dr Elżbieta Zwolińska

She studied musicology at the University of Warsaw (1962–1967), where she also obtained her doctorate in musicology (1977). She went on internships at the University of Vienna (1972) and Utrecht University (1977/78), and in 1985-87 she conducted research at the Johann Gutenberg University in Mainz as an Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung scholar. She worked at the Institute of Musicology, University of Warsaw, from graduation until her retirement in 2011. In 1999–2002 she served as deputy director of the Institute and from 2004 as acting head of the History of Polish Music Unit.

Her research interests encompass musical creation and culture in the Middle Ages, Renaissance and Baroque period, history of Polish music, source studies and palaeography. At the Institute of Musicology, University of Warsaw, she gave lectures on and classes in the history of European early music, history of Polish music, source and analytical studies, counterpoint and harmony classes, methodology of teaching music history. In the 1998/99 winter semester, she gave a series of monographic lectures on music history at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. In 2001–2007 she conducted practicals as part of the “Culture in action” specialisation at the Faculty of History, University of Warsaw.