Grażyna Bacewicz - Joanna Sendłak
Student Days: Warsaw and Paris
Grażyna Bacewicz - Joanna Sendłak
Joanna Sendłak [+]
Writer
Joanna Sendłak is the grand-daughter of Grażyna Bacewicz. She was born and studied in Warsaw - first painting at the Academy of Fine Arts, then philosophy at the University. She has exhibited paintings in Warsaw galleries, published stories in literary magazines and is the author of a number of novels, most recently The Dreamer of 76th Street (Nowy Świat, 2016), With Fire: Grażyna Bacewicz in Love on the Eve of War (Skarpa Warszawska, 2018) and Symphony of Stars (Skarpa Warszawska, 2019). Two volumes of her short stories were published by Fundacja Światło Literatury in 2019: Atotsi and Labirynt.
Description
Bacewicz enters the Warsaw Conservatoire. She studies violin (with Józef Jarzębski), piano (with Józef Turczyński) and composition (again with Kazimierz Sikorski). The liveliness, momentum and originality of her compositional style are noted. She goes to Paris to study composition with Nadia Boulanger and advanced violin with André Touret, and later with Carl Flesch. Her Wind Quintet wins first prize in a competition in Paris.