Maja Trochimczyk is a Californian music historian, writer

Writer

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 and poet

Poet

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 of Polish

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 descent. She published three poetry books (Rose Always,2008; Miriam’s Iris, 2008; and an anthology Chopin with Cherries, 2010) and four books of music studies (After Chopin: Essays in Polish Music; The Music of Louis Andriessen; Polish Dance in California; and A Romantic Century in Polish Music). Her poems and photographs appear in numerous journals and anthologies, including: Clockwise Cat, Ekphrasis, Epiphany Magazine, Loch Raven Review, Magnapoets, Quill and Parchment, Phantom Seed, poeticdiversity, Sage Trail, San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly, Poetry Super Highway, The Huston Literary Review, and other venues. She also wrote hundreds of articles and book chapters on music and culture that were published in The Musical Quarterly

The Musical Quarterly

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, American Music

American Music

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, Journal of Musicological Research, Muzyka, Computer Music Journal

Computer Music Journal

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, Leonardo Music Journal, Polish Music Journal, Lutoslawski Studies, The Age of Chopin, Polish American Encyclopedia, Studia Musicologica, Tempo and other venues. A recipient of fellowships/awards from McGill University

McGill University

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, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, University of Southern California

University of Southern California

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, Polish American Historical Association, and American Council of Learned Societies

American Council of Learned Societies

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, Dr. Trochimczyk now serves as poet laureate of Sunland-Tujunga, Los Angeles

Sunland-Tujunga, Los Angeles

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for 2010-2010, officer and board member of the Polish American Historical Association, officer of Ethnomusicology Study Group of the American Musicological Association, and president of Helena Modjeska Art and Culture Club in Los Angeles.

Books by Maja Trochimczyk

• Chopin with Cherries: A Tribute in Verse. Poetry anthology (Los Angeles: Moonrise Press, 2010). ISBN 978-0-9819693-0-5.
• A Romantic Century in Polish Music. Edited volume of music studies. (Los Angeles: Moonrise Press, 2009). ISBN 978-0-9819693-3-6 (paperback).
• Rose Always - A Court Love Story. Poetry collection. (Los Angeles: Moonrise Press, 2008). ISBN 978-0-615-26362-5 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-9819693-4-3 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-9819693-1-2 (with color photographs).
• Miriam's Iris, or Angels in the Garden. Poetry collection. (Los Angeles: Moonrise Press, 2008). ISBN 978-0-9819693-2-9 (with color photographs), ISBN 978-0-578-00166-1 (paperback).
• Polish Dance in Southern California. In East European Monographs series. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007). ISBN 978-0-88033-593-5.
• The Music of Louis Andriessen. Edited volume of music studies and interviews. (New York and London: Routledge, 2002). ISBN 978-0815337898.
• After Chopin: Essays in Polish Music. Edited volume of music studies and translations. (Los Angeles: Polish Music Center at USC, 2000). ISBN 0-916545-05-9.

Further reading

• Bloch, Gregory W. "The Problem with Andriessen." Echo VI/2. 2004.
• Dutka, Elaine. "How USC Nabbed the Great Górecki," Los Angeles Times, 1 October 1997.
• Guzlowski, John Z. Review of Chopin with Cherries: A Tribute in Verse in The Cosmopolitan Review 2 no. 1 (Spring 2010).
• Harsh, Ed. Review of The Music of Louis Andriessen (2002), in Notes, Music Library Association Quarterly, 60, no. 1 (September 2003): 160-162.
• Inglis, Jadwiga. "Kompozytorka Joanna Bruzdowicz w Los Angeles," The Summit Times (January 2004), Wirtualna Polonia (January 2004).
• Inglis, Jadwiga. "Pięc tysięcy stron o muzyce. Rozmowa z Mają Trochimczyk," [Five thousand pages about music. An interview with Maja Trochimczyk]. Interview in Polish, in News of Polonia (March 2004), The Summit Times (February 2004), and Głos/Voice (April 2004), reprinted in Bialy Orzel/White Eagle (May 2007).
• Kanski, Elizabeth. "A Tribute to Chopin in Verse," review of Chopin with Cherries: A Tribute in Verse in Polish American Journal, September 2010, p. 21.
• Makowski, Jenna. Review of Polish Dance in Southern California in Journal of Folklore Research, November 2008.
• Thomas, G. Murray. Review of Miriam's Iris, or Angels in the Garden in Poetix.net, February 2010.