Faculty Biography

Zbigniew Granat, Assistant Professor


Contact:
(585) 389-2703
zgranat4@naz.edu

Departmental Responsibilities:
Musicology


Education:
Boston Univerisy, Ph.D.
Jagiellonian University, MA
State Conservatory of Music, Poland, Artist Diploma


Biography:
Zbigniew Granat studied musicology at Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland, and at Boston University, where he completed his doctoral dissertation on Open Form and the Work-Concept: Notions of the Musical Work after Serialism. His research interests include the history of twentieth-century music, musical aesthetics, the history of music theory, and jazz. He is the author of a book chapter on Boulez in Music and Literary Modernism: Critical Essays and Comparative Studies (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2006), and has published articles on classical music and jazz in RILM Perspectives,Down Beat, Jazz Forum, Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association, Jazz Research Papers, and Polish Review. Dr. Granat has delivered papers at conferences held in England, Belgium, Switzerland, and across the U.S. He has taught at Boston University, New England Conservatory of Music, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, and the Berkshire Community College.