dr Dominika Micał
Doctor of music theory, music critic; assistant at the Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music in Krakow, where she teaches, among others, the analysis of 20th-century and contemporary music and early music history
She is primarily interested in vocal and vocal-instrumental works, especially those of the 20th and 21st centuries, although often associated with early music – such as contemporary opera pasticcio and madrigal – the post-1950 incarnations of which her doctoral dissertation was focused on (written under the supervision of dr hab. Małgorzata Janicka-Słysz, prof. AMKP, and awarded a distinction in the Prof. Hieronim Feicht Competition and published as: Aktualność madrygału w twórczości kompozytorów drugiej połowy XX i początku XXI wieku. Perspektywa genologiczna [The Relevance of Madrigal in the Works by Composers of the Second Half of the 20th and the Beginning of the 21st Century. A Genre Perspective]). Her second area of interest is British music. She has so far written on Harrison Birtwistle, Jonathan Harvey, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gustav Holst, among others.
From 2018 to 2022, she participated in the Polish-Lithuanian research project DAINA 1. Music of Change: Expression of Liberation in Polish and Lithuanian Music Before and After 1989, funded by the National Science Centre. As part of the project, she published articles on Elżbieta Sikora’s engaged electronic music, Zygmunt Mycielski’s song cycles to the poems of Zbigniew Herbert and Czesław Miłosz, and on student meetings in Baranów Sandomierski and Sandomierz organised by Krzysztof Droba.
Her articles have been published in “Res Facta Nova”, “New Sound”, “Interdisciplinary Studies in Musicology” and “Scontri”, among others. She has participated in musicological and music theoretical conferences in centres such as Cambridge, Edinburgh, Huddersfield, Barcelona, Rome, Stavanger and Oslo.
She is also active music critic (e.g. for “Ruch Muzyczny”, where she was also an editor for several years) and writes for festivals and music institutions. Together with dr Karolina Dąbek, she runs the blog pisanezesluchu.pl.