universität Salzburg (2006), Jagiellonian University (2007; 2012), University of London (2008), University of Bristol (2006; 2010), University of Manchester (2012, 2015), National Museum in Poznań, Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Council of Europe in Strasbourg, University of Oxford (2013), United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington (2014), as well as Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung Berlin (2011), University of Arizona and Université Libre de Bruxelles (2013), Wiener Library for the Study of Holocaust and Genocide in London (2015), and as keynote speaker at the University of London, Royal Holloway, at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester (2016), at the invitation of the Mémoire d’Auschwitz – Fondation Auschwitz in Brussels and of the Historical Archive at the University of Athens (2017), at the Panteion University in Athens (2019), at the Klara Festival in Brussels, at the Centre d’histoire de Sciences Po in Paris (2020), at the Institut für Musikwissenschaft und Medienwissenchaft Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (2021, online), at the Beethoven-Haus in Bonn (2022) and at the German Historical Institute in Warsaw (2023) and Paris (2024).

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