Position: Teacher
Education: Belarusian State Academy of Music: 2006 – class of professor Catherine Doulova; 2011 – postgraduate degree course (research advisor – Catherine Doulova).
Courses taught: music analysis, foreign musical literature
Aleksandra Makarova worked as a teacher at the Music Theory Department from 2008 to 2018. She gave classes in solfeggio, music analysis, polyphony, music theory, score reading. In 2011-2014 she was the head of the Student Scientific and Creative Society. In 2012 and 2013 she held the position of acting head of the International Relations Department.
Research interests: contemporary art, Polish musical culture of the 20th – 21st centuries, the works of Krysztof Penderecki.
She did a research internship at the Krakow Academy of Music (2007-2008, “Scholarships for Young Scientists”) under the supervision of Dr. Mieczysław Tomaszewski. In 2012 she had an internship at the Chopin Music University in Warsaw, Poland under the supervision of Prof. Jagna Dankowska. In 2014 she won a scholarship from the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage “Gaude Polonia” program, which was implemented at the Krzysztof Penderecki European Centre for Music (Lusławice, Poland).
Aleksandra Makarova was a concerts, competitions and conferences co-organizer and presenter. She was the organizing committee member of the harmony competition in memory of T.Leshchenya, concert/fugue competition among musicology and composition students, “Knowledge Contest about the life and work of Prof. Krzysztof Penderecki” (dedicated to the 80th anniversary of his birth) at the Krzysztof Penderecki European Centre for Music (Luszlawica, Poland 2014), student conferences held during the International Scientific Conference in memory of L.Muharinskaya and others.
Some concerts, competitions, and conferences were co-organized and presented by Aleksandra Makarova. She served on the organizing committees for the T.Leshchenya Harmony Competition, the concert/fugue competition for musicology and composition students, the “Knowledge Contest about the Life and Work of Prof. Krzysztof Penderecki” (dedicated to the 80th anniversary of his birth), the student conferences held during the International Scientific Conference in memory of L.Muharinskaya, and other events
She has been awarded a Certificate of Merit from the Belarusian State Academy of Music (2006), a Laureate Diploma of the European Festival of Music Academies (Warsaw, Poland, 2013), Diploma of the Association for Intellectual property Protection “BelBrand” (Minsk, 2013). She currently works as a teacher in the preparatory department of the Belarusian State Academy of Music.
