On Stage:

Agnieszka Marucha – violin

Bartosz Jakubczak (Warszawa) – organs

AGNIESZKA MARUCHA – soloist, chamber musician, pedagogue and prizewinner of international violin competitions. Since 2017 the leader of the Violinofonica Quartet and a member of the Galant Piano Trio. A graduate of the Chopin University of Music in Warsaw (Master of Arts Diploma with distinction – class of Prof. Mirosław Ławrynowicz), and the Hochschule der Künste in Bern (Solisten Diplom – class of Prof. Monika Urbaniak-Lisik). She holds a post-PhD diploma in Musical Arts received from the Chopin University of Music, where she is currently an Assistant Professor of violin and chamber music. In 2013/2014 she was a visiting professor at Keimyung University in Daegu (South Korea). She is regularly invited to give masterclasses at music courses such as Bosa Antica in Sardinia, Italy, Chopin-Górecki in Warsaw and in Łańcut. A prolific recording artist, she has released 9 CD albums, 7 of which included world premiere recordings. In 2013 she gave the Korean premiere Lutosławski’s Chain II with the Keymyung Symphony Orchestra in Daegu, and in 2014 she was the winner of the “Fryderyk” Polish Phonographic Academy Award (Contemporary Chamber Music category with Opium String Quartet). As a member of the Frankfurt based contemporary music group Ensemble Modern, she has appeared in major concert halls around Europe, including the Philharmonie in Berlin, Festspielhaus in Baden Baden, Alte Oper in Frankfurt, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and Salle Pleyer in Paris. She is the author of several publications on violin playing and musicology.

BARTOSZ JAKUBCZAK (*1977) – organist, chamber musician, teacher, Habilitated Doctor of Musical Arts, professor of the Chopin University of Music in Warsaw. He graduated from the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw in the organ class of Andrzej Chorosiński and from postgraduate studies (with the highest distinction) at the Royal Academy of Music in London under David Titterington. He won a number of awards there, e.g. Peter le Huray, Whalley Organ Scholarship Award, and a special award granted by Peter Hurford. In 2015, he was awarded the prestigious title Associate of the Royal Academy of Music – ARAM. In 2023, he received a medal ‘For Merit to the Chopin University of Music’. He has participated in masterclasses conducted by Marie-Claire Alain, James David Christie, Ulrik Spang-Hanssen, Kei Koito, Susan Landale, Jon Laukvik, Ludger Lohmann, Harald Vogel, and Wolfgang Zerer. He has also taken part in The McGill Summer Organ Academy in Montreal. In 2002, he received the Prix de la Presse at the Grand Prix Bach de Lausanne in Switzerland. In the same year, at the Royal Festival Hall in London, he premiered the piece Salve Sancta Facies dedicated to him by David Gorton. He has participated in numerous prestigious festivals in Great Britain, including The Spanish Baroque Music Festival, London Handel Festival, London Bach Festival, Dartington International Summer School, The Spitalfields Music Festival, London Organ Forum, St Albans International Organ Festival as well as in concerts in the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, and Switzerland. He has recorded for Ars Sonora, Chopin University Press, Musicon. In the 2003/2004 academic year, he lectured at the Royal Academy of Music in London as part of the Pidem Organ Fellowship. In 2018, he ran an Organ Master Course at the Ignacy Jan Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznań. He regularly gives lectures at Polish scientific sessions and serves as a jury member in organ competitions. Since 2004, he has been a lecturer at his alma mater at the Chair of Organ and Harpsichord. In cooperation with Chopin University Press, he has developed the publication of Marek Jasiński’s Psalmody for organ, timpani, and vibraphone and of Aldona Nawrocka’s Diptichos for trumpet and organ.