How Children Learn Music: Emotion Before Technique/ Jak dzieci uczą się muzyki: emocja przed techniką

On December we began working with Tymek on his first Christmas carol — “Przybieżeli do Betlejem.” It was an important moment: his first conscious encounter with a piece that carries not only melody, but also emotion. At the beginning, there was a lot of caution and difficulty with concentration. His fingers did not always know …

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7 November – the birthday of Marie Skłodowska-Curie.On what it really means to be “the first”./7 listopada – urodziny Marii Skłodowskiej-Curie.O tym, co naprawdę znaczy być „pierwszą”

Marie Curie and her daughters Irène and Eve sitting on a bench in the garden, 1905. © Association Curie Joliot-Curie, photographer unknown Today, on the birthday of Marie Skłodowska-Curie, I try to imagine what it meant to be a young girl in Warsaw under partition, who dreams of chemistry in a world where women were not …

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EN — Tymek: Early Signs That Music Works (and Why the Science Says So)/PL – Tymek: pierwsze sygnały, że muzyka działa (i co na to nauka)

Teaching Tymek: Early Signs That Music Works (and Why the Science Says So)Series: Tymek / Science EN —What I’ve noticed so far Beat sense even in “free” play. When Tymek “improvises,” he still keeps even time gaps between notes. Note-naming curiosity. He loves naming pitches and instantly spotted the difference between notes with stems and …

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EN: Teaching Tymek – My First Piano Student/PL: Tymek – mój pierwszy uczeń gry na fortepianie

GB First Lessons with Tymek Sometimes in life, there are encounters that stay with us for a long time. For me, one of those was the beginning of my work with Tymek — a five-year-old boy on the autism spectrum who, from the very first moments, turned out to be remarkably musical, cheerful, and curious …

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Voices of Curiosity-Stage I: Live Classical Singing and Mood in Kindergarten/ Głosy ciekawości-Etap I: Śpiew klasyczny a nastrój w przedszkolu

Experiment Stage 1 – Preschool Experience/ Eksperyment, etap 1 – doświadczenie w przedszkolu This is my second post, where I would like to share the story of my first experiment — singing opera for preschool children, alternating silence and music, and checking how it influenced their focus and mood. To mój drugi wpis, który ma …

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“From TEDx to Gdańsk – Two Days, Two Stages”/”Od TEDx do Gdańska – dwa dni, dwie sceny”

🇬🇧 Post (English version – 15 March 2025) From TEDx to the National Finals of the International Public Speaking Competition/PL Od TEDx do ogólnopolskiego finału International Public Speaking Competition These were two intense and unforgettable days.On Friday, 14 March, I opened TEDxLOV Youth as the first speaker of the day.Right after my talk, I went …

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Breath under pressure – what I learned from TEDx

🇬🇧 TEDx – March 14, 2025: „Breath, Voice, and Calm – My TEDx Talk” /PL „Oddech, głos i spokój – moje wystąpienie na TEDx” On March 14, 2025, I had the opportunity to stand on the TEDx stage – an independently organized event inspired by the global TED conferences that spread ideas worth sharing – …

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