Born in 1957, composer, music theorist and teacher. A graduate of and professor at the Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, she holds the Polish state title of professor of musical arts. She has also lectured as a guest at the George Enescu National University of Arts in Iași, International Theatre Institute in Munich, Manuel Castillo Conservatorio Superior de Música in Seville, Universidad de Chile in Santiago, Instituto de Música, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso; A. V. Nezhdanova National Academy of Music in Odesa, and National Academy of Culture and Arts Management in Kyiv.
Since 2002 she has been a member of the Polish Phonographic Academy, the voting body for the Fryderyk Awards. From 2009 to 2015 she was Secretary General of the Polish Composers’ Union and has served continuously on its Presidium since then.
Her music has been performed throughout Poland and across Europe, North and South America, and Asia. It is represented on thirteen CDs and one DVD. The album Polish Contemporary Choral Music, which includes her Błogosławiony from the cantata Afirmacje, received a Fryderyk nomination in 2001. In 2012, New Polish Music for Choir, featuring her Veni. Illumina. Gloria, won the Fryderyk for Contemporary Music Album of the Year. A prizewinner in numerous Polish and international composition competitions, Gronau has written more than 120 works. As a music theorist, she has more than fifty publications to her name, including five books, and has delivered more than eighty papers on creative approaches to teaching, music-and-movement analysis, compositional technique and contemporary music.
Selected works: (since 2015): Lapidaria II for soprano and alto saxophones (2015), Five Thought Provocations for soprano and string quartet, to words by Krzysztof Bilica (2016), Soundfield for soprano saxophone and string quartet (2016), Trois fresques maritimes sur les paroles originales de l’auteur for two sopranos, two violins, and symphony orchestra, hommage à Tadeusz Paciorkiewicz (2016), Multidramma nelle parole dell’autore con l’improvvisazione nello stile della commedia dell’arte for clarinet / bass clarinet, soprano, Yamaha Disklavier (MIDI piano), string quartet and double bass (2016), Dedication for soprano, flute and string quartet, for Władysław Słowiński (2017), Winter is icumen in IV for soprano saxophone and piano (2017), Accipe animam meam for organ (2017), Non-existent Street for saxophone quartet (2017), Sierpc in the Mist for string orchestra (2018), Mo niusz ko Lapidaria for alto saxophone and piano (2019), Cascades for cello and string orchestra (2020), Non Artificial Piece for alto saxophone and controlled harmoniser (2020), Fables for Robots. Miniopera for accordion, saxophone, and piano (2021), The Descent of the Holy Spirit for organ, concertante instruments and orchestra (2021), Grammar According to Ginczanka, song cycle for soprano and piano (2021), Rupture for string trio (2021), Four Stages and a Postlude for soprano, flute, and piano (2023), Hommage à Jerzy Semkow for symphony orchestra (2023), In vino veritas for symphony orchestra (2024), This Day, This Hour for chamber ensemble (2024), Deconstruction: A Hymn Dissolving into Mist for symphony orchestra (2026), The World of Waltzes for flute and string quartet (2026), Rupture IIfor piano quintet (2026).