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Marta Ptaszynska

Marta Ptaszyńska (born 29 July 1943) is a Polish composer, percussionist and professor of music at the University of Chicago. She has been described by the Polish Music Center of the University of

Marta Ptaszyńska (born 29 July 1943) is a Polish composer, percussionist and professor of music at the University of Chicago. She has been described by the Polish Music Center of the University of Southern California as “one of the best known Polish woman composers” as well as “a virtuoso percussionist specializing in performances of contemporary music”. Career Ptaszyńska was born in Warsaw, Poland. In 1998, she was appointed a Professor of Music and the Humanities at the University of Chicago. Since 2005 she holds an endowed chair of Helen B. & Frank L. Sulzberger Professor in Composition. She has been honored with many prizes and awards including Simon J. Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, the Danks Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Fromm Music Foundation Award, the Award at the International Rostrum of Composers at the UNESCO in Paris, several ASCAP Awards, and many more. In 1995, she received the Officer Cross of Merit of the Republic of Poland. Works Orchestral music Vocal and instrumental works Chamber music Instrumental and solo works Multimedia works Music for children Books *Ptaszynska, Marta & Niewiadomska, Barbara; Colorful World of Percussion (1978)

Era
Post-War
Lived
1943–present
From
Poland
Born in
Warsaw
Known as
composer, music educator, university teacher, music arranger, drummer, docent
Instruments
drum kit

Contemporaries

Composers of the same nationality whose working lives overlapped — computed across all 11,984 dated composers in this library, not taken from any single article.