Musicologist, specialist in Polish literature, culture manager, academic since 1983; graduated both in polish philology (MA 1981) and musicology (MA 1988) and obtained the Ph.D. diploma at the Jagiellonian University in 1994; the Jagiellonian University lecturer (various positions) since 1983, at the moment – professor in the Institute of Musicology, Department of History (JU), main interests: (Polish) music culture, culture management, music criticism, music in film.

He prepared and ran various academic projects such as:

• multimedia data-base presentation at the The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) conference (Kraków, 1991) in cooperation with the Western Norway Research Centre in Bergen,
• Executive Director, author and implementer of the music part of the European Cultural Month festival (Kraków, 1992),
• conference and festival of arts Nations and Stereotypes (in the ICC Foundation – 1993).
• project of the Meeting of Krakowians (as the representative of the Mayor of The City of Kraków – 1994),
• Co-founder of the Polish Society of Early Music (PTMD, 1994–1996 – President),
• Administrator and Contractor of European Projects (TEMPUS JEN and TEMPUS JEP 3349 Creating of MBM Study System in Musicology – 1995–2011),
• Co-founder, lecturer and Deputy Director of the School of Cultural Management at the Faculty of Management and Communication of the UJ (1997–2001),
• project creator and implementer of the celebration of the 600^th Anniversary of the Renewal of the Cracow Academy (UJ – 1998–2001),
• preparation and implementation of the succeeding editions of the Science Festival in Kraków (2000–2004)
• establishment and operation of the UJ Information and Promotion Centre (2001–2006), later the Head of the UJ Information and Promotion Office (2006–2012)
• preparation and implementation of Academic Meetings with Europe (2003)
• preparation and implementation of the EAIE Congress, Kraków 2005,
• coordination and participation in the query action within the framework of the Ministry of Higher Education Project Heritage of Polish Music Of the Cutting Period conducted by The Fryderyk Chopin Institute and Polish Music Edition; collecting information about the music sources of the Polish period 1772–1918 in libraries and foreign archives, 2022 – co-founder and head of the newly established Centre for Research on Music Multimediality at the Institute of Musicology of the Jagiellonian University.
• 2023–2025 co-ordination of the International Erasmus+ Project Incubating Freedom for Ukraine – building IT competence among Ukrainian war refugees residing in EU countries.

He has repeatedly served as a visiting professor in the United States (Eastman School of Music – University of Rochester, NY; Rutgers University, NJ; Indiana University, IN) and Ukraine (Boris Grinchenka University in Kiev, Lviv National University of Ivan Franki). Currently, he also lectures at the AGH University of Technology in Kraków (as part of the University's Database of Elective Subjects). He has also been involved in publishing for years and co-founded Musica Iagellonica edition company (1993), also busy in the field of music editions (I.J. Paderewski Opera Omnia, music of Polish baroque).

Since 2007 W. Marchwica is beeing collaborating with “Perspektywy” Education Foundation – preparing various educational projects and coordinating the Study in Poland action. He was nominated the Deputy Director of the Fryderyk Chopin Institute on the 1^st December 2012 (till 2017).

in the field of musicology and management in higher education. The selection:

2025

• 5^th International Rast Music Congress (IRMC); Priştina (hybrid), November 29-30; key-note speech A The rock music in Poland in the 1980s – a forerunner of cultural changes after the collapse of the Soviet system in Poland.
• Scientific conference Modern Problems of Management 2025; Kiev, September 25^th 2025; presentation Psychological problems of immigrants – the Polish/Ukrainian example.
• Women in Tech Summit 2025; Warsaw, June 12^th 2025; session Incubating Freedom for Ukraine – chair and presentation Incubating Freedom for Ukraine Education – the first aid for immigrants… – on the margins of the IFU project.
• International interdisciplinary conference Postcolonial Situation in the Arts after the Collapse of the Soviet Union: Experience, Impact, Reassessment; Riga, April 10 – 12; presentation Rock music in Poland in the 1980s.

2024

• Women in Tech Summit 2024 – Ukrainian Zone; Warsaw June 12^th 2024; presentation Incubating Freedom for Ukraine – European Scale (Erasmus+).
• The conference Humaniści, erudyci, odkrywcy…[ Humanists, erudites, explorers…] April 17^th-18^th April, F. Nowowiejski Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz; presentation Ignacy Jan Paderewski – pianista, kompozytor czy popularyzator; spóźniona salonka rudowłosego mistrza…[Ignacy Jan Paderewski – pianist, composer and populariser; an overdue train saloon wagon of the red-haired master…].
• Conference Duchowość w muzyce – muzyka w duchowości [Spirituality in Music - Music in Spirituality] April 23^rd-24^th April, K. Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław; presentation Muzyka jako korona sztuk [Musica – corona aurea].
• International conference Driving Economic Recovery: Scaling Digital Education Experiences in Higher Education Institutions Sept. 19^th-20^th, 2024; National Technical University of Ukraine Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute UA; presentation Challenges and Opportunities for Migrations into Europe - the case of IFU project as the pattern.
• Co-author of the concept and implementer of the international scientific conference (within the CRM²) Hortus musicus – Hortus artium; multidisciplinary seminar; Kraków, Center for Research on Music Multimediality Institute of Musicology JU, 11^th-12^th Sept. 2024; presentation Paradise music – music in Paradise.
• 4^th International Rast Music Congress (IRMC) Transcultural Music Antalya, Turkey Nov. 30^th to Dec.1^st, 2024; key-note speech A musical vision of the world of angels – exemplary of acoustic scenery design in film music.

2022

• International conference Creare et cantare organized by the University of Opole (Opole 4^th April 2022) with the presentation Specificity of vocal style in the cultural context of the 19th and 20th centuries.
• Co-author of the concept and implementer of the international scientific conference (within the CRM²) Musical multimedia as a keystone of artistic manifestations in the 20^th-21^st century Europe (31^st Aug.-2^nd Sept.), which gathered speakers from 8 countries; the rudimentary presentation entitled Musical Multimediality… as a keystone of artistic manifestations.

2019

• International Conference 3^rd International Conference “Music and Sound Design in Film and New Media. Soundscapes and Immersive Sound” organized by the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre (Vilnius, 12^th-15^th Sept.) with a presentation When One Wants Too Much ... Common Mistakes While Creating a Movie Soundtrack.

2018

• Scientific Conference Ukraine – Polish Dialogue of Cultures of Kiev, organized by the Representation of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Kiev and the National Academy of Music them. Tchaikovsky (April 19-21) with a paper Использование классических музыковедчес Метод в анализе кинематографической музыки additionally guest lecture at the University of B. Grenchenka.

2017

• Professional Art Education and Artistic Culture Conference: Challenges of the XXI Century organized by Киевский Университет имени Бориса Гринченко with the paper Methods of the music popularization among children, Kiev, 30^th-31^st March.
• Conference organized by the Patent Office of the Republic of Poland Protection of the image of Fryderyk Chopin with the paper Solutions for Regulating the use of Chopin's image adopted by the Fryderyk Chopin National Institute, (session 2 Protection of the image of cultural icons); Warsaw, 24^th April.
• Participation in the organizing committee and participation in the conference Music Across Media: Functions, Convergence, Meaning (organized by Facta Ficta Research Centre and TFCI) with the paper Music as Film character. Krzysztof Kieślowski “Blue”, Warsaw 21^st-22^th April.
• Conference organized by the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre (Lietuvos Muzikos Ir Teatro Akademija) and GEECT, Music and Sound Design in Film and New Media. When Theory meets Practice with Symbolic and Transcendental Elements in Zbigniew Preisner's Film Music, Vilnius, September 28^th-29^th.
• Participation in the Organizing Committee and co-lead of the symposium Around the figure of Ferdinand Hoesick on the 150^th anniversary of his birth , UJ, Kraków, October 23^rd.

2016

• International Scientific Conference Lyric and vocal element in instrumental music of the nineteenth century (Radziejowice, 16^th -18^th September) – a paper Songs from the comedy opera Seven times one by L. Dmuszewski and J. Elsner as an exemplary example of the popularization of comedians in the first half of the XIX century.
• Base conditions and benefits related to participation and the cooperation within the Chopin Competitions' Conference – a paper during the “The Second Meeting of the Organizers of Chopin Piano Competitions”, Warsaw/Radziejowice 20^th -22^nd Sept.

2015

• Music scenography. “Utopia” vs. “Arcadia” in “The Lord of the Rings” directed by Peter Jackson international conference His Master's Voice: Utopias & Dystopias in Audiovisual Culture, Kraków March 23^rd-26^th.
• Presentation of Polish Program of long-term supporting the Chopin Competitions Worldwide. Chopin Competitions Conference Radziejowice 21^st-23^rd April.
• Bach-Liszt-Reger ostinato techniques – introductory lecture to the concert of the Polish Bach Society on June 28th, (Church of St. Martin in Cracow); public lectures provided at least once a year till present during the concert of the Polish Bach Society.
• Ignacy Jan Paderewski – a brilliant artist or one of the first PR specialists International conference Poles among other nations. Reminiscences and influences in cultural heritage; UAM Kalisz September 10^th-11^th.
• TFCI materials as the basis for the popularization of music – papers at conferences of the Polish Association of Educators and Music Animators, Łódź Oct. 10^th, and Zamość Oct. 26^th, 2015.

As part of the popularization of science Wojciech M. Marchwica introduced to Kraków the custom of organizing annual Science Festivals (since 2000). He prepared and conducted numerous presentations of Polish higher education during meetings and conferences accompanying trade fairs and promotional activities of Polish universities abroad, in: Minsk, Kiev, Odes, Almaty, Lviv, Beijing, Shanghai, Harbin – e.g. implementation of the Seminar Study in Poland as part of education Expo 2009 and 2011 in China.

In the field of musicology:

• The national style of music by Ignacy Jan Paderewski : late romanticism or eclecticism Musica Iagellonica Kraków 2004 No. 3, pp. 215-228.
• Słownik muzyki [Music dictionary] edit./author Marchwica Wojciech, Kraków : Wydawnictwo Zielona Sowa 2006; Available at: https://ruj.uj.edu.pl/xmlui/handle/item/306852.
• Stylistic Variability in Kaspar Förster's Pieces for Three Voices [at] Musica Baltica. The Music Culture of Baltic Cities in Modern Times Academy of Music in Gdańsk. Special Works 80, Gdańsk 2010.
• Bachowskie nawiązania do chorału “Christ lag in Todesbanden” [Bach's references to the chorus “Christ lag in Todesbanden”] [in:] Music is always contemporary. Dedicated studies Professor Alicja Jarzębska red. Małgorzata Woźna-Stankiewicz, Andrzej Sitarz, Musica Iagellonica, Kraków 2011, pp. 463-490.
• Sarmatization of the Polish Christmas carol – posthumous success of the Jagiellonian dynastic ideology, [in:] Materials from the conference “Musical heritage of the Jagiellonian era” National Library, Musica Iagellonica 2012 No. 6, pp. 71-81.
• Internationalizing Polish Universities – a Challenge,[at:] «Les universités en Europe centrale 20 ans après» vol. 1 Transformationes et enjeux, Bruylant, Bruxelles 2011, p. 111-123.
• Culture of minorities – way towards Europeization in Polish HEIs (case of musicology), [at:] Management de la diversité culturelle : quels enjeux en Europe? / The Management of Cultural Diversity: what are the Stakes in Europe? Thierry Côme, Ludmila Meskova, Bruylant Bruxelles 2012; pp. 195-221.
• Musical education on university level – history of musical practice as the basic element of understanding music history [at:] «Modern musical education: traditions, innovation, modernization prospects», Almaty, 2012, pp. 193-198.
• Le destin global des chants de Noël locaux [at:] Productions et perceptions des créations culturelles L'Harmattan, ed. Helena Balintova, Janka Palkova, Paris 2012, ISBN 978-2-296-96844-8; pp. 139-155.
• Pastgraduate Studies for Pianists – A Path for Artistic Mastery, [at:] Професійна мистецька освіта і художня культура: виклики ХХI століття, Київ ун-т ім. Б. Грінченка, Київ 2014, p.105-115.
• Wanda Landowska : prekursorka wykonawstwa historycznego [Wanda Landowska – forerunner of historical performance], [in:] The role and contribution of Poles to the creation of cultural heritage of other peoples, ed. S. Kowalska, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poznań-Kalisz 2014, p. 50-63.
• The musical tradition of Central European intangible heritage chapter in post conference monograph The limits of heritage : the 2^nd Heritage Forum of Central Europe, Kraków, ICC 2015; ISBN 978-83-63463-32-8; pp. 674-686.
• Kolędy polskie na tle podobnych pieśni europejskich [Polish Carols against the background of similar European songs] chapter in the monograph Imponderabilia protection of cultural heritage; Poznań-Kalisz, AAM 2015; ISBN 978-83-941350-1-0, pp. 132-146.
• Wykonawstwo historyczne : ideologia czy powinność?, [Historically informed performance : ideology or obligation?] [in:] M. Woźna-Stankiewicz, Z. Fabiańska, and A. Sitarz (eds) Almanach muzykologii krakowskiej : 1911-2011. Kraków : Musica Iagellonica 2016, pp. 442–464. Available at: http://ruj.uj.edu.pl/xmlui/handle/item/33458.
• Songs from the comedy opera “Seven times one” by Ludwik Adam Dmuszewski and Józef Elsner as a prime example of the popularisation of comedy operas during the first half of the nineteenth century, [w:] The lyric and the vocal element in instrumental music of the nineteenth century, ed. Stępień-Kutera Kamila, Warsaw: The Fryderyk Chopin Institute, 2017, p. 293-327 [1,74 ark.].
• Methods of the music popularization among children as the important factor of fighting against the mcdonaldisation of global culture Музичне мистецтво в освітологічному дискурсі No. 2, 2017, p. 14-24 [1.25 ark.]. ORCID id 0000-0002-4949-8722.
• Witt, M., Szklener, A., Carrot, W., Dobosz, T., Marchwica, W. Disease not genetic but infectious: multiple tuberculomas and fibrinous pericarditis as symptoms pathognomonic for tuberculosis of Frederic Chopin (2018) “Journal of Applied Genetics”, 59 (4), pp. 471-473. DOI: 10.1007/s13353-018-0456-3.
• Witt, M., Szklener, A., Kawecki, J., Rużyłło, W., Negrusz-Kawecka, M., Deer, M., Langfort, R., Marchwica, W., Dobosz, T. A Closer Look at Frederic Chopin's Cause of Death (2018) “American Journal of Medicine”, 131 (2), pp. 211-212. DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2017.09.039.
• Musical scenery : Utopia vs. Arcadia in “The lord of the rings” (dir. Peter Jackson), Musica Iagellonica, 2018 No. 9, pp. 127–142. Available at: https://ruj.uj.edu.pl/xmlui/handle/item/281517.
• Wojciech M. Marchwica Józef Elsner in the writings of Ferdinand Hoesick [at] Ferdinand Hoesick jr. Studies ed. M. Woźna-Stankiewicz, Musica Iagellonica, Kraków 2020, pp. 150-166.
• Dwudziestowieczna wizja miłości romantycznej na przykładzie „Czterech sonetów miłosnych do słów Williama Szekspira” Tadeusza Bairda.” [A Twentieth-Century vision of romantic love on the example of “Four love sonnets to words by William Shakespeare” by Tadeusz Baird] [in:] Muzykolog humanista wobec doświadczenia muzyki w kulturze : księga pamiątkowa dedykowana Profesor Małgorzacie Woźnej-Stankiewicz, edited by Zofia Fabiańska and Magdalena Dziadek, 375–91. Kraków : Musica Iagellonica, 2021. https://ruj.uj.edu.pl/xmlui/handle/item/276260.
• Specyfika stylistyki wokalizy w kontekście kulturowym XIX i XX wieku [The specificity of the “vocalise” in the cultural context of the 19^th and 20^th centuries] [in:] Creare et cantare. 2, edited by Ewelina Szendzielorz and Andrzej Prasał, 195–211. Opole : Wydawnictwo Sindruk-DIMK, 2022. https://ruj.uj.edu.pl/xmlui/handle/item/304694.

Source releases:

• I.J. Paderewski Suite and Overture (Dzieła wszystkie I.J. Paderewski, p. 10), Musica Iagellonica Publishing House, Kraków 1997.
• Kotowicz Pasja, source edition with commentary, Musica Iagellonica, Kraków 1999.

In the field of higher education management:

• International students in Poland 2010. Statistical and information report prepared as part of the Study in Poland programme, Fundacja Edukacyjna “Perspektywy”, Warsaw 2011, 64 p.; ISBN 978-83-61239-24-6.
• International students in Poland 2011. Statistical and information report prepared as part of the "Study in Poland" programme, Fundacja Edukacyjna “Perspektywy”, Warsaw 2011; ISBN 978-83-61239-24-6; pp. 64.
• International students in Poland 2012. Statistical and information report prepared as part of the "Study in Poland" programme, Fundacja Edukacyjna “Perspektywy”, Warsaw 2012; ISBN 978-83-61239-17-8; pp. 76.
• International students in Poland 2013. Statistical and information report (together with B. Siwińska) Publisher Fundacja Edukacyjna “Perspektywy”, Warsaw 2013; ISBN 978-83-61239-21-5; pp. 88.
• International Visibility Project. University Ranking Audit. First part 2019 and Second part 2020 (with W. Siwiński). Publisher Educational Perspectives Foundation, Warsaw 2019; pp. 64, Warsaw 2021; pp. 96.
• Rola edukacji muzycznej we współczesnym systemie nauczania [The Role of Music Education in the Contemporary Education System] Zarządzanie w kulturze (Zeszyt jubileuszowy dedykowany Profesorowi Emilowi Orzechowskiemu) 2024, No. 25(2–3), pp. 383–398 https://doi.org/10.4467/20843976ZK.24.031.20149; www.ejournals.eu/czasopismo/zarzadzanie-w-kulturze.
• The Strategy for Ukrainian Refugees through Education in IT and 4.0 Industry Area, Suitable for Implementation in All EU Countries; S. Bojarczuk (editor), W. M. Marchwica, O. Akimova, M. Frankowska, M. Hromada, J.Tamás; Publisher Educational Perspectives Foundation, Warsaw 2025, ISBN: 978-93-61239-50-5; www.ifu-edu.eu/strategy/.