Studied at Poznan’s Academy of Music, also privately with Witold
Lutoslawski, who later became her mentor. In 1968, she received 3 Master of
Arts Degrees with distinction in composition, music theory, and percussion.
Early 70s, study in Paris with Boulanger and Messiaen, and the ORTF Center
(electronic music).

Moved to the U.S.A. in 1972. In 1974 she earned an Artist Diploma Degree
under a grant from the Cleveland Institute of Music and a scholarship from
the Kosciuszko Foundation in New York. At the Cleveland Institute she
studied with Cloyd Duff, Richard Weiner and Donald Erb.

Taught at many U.S. institutions, most recently: 1994 and 1996, Northwestern
University (composition and analysis of twentieth-century music), 1995,
composer-in-residence at the College Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati;
1997, visiting professor at the University of Chicago, then Professor of
Composition at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. Since 1998, University of Chicago.

(Contributed by David Payne <henry87@earthlink.net>.)