ŁUKASZ TRUSZCZYŃSKI
organist and composer born in 1955 in Sopot. Today, he is a Full
Professor at the Academy of Music in Gdańsk, where he teaches e.g. organ performance,
harmony in practice, liturgical accompaniment, organ improvisation, as well as the structure
of the organ with musical acoustics. He is the founder of the Chair of Church Music at the
Academy of Music in Gdańsk, which he headed for many years. Moreover, he gives lectures
at numerous universities of the theological profile.
He is a specialist in organ designing, construction, and maintenance. He cooperates with
many organ building companies, offering them consultations and preparing expert opinions.
The instruments built to his own proprietary designs include e.g. the organ at the Chair of
Church Music (Academy of Music in Gdańsk), or the instrument at the Sanctuary of God’s
Mercy in Gdańsk.
Before he became the chief organist at the St. Mary’s Co-cathedral Basilica in Gdańsk in
1985, he had been a member of the committee in charge of the project of constructing the
organ in the Basilica (at the stage of technological acceptance of the instrument he was the
head of the Polish body of the international commission which approved and accepted the
built instrument). He is an animator of musical life in Gdańsk and Pomerania, where he has already organized
more than 1000 concerts within the framework of international festivals and concert cycles
(e.g. the Organ Evenings at St. Mary’s, or Music at the Sanctuary of God’s Mercy in Gdańsk).
He is the director of the International Festival of the Organ, Choir, and Chamber Music, held
annually basis at St. Mary’s Basilica in Gdańsk.
He has given concerts at almost all major Polish centres of musical life, and abroad in
Germany, the United Kingdom, Denmark, France, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands,
Switzerland, Sweden, the USA, Ukraine, Belarus, Latvia, and Russia. He has recorded a
dozen-or-so CDs of e.g. organ music (Poland, Germany, USA), and his own compositions
featuring choirs and symphonic orchestras, as well as improvisations.