Joanna Bruzdowicz (b. 1943) began to compose at the age of six and studied composition with Kazimierz Sikorski and piano with Irena Protasiewicz and Wanda Osakiewicz at the State Higher School of Music in Warsaw, where she received her M.A. in 1966. Shortly thereafter Bruzdowicz travelled on a scholarship from the French government to study with Nadia Boulanger, Oliver Messiaen and Pierre Schaeffer. While in Paris, she joined the electro-acoustic Groupe de Recherches Musicales and wrote her doctoral thesis Mathematics and Logic in Contemporary Music at the Sorbonne. After first sett… read more
Joanna Bruzdowicz (b. 1943) began to compose at the age of six and studied composition with Kazimierz Sikorski and piano with Irena Protasiewicz and Wanda Osakiewicz at the State Higher School of Music in Warsaw, where she received her M.A. in 1966. Shortly thereafter Bruzdowicz travelled on … read more
Joanna Bruzdowicz (b. 1943) began to compose at the age of six and studied composition with Kazimierz Sikorski and piano with Irena Protasiewicz and Wanda Osakiewicz at the State Higher School of Music in Warsaw, where she received her M.A. in 1966. Shortly thereafter Bruzdowicz travelled on a scholarship from the French government to study with Nadia Boulanger, … read more
