Employees

prof. dr hab.

Andrzej Miśkiewicz

acoustic

Andrzej Miśkiewicz was born in Warsaw. He completed his secondary education at Joachim Lelewel High School in Warsaw in 1974 and at the Chopin State Music School in Warsaw, where he obtained a diploma in piano performance in 1975. Between 1975 and 1980, he studied at the Department of Sound Engineering at the Chopin University of Music, earning a Master’s Degree with distinction in music, specializing in music recording. In 1984, he completed doctoral studies in music theory at the Chopin University of Music. In 1989, he defended his doctoral dissertation titled "Loudness Scaling of Musical Instrument Tones" at the Institute of Acoustics of Adam Mickiewicz University, under the guidance of Professor Andrzej Rakowski. In 2003, he earned a habilitation degree in humanities, in art history and musicology, from the Faculty of History at the University of Warsaw. In 2020, he was bestowed the title of Professor of Art by the decree of the President of the Republic of Poland.
Andrzej Miśkiewicz has been employed at UMFC since 1979, currently holding the position of professor. From 2004 to 2020, he served as the head of the Chair of Musical Acoustics. Since 2012, he has been the chairman of the University Electoral Commission. In 1982–1983, he undertook a four-month internship at the Music Department of the University of Surrey in England as a scholar of the British Council. From 1991 to 1995, he worked as a research associate at Northeastern University in Boston, USA.
He is a member of the Committee on Acoustics of the Polish Academy of Sciences and holds membership in various scientific societies, including the Polish Acoustical Society, the European Acoustics Association, the Acoustical Society of America, and the Audio Engineering Society. Since 2008, he has been the editor of the musical acoustics and psychoacoustics section of the quarterly journal Archives of Acoustics. In recognition of his academic pursuits, Andrzej Miśkiewicz has received numerous honours, including the Golden Cross of Merit, the UMFC Rector Grand Prix (2022), and the Minister of Culture and Arts Second Degree Award (1989). He has also been honoured with the First-Degree (1996 and 2012), the Second-Degree (1982 and 1998), and the Third-Degree Award (1984) from the Rector of the Chopin University of Music.
Andrzej Miśkiewicz teaches courses in fundamentals of hearing, fundamentals of acoustics, timbre solfege, master’s thesis seminar, and seminar on English-language specialist literature. In addition to his teaching responsibilities, he has provided guidance and supervision for four doctoral dissertations and 33 master’s theses. His research interests primarily focus on sound perception in music, sound quality assessment, and methodologies for enhancing musicians’ timbral hearing. He has participated as principal investigator or co-investigator in research projects funded by the National Science Centre, the Committee for Scientific Research, and the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. Additionally, he has led or been a member of expert teams conducting research on the acoustics of concert halls, commissioned by public institutions. He has authored over 70 publications in international scientific journals, monographs, and conference proceedings.
Selected publications:
A. Miśkiewicz, T. Rościszewska, J. Żera, J. Majer, B. Okoń-Makowska – Detection and recognition of environmental sounds by musicians and non–musicians. Archives of Acoustics 43, s. 581–592 (2018).
T. Rogala, A. Miśkiewicz, P. Rogowski – Identification of harmonic musical intervals: The effect of pitch register and tone duration. Archives of Acoustics 42, s. 591–600 (2017).
T. Łętowski, A. Miśkiewicz – Timbre Solfege: A course in perceptual analysis of sound. W: Signal Processing in Sound Engineering, J. Adamczyk (red.), s. 83–96. Warszawa: IPPT PAN (2013).
A. Miśkiewicz, A. Rakowski – A psychophysical pitch function determined by absolute magnitude estimation and its relation to the musical pitch scale. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 131, s. 987–992 (2012).
A. Miśkiewicz, T. Rogala, T. Rościszewska, T. Rudzki, T. Fidecki – Concert hall sound clarity: A comparison of auditory judgments and objective measures. Archives of Acoustics 37, s. 41–47 (2012).
A. Miśkiewicz, T. Rogala, J. Szczepańska–Antosik – Perceived roughness of two simultaneous harmonic complex tones. Archives of Acoustics 32, s. 737–748 (2007).
M. Ilkowska, A. Miśkiewicz – Sharpness versus brightness: A comparison of magnitude estimates. Acta Acustica united with Acustica 92, s. 812–819 (2006).
A. Miśkiewicz – Wysokość, głośność, barwa – badanie wymiarów wrażeniowych dźwięków muzycznych. Warszawa: AMFC (2002).
A. Miśkiewicz – Wymiary wrażeniowe dźwięku w kształceniu słuchu barwowego. W: Studia nad wysokością i barwą dźwięku w muzyce, A. Rakowski (red.), s. 155–169. Warszawa: AMFC (1999).
R. Hellman, A. Miśkiewicz, B. Scharf — Loudness adaptation and excitation patterns: Effects of frequency and level. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 101, s. 2176–2185 (1997).
A. Miśkiewicz, S. Buus, M. Florentine — Auditory facilitation: procedural or sensory effect? Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 96, s. 1429–1434 (1994).
A. Miśkiewicz, A. Rakowski — Loudness level versus sound pressure level: A comparison of musical instruments. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 96, s. 3375–3379 (1994).
A. Miśkiewicz — Timbre Solfege: A course in technical listening for sound engineers. Journal of the Audio Engineering Society 40, s. 621–625 (1992).