Employees

prof. dr hab.

Andrzej Miśkiewicz

acoustics

Andrzej Miśkiewicz was born in Warsaw, where he completed his secondary education at Joachim Lelewel High School in 1974 and graduated from the Chopin State Music School in 1975 with a diploma in piano performance. He subsequently studied at the Department of Sound Engineering at the Chopin University of Music (1975–1980), earning a Master’s Degree with distinction in music, specializing in music recording. He completed doctoral studies in music theory at the same institution in 1984. In 1989, he defended his doctoral dissertation, Loudness Scaling of Musical Instrument Tones, at the Institute of Acoustics of Adam Mickiewicz University under the supervision of Professor Andrzej Rakowski. In 2003, he earned a habilitation degree in the humanities (art history and musicology) from the Faculty of History at the University of Warsaw. In 2020, he received the title of Professor of Art by decree of the President of the Republic of Poland.

Andrzej Miśkiewicz has been affiliated with the Chopin University of Music since 1979 and currently holds the position of professor. From 2004 to 2020, he served as Head of the Chair of Musical Acoustics and has chaired the University Electoral Commission since 2012. His international experience includes a British-council funded four-month research internship at the Music Department of the University of Surrey (1982/1983) and an appointment as a research associate at Northeastern University in Boston, USA (1991-1995).

He is a member of the Committee on Acoustics of the Polish Academy of Sciences and is affiliated with leading professional organizations, including the Polish Acoustical Society, the European Acoustics Association, the Acoustical Society of America, and the Audio Engineering Society. Since 2008, he has served as associate editor of the musical acoustics and psychoacoustics section of the quarterly journal Archives of Acoustics. His academic achievements have been recognized with numerous distinctions, including the Golden Cross of Merit, the Rector’s Grand Prix of the Chopin University of Music (2022), and the Minister of Culture and Arts Second Degree Award (1989). He has also received multiple Rector’s Awards: First Degree (1996, 2012), Second Degree (1982, 1998), and Third Degree (1984).

Professor Miśkiewicz teaches courses in the fundamentals of hearing, fundamentals of acoustics, as well as graduate seminars. He has supervised four doctoral dissertations and 37 master’s theses. His research focuses on sound perception in music, sound quality assessment, and methods for developing musicians’ timbral hearing. He has led or contributed to numerous research projects funded by national scientific institutions and has participated in expert studies on concert hall acoustics commissioned by public bodies. He is the author of more than 80 publications in international journals, monographs, and conference proceedings.

Selected publications:

A. Miśkiewicz – Conceptual complexities of timbre in music and beyond. In: Sonic Art, Sound Perception, and Audio Engineering, A. Miśkiewicz i T. Rogala (Eds.), pp. 21–36. Warszawa: Chopin University Press (2024).

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, pp. 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, pp. 591–600 (2017).

T. Łętowski, A. Miśkiewicz – Timbre Solfege: A course in perceptual analysis of sound. In: Signal Processing in Sound Engineering, J. Adamczyk (Ed.), pp. 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, pp. 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, pp. 41–47 (2012).

A. Miśkiewicz, T. Rogala, J. Szczepańska–Antosik – Perceived roughness of two simultaneous harmonic complex tones. Archives of Acoustics, 32, pp. 737–748 (2007).

M. Ilkowska, A. Miśkiewicz – Sharpness versus brightness: A comparison of magnitude estimates. Acta Acustica united with Acustica, 92, pp. 812–819 (2006).

A. Miśkiewicz – Wysokość, głośność, barwa – badanie wymiarów wrażeniowych dźwięków muzycznych (Pitch, Loudness, and Timbre – A Study of Perceived Characteristics of Musical Sounds). Warszawa: Akademia Muzyczna im. Fryderyka Chopina (2002).

R. Hellman, A. Miśkiewicz, B. Scharf — Loudness adaptation and excitation patterns: Effects of frequency and level. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 101, pp. 2176–2185 (1997).

A. Miśkiewicz, S. Buus, M. Florentine — Auditory facilitation: procedural or sensory effect? Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 96, pp. 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, pp. 3375–3379 (1994).

A. Miśkiewicz — Timbre Solfege: A course in technical listening for sound engineers. Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, 40, pp. 621–625 (1992).