dr. bogusław raba

Education & interest

Education:

• Theory of Music (Academy of Music, Wrocław 2000)

• Organ (Academy of Music, Wrocław 2003)

• Organ Improvisation Studies (Amsterdam, 2006)

• Organ Master-class, Academy of Music, Katowice 2011

• Habilitation, Romantic organ fantasy in the music of Silesian composers, Academy of Music Kraków 2014

• Ph.D., Wroclaw University, 2008

• M.A., Academy of Music im. Karola Lipińskiego, Wrocław, 2003 (organ)

• M.A., Academy of Music im. Karola Lipińskiego, Wrocław, 2000 (theory of music)

• University of Wroclaw: Adjunct 2008-present

• Academy of Music (Wroclaw): Assistent 2000-2008

• University of Wroclaw: Assoc. Tutor 2003-2008

• Visiting Professor, University of Greifswald (Erasmus, 2016)

• KAAD Fellowship (11.2011-07.2012) – Research in Germany on the topic: The Organ Music of Silesia in XIX-th Century

• Grant for young researchers (internal: University of Wroclaw); Germany 2011.

• Grant (NPRH: The NationalProgram for the Developmentof the Humanities): the translation, edition and publishing in the PIASA in United States the book: Beetween Romanticism and Modernism. Compositional œvres of Ignacy Jan Paderewski.

• Fellowship of The Polish Science Foundation and The Warsaw Scientific Society for participation in the conference: Gregorian Chant and Modern Composition for the Catholic Liturgy: Charles Tournemire’s L’Orgue Mystique as Guide, Miami 1-3.02.2012.

• Award of the university rector, Wrocław 2013

• Award of the rector of the Academy of Music, Wrocław 2004

• First place for a master’s thesis at a national competition, Gdańsk 2002
• DAAD German language course, advanced level, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich 1999

• International Association for Semiotic Studies
• Association for Research and Preservation of Silesian Organs

• Orgue en France

• Association des Organists Romands

• Former deputy chairman of the “Opus Organi” Foundation (established for the reconstruction of the famous Michael Englers baroque organ of the St. Elisabeth Church (Basilica) in Wrocław)

• Former member of the Foundation for Church Music Archdiocese Breslau

• Former member of the Commission for Sacred Music of the Archdiocese of Wroclaw

• Member of the competition committee of the 25th Church Song Festival, Glogau 2017

• Former Member of the Institute of Silesian Music History

• Initiative and artistic direction of the concerts in the Glogau region (since 2018)

• The musical culture of the evangelical parishes in Wrocław. Shaping their tradition and musical ecumenism, Wrocław 2017

• International Concerence: Charles Tourmemire – Conference, Nova Southeastern University, Miami 2012.
• International Conference: The Aesthetic and Pedagogy of Charles Tournemire, Pittsburgh 2012.
• International Conference: „Chopin-Paderewski Conference”, Loyola University, Chicago 2010.

• II. International Conference: Analysis – history – theory and practice, Wrocław 2010.

• I. International Conference: Analysis – history – theory and practice, Wrocław 2008.

• International Conference on Music Semiotic, University of Edinburgh 2012.
• International Conferences: Silesian Traditions of Musical Culture, Academy of Music, Wroclaw, Wroclaw 2000-2008
• International Conferences: Karol Lipiński. Life – Work – Epoque, Academy of Music, Wroclaw 2000-2008

• The tonal-harmonic progression as an expression of the narrative archetype of mystical union in the works of Charles Tournemire and Alexander Scriabin – a comparative study, Res Facta Nova 2022

• Musical Cathedrals by Charles Tournemire – Deux Fresques Symphoniques Sacrées pour orgue, Op. 75 and 76, Liturgia Sacra. Liturgia Musica Ars, H. 53, 2019

• Franciscanism in the music of Charles Tournemire – “Sei fioretti pages d’orgue op. 60, Roczniki Humanistyczne 2019

• Franciscanism in the music of Charles Tournemire, Roczniki Teologiczne 2018

• Dialectics of Diatonicism and Chromatics in L’OrgueMystique by Charles Tournemire: Analysis and Interpretation of the Musical Language of the Work from the Perspective of Compositional Technique, Style and Aesthetics, [in:] The Mystic Modern. Charles Tournemire Music and Legacy, Richmond 2014

• Modernist inspirations in liturgical accompaniment and the so-called “church style”, in: Selected themes of liturgical accompaniment in the series: “Psalate synetos”, Volume 1., Wrocław 2012
• Harmonic analysis J.M. Chomiński’s, Academy of Music, Wrocław 2012.

• Raba B., Phenomenological Aspects of Harmony Theory, in: Analysis of a Musical Work. Historia-theoria-praxis, Academy of Music Wrocław 2009, pp. 97-110.

• Silesian organ music of the 19th century [in:] “Tradycje śląskiej kultury muzycznej”, Akademia Muzyczna, Wrocław 2010.] pp. 127-136.

• Music after Auschwitz. Cantata works of Tadeusz Natanson, Academy of Music Wrocław 2009, pp. 42-58

• Karol Rathaus’ Symphonies: Between the Music of Ruthless Confession and Conventionalism, In: “Music”, 2001, pp. 3-25

• The arrangements of the Protestant chorale in the Silesian organ music of the 19th century. Technical-compositional and stylistic aspects as well as their symbolic dimension, Conference: The musical culture of the evangelical parishes in Breslau. Shaping their tradition and musical ecumenism, Wrocław 2017
• Music theology by Charles Tournemire and Olivier Messiaen, Conference of the Polish Composers Associacion, Nysa 2013.
• Silesian organ music of the 19th century, Akademia Muzyczna, Wrocław 2010
• Musical latent-structures as a special type of (trans-)signs, University of Edinburgh 2012

• Dialectics of pandiatonism and chromaticism in L’Orgue Mystique by Charles Tournemire, Nova Southeastern University, Southeastern Nova University, Miami 2012

• Existential act of creative freedom or pursuit of organic masterpiece. Improvisations and written works by Charles Tournemire. Comparative Existential and Transcendental Analysis, The Aesthetic and Pedagogy of Charles Tournemire, Pittsburgh 2012.
• Modernist inspirations in liturgical accompaniment and the so-called “church style”, Wrocław 2012
• Harmonic analysis J.M. Chomiński’s, Academy of Music, Wrocław 2012.
• Phenomenological Aspects of Harmony Theory, in: Analysis of a Musical Work. Historia-theoria-praxis, Academy of Music Wrocław 2009
• Music after Auschwitz. Cantata works of Tadeusz Natanson, Academy of Music Wrocław 2009

• Fantasia silesiana (Ambiente, Germany 2012)

• TV recording The organ of the Legnica Cathedral (TVP, 2003)

• The Organ of the Divine Mercy Church in Glogau (DuoVox, Poland 2013)