[en:]dr Katarzyna Naliwajek

She completed her musicological studies at the Institute of Musicology, University of Warsaw, where she has been working since 2007. Her research interests encompass primarily twentieth-century and contemporary music, especially Polish music, analysis and aesthetics of music, as well as opera, and links between music and politics. In her research she focuses on the history of music in occupied Poland in 1939–45, including music in concentration camps and forgotten compositions. Since 2014 she has been carrying out a National Science Centre-financed project concerning this subject matter. Ordinary member of the Polish Composers’ Union, Board of the Witold Lutosławski Society (2004–2005; 2010–) and Repertoire Committee of the Warsaw Autumn International Festival of Contemporary Music (since 2011).

Her research has brought her many 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). She has been involved in a number of popularising projects, including the exhibition “Music in Occupied Poland. 1939-1945”, presented since 2010 in a number of German-speaking cities (Hamburg, Kiel, Berlin, Lüneburg, Görlitz, Peenemünde, Bregenz), as well as in Poland. It brought her the Hosenfeld/Szpilman Gedenkpreis from Leuphana Universität Lüneburg (2011). Her doctoral thesis “Konstanty Regamey’s oeuvre in the light of his aesthetic concepts” (written under the supervision of Prof. dr hab. Maciej Gołąb) won the Reverend 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.

In addition to numerous publications, 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, 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 a keynote speaker at the University of London, Royal Holloway (2016).