dr hab. Tomasz Baranowski

A graduate of the Białystok Branch of the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music (in Prof. Juliusz Borzym’s piano class) and Institute of Musicology, University of Warsaw, he completed his music studies in 1989 and musicological studies in 1990. In 2001 he obtained his doctoral degree at the Faculty of History, University of Warsaw (on the basis of the thesis “The aesthetics of musical expressionism. On the history of the artistic doctrine of the Viennese School”; thesis supervisor – Prof. dr hab. Zofia Helman). He has been working at the Institute of Musicology, University of Warsaw, since 2002. He teaches music theory, music education theory and methodology of teaching music history and musical analysis; in addition, he is the tutor of the Institute students specialising in pedagogy. His research interests focus on issues relating to the aesthetics of music in an interdisciplinary context as well as the contents and methods of music pedagogy in artistic and general education.

Dr hab. Baranowski’s currently researches the musical poetics of Alexander Skriabin as well as the philosophical, aesthetic and psychological determinants of the composer’s oeuvre.