Danuta Gwizdalanka Author

Danuta Gwizdalanka

Musicologist

Danuta Gwizdalanka is a Polish musicologist. She is the author of textbooks, works on the social contexts of musical culture (gender, politics), chamber music (a guide to compositions and the history of performance practice) and biographies (of Witold Lutosławski, Mieczysław Weinberg, Karol Szymanowski).

Translated by

Halina Maria Boniszewska

Halina Maria Boniszewska was born in the UK to Polish parents. She studied at the universities of London, Oxford and Warwick, as well as the Intermediate Department at the Royal Academy of Music in London. She has translated (from Polish into English) Komeda: A Private Life in Jazz by Magdalena Grzebałkowska (Equinox, 2020), and Desperado: An Autobiography by Tomasz Stańko as told to Rafał Księżyk (Equinox, 2022). She has also translated a chapter from Ewa Winnicka’s Angole which has appeared in A Tale of Two Londons: Stories from a Fractured City, ed. Claire Armitstead, (OR Books) and Krystian Brodacki’s chapter on Polish Jazz in History of European Jazz (Equinox, 2018). In 2016 she translated a musical for International Catholic Youth Day in Krakow, based on the life and works of cleric and poet, Edmund Bojanowski.