Maja Trochimczyk

Dr. Maja Trochimczyk is a poet, music historian, and non-profit director born in Poland, educated in Canada, and living in California (www.trochimczyk.net). She published four books of music studies (After Chopin: Essays in Polish Music, USC, 2000; The Music of Louis Andriessen, Routledge 2002, Polish Dance in California, Columbia University Press, 2007; and A Romantic Century in Polish Music, Moonrise Press, 2009), and hundreds of peer-reviewed and popular articles, essays, entries, CD liner notes, and interviews, on music and culture. Her research studies on composers Bacewicz, Brant, Chopin, Lutoslawski, Paderewski, Xenakis, as well as music ecology, women composers, space in music and other topics appeared in American Music, Computer Music Journal, Leonardo, Musical Quarterly, Muzyka, Journal of Musicological Review, Tempo, etc. Her two books of poetry are illustrated with her own photographs (Rose Always and Miriam’s Iris, Moonrise Press, 2008). She also edited an anthology called Chopin with Cherries: A Tribute in Verse (Moonrise Press, 2010), celebrating the 200th birth anniversary of this composer with 123 poems by 92 poets. Her poems appeared in many chapbooks by a Pasadena group Poets on Site, as well as in the Clockwise Cat, Magnapoets, Quill and Parchment, Ekphrasis Journal, Loch Raven Review, poeticdiversity, San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly, and various anthologies. Her photographs were selected by The Huston Literary Review and poeticdiversity. A former director of the Polish Music Center at USC, Dr. Trochimczyk has recently been elected Poet Laureate of Sunland-Tujunga for 2010-2012.