DR. Lacey Golaszewski

Lacey Golaszewski received her Ph.D. in historical musicology and music theory under the advisement of Dr. James Currie from the State University of New York at Buffalo, where she previously earned degrees in music performance, music education, and French. She also attended the Scotia Festival of Music Young Artist Program in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the Arts Academy of Le Domaine Forget in Saint-Irénée, Québec, the Orford Arts Centre Academie in Orford, Québec, and Alpha-Aktiv in Heidelberg, Germany. Dr. Golaszewski has studied saxophones, clarinet, and bass clarinet with Edward Yadzinski, Harry Fackelman, and John Friedrichs and composition with Jesse Wright-Fitzgerald, Marc Mellits, and Edward Ruchalski.

Currently, Dr. Golaszewski is busy as a performer, arranger, composer, artist, poet, writer, clinician, reviewer, educator, translator, annotator, and researcher. As a saxophonist and clarinetist, she performs in various solo, chamber, and orchestral settings, and in 2022, she was featured as guest soloist with the Amherst Chamber Orchestra and conductor Dr. Thomas Witakowski in Glazunov’s Concerto for alto saxophone and orchestra. She has also adapted many standards of the orchestral, choral, and organ repertoires for saxophone and clarinet ensembles, including music of Bach, Mozart, Rossini, Tchaikovsky, Mascagni, and Grieg. In terms of scholarship, her research interests include aesthetics, critical theory, nineteenth and early twentieth century French art music, nineteenth century Russian ballet music, woodwind chamber music, and the effects of woodwind performance on personal health. Dr. Golaszewski has presented her research across North America and Europe, and in 2021, she was awarded Second Prize in the International Clarinet Association Research Competition. She has additionally presented clinics on teaching low saxophones and clarinets, on scoring music for various woodwind ensembles, and on the music of Eugène Bozza. Dr. Golaszewski has likewise reviewed numerous musical and pedagogical works for The Clarinet and recordings for Artvoice. As a pedagogue, her experience includes courses in music and French, specifically music history, music theory, music appreciation, and applied music, as well as French language, literature, culture, film, translation, philosophy, and educational methodology. Presently, she teaches at the State University of New York at Fredonia, where she is concurrently Program Coordinator for French and Spanish Adolescence Education and Clinical Field Supervisor for French, Spanish, and TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages). She additionally advises student research in music and French in the form of honors theses, senior capstone projects, and directed study research projects.

Outside of academia, Dr. Golaszewski maintains a private studio, teaching saxophone and clarinet. She has also worked extensively as a French-English translator, with particular expertise in legal, medical, financial, and business documents from francophone Africa. As an artist, she works in graphite, charcoal, colored pencil, wax pastel, soft pastel, oil pastel, oil sticks, watercolor, and ink. She has exhibited her art in several juried shows.