Friday, June 19, 2026, 7:00 PM

Julian Gembalski
is a graduate of the State Higher School of Music in Katowice, where he graduated from the organ class of Prof. H. Klaja, and the Department of Composition and Theory. He continued his studies in Belgium and France. He has performed in concerts in Europe and the USA, and has recorded over 40 albums. In the years 1991–2007 he made a series of radio recordings Anthology of Organs in Upper Silesia, in which he recorded the sound of over 90 instruments from that region. A laureate of organ and piano improvisation competitions, winner of numerous awards (including the W. Korfanty Award, the Catholic Lux et Silesia Award, the Evangelical Silesian Emerald Award), and awarded the Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice medal by Pope John Paul II. He is a professor at the Academy of Music in Katowice, where he teaches the organ class and heads the Department of Organ and Harpsichord. He founded the first organ museum in Central and Eastern Europe. For many years he has served as archdiocesan visitor of organs and organists.

Choir of the Maritime University of Technology in Szczecin
(formerly the Choir of the Maritime Academy) has been present on the music scene for 23 years. The ensemble has taken part in hundreds of concerts and gone on dozens of international tours, performing throughout Europe, as well as in Asia and both Americas, winning 98 festival awards (including 15 Grand Prix and 57 gold medals). The choir has performed many premieres of works by Polish composers (e.g. M. Bembinow, M. Jasiński, J. Stalmierski, J. Sykulski), and has been invited to collaborate with Polish and foreign artists (including A. Bocelli, K. Dębski, J.K. Pawluśkiewicz, K. Penderecki, A. Piaseczny, St. Soyka, Z. Wodecki). The choir has released 15 CDs and 22 music videos. In 2019 he was awarded the honorary title "Ambassador of Szczecin", in 2021 the "Made in Szczecin" brand certificate, and in 2024 the Artistic Award of the City of Szczecin.

Sylwia Fabiańczyk-Makuch
is a graduate of the I.J. Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznań. She has won about 100 awards around the world with the Choir of the Maritime University of Technology in Szczecin. She is the winner of numerous individual awards for the best conductor (including in Bratislava, Gorizia, Prague). In 2021, at the World Choir Festival in Hong Kong, she won a diploma as one of the 10 best conductors out of over 200 participants from around the world. She founded the Pomerania Singers vocal group, is a juror and originator of the Wspólne Brzmienia project, and manages the Center for Academic Culture of the Maritime University of Technology in Szczecin. She is a professor at the Academy of Art in Szczecin. For her services to choral music and charity work, she has been awarded, among others: Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta, Silver Cross of Merit, Bronze Medal for Merit to Culture Gloria Artis, West Pomeranian Nobel Prize in the field of artistic sciences.