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Violetta Kostka
Violetta Kostka was trained at the University of Poznań and received her Ph.D. from the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. She has won scientific scholarships from the Polish Library in Paris and the University of Cambridge and currently teaches Music History at the Academy of Music in Gdańsk. A member of the Polish Composers’ Union, she has authored more than 50 articles, mainly on musical life in eighteenth century Gdańsk, and the music of Polish composers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She has taken part in many conferences at home and abroad, including conferences in Greifswald, Leipzig and Frankfurt. Dr. Kostka headed a project entitled 'Tadeusz Zygfryd Kassern. Life and output' financed by the Committee of Scientific Research and is the co-editor of a forthcoming Lexicon of the XXth Century Culture of Pomerania.
She is currently completing a book entitled Tadeusz Kassern–composer, critic, teacher and organiser of musical life.