Grażyna Pstrokońska-Nawratil

Born in 1947, she is from Wrocław. She began her studies in composition under the supervision of Prof. Stefan B. Poradowski, and graduated from the class of Prof. Tadeusz Natanson at the State Higher School of Music (1971), where she subsequently took up a post. In 1978, as a French government scholarship holder, she attended lectures by Olivier Messiaen (Conservatoire) and Pierre Boulez (IRCAM) in Paris, as well as a seminar led by Iannis Xenakis in Aix-en-Provence. She was also an intern at the Studio for Experimental Music in Marseille.

In 1993, she was awarded the academic title of professor. Since 1977, she has been leading a composition class in Wrocław, and between 1998 and 2009 she also taught young composers at the Academy of Music in Poznań. Her graduates occupy a significant position in Polish contemporary music. From 1991 to 2017, she headed the Department of Composition and Music Theory (now the Department of Composition) at the Wrocław Academy of Music. She served on the Programme Committee of the Warsaw Autumn International Festival of Contemporary Music for four editions, and between 1996 and 2008 held the positions of programme adviser, manager and artistic director of the Musica Polonica Nowa Festival of Polish Contemporary Music.