80th birthday anniversary of composer Joanna Bruzdowicz-Tittel

On the 17^th of May, 2023, Joanna Bruzdowicz-Tittel would celebrate her 80^th birthday. The world-famous Polish composer died on the 3^rd of November 2021 in France, where she had been living and composing for 50 years. She was a tireless ambassador of Poland around the world....

Joanna Bruzdowicz was born 80 years ago, on the 17^th of May, 1943 in Warsaw. She composed her first work at the age of six. She graduated from the Warsaw State Higher School of Music. During her studies, she gave concerts in Belgium, Austria and Czechoslovakia. After receiving a Maurice Ravel scholarship from the French Government, in 1970, she began studying composition in Paris, among others with Nadia Boulanger.

In 2001, Joanna Bruzdowicz was honored with the Order of Polonia Restituta, and in 2013 she received the Gloria Artis Silver Medal for Merit to Culture.

After a note by Dobromiła Skalska