MAJA TROCHIMCZYK Consultant | Music Historian | Poet | Contact | Bio & More Details Development Consultant With over eleven years of development experience, I am a member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals, working as an advancement professional and consultant for a range of non-profit agencies, churches, educational institutions, and other charitable organizations. As a writer, editor, and researcher, I specialize in development writing: Grant proposals to private and corporate foundations, and to government agencies Solicitation materials, proposals and information kits for major gift prospects Reports, Scope of Work descriptions, and other specialized, grant-related writing Annual reports, including design concepts, as well as stories, narratives, profiles, and financial information Newsletters in print and electronic formats, with agency "branding" elements and current, personalized news stories Special events programs, such as gala/golf program books, as well as concert, symposium and exhibition programs Direct mail letters, brochures, and postcards Promotional and communications material, such as website content, press releases, press kits, etc. I have worked on capital projects and the planning/implementation of donation campaigns. See my biography for more information about my experience in this area. If you would like to work with me on a project, please contact me via e-mail, or at the address below. My clients include: USC Polish Music Center, Catholic Charities of Los Angeles, The Midnight Mission, St. Francis Medical Center, Los Angeles Universal Preschool, Polish American Congress, and other organizations. I'm a member of senior management team of Phoenix Houses of California, Inc. Music Historian Two of my three graduate degrees are in music history: Ph.D. from McGill University (1994) and M.A. from the University of Warsaw (1986). I also studied sound engineering (M.A. 1987) and used this background in my musical research. As an author of three books and over 60 scholarly articles published in peer-reviewed journals, I'm well established in music history world, with two main specializations: Polish music of the 19th and 20th centuries, and 20th-century contemporary music (Andriessen, Brant, Lutoslawski, and so forth). A former director of USC Polish Music Center, I now serve as President of Society for Polish Music, and am a member of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences, American Musicological Society, Polish American Historical Association, and other professional organizations. My music history books, published and in progress, are as follows: Polish Dance in Southern California. East European Monographs Series, Columbia University Press, 2007. A study of folk dance groups created by émigré amateurs and the influence of folk-song-and-dance ensembles from Poland on the Polish dance movement in America. Based on a 1999 research project of the Southern California Studies Center at USC. A Romantic Century in Polish Music. Collection of essays by Magdalena Dziadek, Martina Homma, Krzysztof Rottermund, Krzysztof Szatrawski, Anne Swartz, Maria Zduniak, and the editor. Essays about Szymanowska in Russia, Lipiński in Wrocław, Lipiński's violins, Wieniawski's virtuosity, the reception of Wagner, Paderewski's mystique, women composers, and other issues. PIASA Books, forthcoming. The Music of Louis Andriessen. Studies and interviews with the composer by Trochimczyk, additional texts by Dutch contributors: Elmer Schönberger, Frits van der Waa, and Reinbert de Leeuw. New York: Routledge, 2002, 317 pp. With music examples, diagrams, illustrations, list of works, discography, bibliography, index. [See: Routledge (Taylor & Francis), Amazon.com.] After Chopin: Studies in Polish Music. Collection of essays about Szymanowski, Lutosławski, Ingarden; and source readings by Polish composers discussing Chopin. Editor, translator, and author of 3 entries (introduction, essays on Ingarden, and national anthems, listed below separately). Los Angeles: Polish Music Center at USC, 2000, 333 pp. Polish Music History Series, vol. 6. Henry Brant On His Music: Interviews. Collection of conversations with the composer, 1992-2004. With essays about his music; list of works, calendarium of life, index. Forthcoming. Hanna Kulenty's Musical Kitchen. Collection of interviews with the composer (2003); essays about her music, her M.A. thesis in English translation; with a list of works, discography, recipes and index. Forthcoming. Polish Music Journal. Peer-reviewed research journal (1998-2003). Editor. www.usc.edu/go/polish_music/PMJ. Vol. 1/1 (1998, "Wilk Prizes"); vol. 1/2 (1998, "Early music"); vol. 2/1-2 (1999, "The Chopin Year - I"); vol. 3/1 (2000, "The Chopin Year - II); vol. 3/2 (2000, "Chopin and Lutosławski"); vol. 4/1 (2001, "Paderewski"), vol. 4/2 (2001, "Paderewski"); vol. 5/1 (2002, "Bacewicz"); vol. 5/2 (2002, "Zygmunt Stojowski"); vol. 6/1 (2003, "Polish-Jewish Music"); vol. 6/2 (2003, "Henryk Mikołaj Górecki"). Świat Xenakisa [Xenakis's World]. Special issue of the Polish Musicological Quarterly, Muzyka 43, no. 4 (1998), 166 pp. Editor (Maria Anna Harley). Articles by Peter Hoffmann, James Harley, Maria Anna Harley, Mihu Iliescu, Benoit Gibson. Poet Always an avid reader, I started writing poetry in English, not my native Polish. Since 1995, I have kept a personal poetic journal and wrote all sorts of poems as gifts for my friends. I like illustrating them with my photographs, taken mostly in my enchanted garden and the wild neighborhood of Southern California. In 2006, I was the runner-up for the title of Poet Laureate of Sunland-Tujunga and joined the McGroarty Chapter of the California Association of Chaparral Poets. Of my over 800 poems, some collections have been published online, but they were mostly created as gifts for friends. Some poems and stories have made strange appearances in online blogs, or were published locally. Glorias & Assorted Praises. 34 religious poems in memory of Franciscan nun, Sister Elia Maciejewska. Los Angeles: Moonrise Press, 2007. Miriam's Iris, or Angels in the Garden. 42 Poems. Los Angeles: Moonrise Press, forthcoming in 2008. Poems for My Friend. Poems from My Garden. Los Angeles: Moonrise Press, 2007. Rose Always. 30 Love Poems. Los Angeles: Moonrise Press, forthcoming in 2008. (c) Copyright 2007 by Maja Trochimczyk. P.O. Box 4288, Sunland, California 91041-4288. Home | Biography | Glorias | Poems for My Friend | Poems and Stories |