The award ceremony will be held at the Polish embassy in Paris on Thursday, under the auspices of President Emmanuel Macron.
The Prize of the French President is an annual award given by the French Académie Charles Cros.
Sikora told the Polish Press Agency (PAP) that the distinction is “a source of great pride and joy, coming as it does in the year of my 80th birthday.”
She also offered words of gratitude to Polish labels Anaklasis and PWM Music Publishers, which recently released two albums with her works. One of them, featuring three concertos, for piano, organ, and violin, also received an award from the Académie Charles Cros.
Sikora’s compositional output comprises over 110 works in a wide range of genres, from electroacoustic to instrumental and vocal music. She currently writes an opera.
To mark Sikora’s 80th birthday, performances of her works are planned in many European capitals, as well as in Montreal and São Paulo.
Sikora graduated from the Sound Engineering Department at the Music Academy in Warsaw. She also studied electroacoustic and computer music in Paris and Stanford University in the United States, as well as composition with Tadeusz Baird and Zbigniew Rudziński in Warsaw.
A resident of France since 1981, she is in regular contact with Poland and Polish musical life.
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