Friday, June 28, 2024, 7:00 PM

Anna Przybysz, Polish organist, born in 1992 in Warszawa, Doctor of Musical Arts, music manager, certified coach, graduate of the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warszawa, in the class of Professor Józef Serafin and the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Leipzig, in the class of Professor Martin Schmeding.
She defended her doctoral dissertation "Continuator at the threshold of a stylistic breakthrough - organ music with religious themes by Karl Hoyer (1891-1936)". In 2021, her debut album "Karl Hoyer Organ Works" was released, in 2022 "Karl Hoyer Organ Sonatas", and in 2023 "Karl Hoyer Organ Works vol.3". The album "Karl Hoyer Organ Works" was awarded at the International Competition "Muzyczne Orły" as an outstanding artistic achievement made in 2021. The album was also submitted to Polityka's Passports 2021, and its positive reviews were published, among others, in "Ruch Muzyczny".
The album "Karl Hoyer Organ Sonatas" was awarded at the International Competition "Muzyczne Orły" as an outstanding artistic achievement made in 2022.
Erasmus scholarship holder, participant of the student exchange program with Rice University in Houston, USA. Two-time scholarship holder of the Prime Minister and the German Academic Exchange Service DAAD.
She conducts teaching activities, individual coaching sessions and gives concerts at international organ festivals in Poland and abroad. He also gives concerts at organ music festivals.

The Szczecin Castle Opera Orchestra has been associated with the Szczecin music scene since 1956. Its repertoire includes many operas, operettas, ballets and musicals, performing repertoire from the baroque and classicism to contemporary works. The ensemble also performs concerts of symphonic and oratorio music, especially during such artistic events as the Great Tenors Tournament, the concert "To Those Who Did Not Return from the Sea...", held in the natural setting of the Central Cemetery in Szczecin. The orchestra has toured abroad many times with opera and operetta performances in Austria, Belgium, Spain, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Germany and Switzerland.

The Choir of the Opera at the Castle in Szczecin began its activity with the establishment of the first Polish opera stage in Szczecin. It performs primarily in opera and operetta performances. The ensemble carries out its own concert activities, performing both vocal-instrumental and a cappella pieces. It has performed many times in Szczecin churches and as part of organ festivals in Kamień Pomorski and Koszalin. He has also recorded works by S. Moniuszko: Paria, Flis and Verbum nobile (which received the 2013 International Classical Music Awards in the opera category).

Małgorzata Bornowska graduated from the Faculty of Music Education at the F. Chopin Academy of Music in Warszawa, as well as Postgraduate Studies in Choirmastering and Voice Production at the F. Nowowiejski Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz. Since 2005, she has been a choirmaster at the Castle Opera in Szczecin, and a conductor since 2013. Since 2013, she has been working as a lecturer at the Faculty of Music Education at the Academy of Art in Szczecin (since 2019 as an AS professor). She has been the musical director of performances such as Farfurka królowej Bony, O krasnoludkach i sierotce Marysi, and the show Dla Niepodległej. Since 2017, she has been conducting the Amateur Choir at the Castle Opera.