Janina Fyk
Visiting Researcher, Music Psychology

Janina Fyk received a diploma in violin performance and M.A. degree in conducting and music education from the Academy of Music in Poznan, Poland. She earned the Ph.D. degree in Theory of Music from Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw and the Doctor Habilis degree in Musicology from the Institute of Arts at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. She has taught violin and conducted vocal and instrumental ensembles at the Institute of Music Education, Artistic Department of Pedagogy, University of Zielona Gora. In Poland she currently teaches aural skills and conducts monographic lectures, and M.A. and doctoral seminars in muic education. She also works as a research professor at the Fryderyk Copin Academy of Music.

Dr. Fyk is visiting UTSA's Institute for Music Research this year to pursue research on absolute pitch and relative pitch in music and its electrophysiological correlates. Her main areas of interest are psychoacoustics, music psychology, cognitive musicology and music education. She has published many articles in international journals and often appears as lecturer at national and international conferences. Her most important work, Melodic Intonation, Psychoacoustics, and the Violin, is devoted to problems concerning intonation in music, especially in performance on the violin.

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