Lecturers of the 1st Organ Improvisation Courses in Nowy Sącz

An organist, improviser, pedagogue, and internationally active concert artist, he is regarded as one of the leading representatives of the French school of organ improvisation.

He studied organ, harpsichord, and piano under the guidance of Michel Bouvard, Louis Robilliard, Philippe Lefebvre, Jan Willem Jansen, and Thérèse Dussaut.

He is a laureate of international music competitions in both improvisation and interpretation, including First Prize at the St Albans International Organ Improvisation Competition (2009), Second Prize and the Audience Prize at the Mikael Tariverdiev International Organ Competition in Kaliningrad (2009), Third Prize at the Xavier Darasse International Competition in Toulouse (2008), as well as the François Vidal Prize awarded by the city of Toulouse (2006). He is also a laureate of the Glinka Foundation and the De Boni Arte Foundation in Moscow.

As a soloist, he maintains an intensive concert career, with nearly 600 recitals across Europe, the United States, China, and Russia. He has performed in major musical centers around the world, including the cathedrals of Berlin, Cologne, Copenhagen, London, Monaco, New York, Paris, Toledo, Vienna, and Zurich, as well as in prestigious concert halls such as the Mariinsky Theatre, the Bolshoi Theatre, and the Berlin Philharmonie.

He is also active as a pedagogue, regularly invited to give masterclasses and lectures on improvisation and interpretation, and serves on the juries of international competitions in Europe and the United States. His discography includes around fifteen recordings, among them organ works by Max Reger, albums of improvisations, Charles-Marie Widor’s Symphony No. 8, and transcriptions of works by Johann Sebastian Bach.

In 2012, he was appointed principal organist of the great organ of Bordeaux Cathedral. In 2014, he co-founded the Cathedra association, of which he serves as artistic director. He is actively involved in the development of the cathedral’s musical life and in the project to reconstruct its organ.

He is also a specialist in organology, having conducted an inventory of instruments in the Midi-Pyrénées region and participated in numerous restoration projects. Since 2018, he has worked as an independent expert in organ building.

An organist, improviser, pedagogue, and composer, he is a professor at the Hochschule für Katholische Kirchenmusik und Musikpädagogik in Regensburg (Germany).

He studied classical philology and history at the University of Regensburg, as well as church music and music theory at the Hochschule für Musik in Würzburg. He also pursued studies in organ performance practice at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Stuttgart and organ improvisation in Vienna.

After three years working as a musical assistant at Würzburg Cathedral, in 1989 he began his pedagogical career as a lecturer in organ and music theory at the Hochschule für Katholische Kirchenmusik und Musikpädagogik in Regensburg. In 1996, he was appointed cathedral organist at St. Peter’s Cathedral in Regensburg. Since 1997, he has also been active as a teacher with one of the oldest and most renowned boys’ choirs in the world—the Regensburger Domspatzen (“Regensburg Cathedral Sparrows”). In 2003, he was appointed full professor of organ, with a particular focus on liturgical organ playing and improvisation, at the Hochschule für Katholische Kirchenmusik und Musikpädagogik in Regensburg, where he served as rector from 2003 to 2011, and was re-elected to this position in 2023.

As a performer, he maintains an active concert career with a particular emphasis on organ improvisation, produces recordings, and appears as a guest lecturer. He is also a composer, including nine Mass ordinaries, and the author of publications on church and organ music.

An organist, improviser, church musician, and assistant professor at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw.

He graduated with distinction in Church Music from the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, studying organ with Prof. Andrzej Chorosiński and Dr. Bartosz Jakubczak, and organ improvisation with Dr. Michał Markuszewski and Dr. Michał Sławecki. He participated in the Erasmus+ program, during which he studied at the Institute of Church Music at the Universität der Künste in Berlin (Germany). After completing the scholarship, he continued his studies there in the Organ Improvisation program, studying improvisation with Prof. Wolfgang Seifen and organ with Prof. Paolo Crivellaro. He obtained both his Bachelor’s degree (2019) and Master of Music degree (2021) with top marks.

He is the recipient of the Grand Prize in improvisation at the 11th International Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck Organ Competition in Gdańsk, as well as second prize at the 1st Intercollegiate Competition for Improvisation on Keyboard Instruments in Katowice. He is the initiator and artistic director of musical projects such as the Summer Academy of Organ Improvisation in Cieszyn, the Summer Evening Concerts international organ festival, and the Lunch Time Concerts at the Holy Trinity Evangelical-Augsburg Parish in Warsaw. He serves as President of the Musica Organa Improvisata Association.

Since 2017, he has been teaching organ improvisation and liturgical accompaniment at the Faculty of Church Music of the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw. In 2022, he defended with distinction his doctoral dissertation titled “Liturgical accompaniment and organ improvisation as means of artistic expression for the church musician”. Since 2020, he has served as organist at the Holy Trinity Evangelical-Augsburg Parish in Warsaw.

An organist, expert in organ building, researcher and promoter of organ music, and professor at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw.

He completed his organ studies under the guidance of Prof. Julian Gembalski at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice, where his artistic development was also significantly influenced by Marek Toporowski (harpsichord, basso continuo).

He is a laureate of national and international music competitions, including the 2nd Feliks Nowowiejski International Organ Competition in Poznań. As a soloist and chamber musician, he performs actively in Poland and abroad. He also appears with renowned symphony orchestras, presenting virtuosic works from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. His achievements include commercial recordings and archival productions. In 2011, he published an extensive monograph devoted to the organ works of Feliks Nowowiejski.

He is the author of concepts for new instruments built by both domestic and international workshops. His designs are characterized by stylistic diversity, combining traditional sound aesthetics with modern technical solutions.

Since 2013, he has been teaching organ at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, where he currently also serves as Head of the Department of Church Music. From 1999 to 2013, he worked at the Institute of Musicology of the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, and in 2022 he was a visiting professor at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Germany).

In 2020, he was awarded the Bronze Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis by the Polish Minister of Culture and National Heritage.