Grażyna Bacewicz - Joanna Sendłak
Marriage and Recognition
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 takes up the position of first violinist in the Polish Radio Orchestra. She marries Dr Andrzej Biernacki. She performs the premiere of her Violin Concerto No. 1. Her Trio for Oboe, Violin and Cello wins second prize in The Association of Polish Music Publishers’ Competition, and the critic, Michał Kondracki, notes Bacewicz’s ‘many interesting ideas…freshness of invention…endearing sincerity in the way she expresses herself’.