Friday, August 8, 2025, 7:00 PM

Martin Gregorius studied organ playing, improvisation, music theory, composition, conducting and sacred music in Gdańsk, Detmold, Lyon and Paris (including with professors such as Michel Bouvard, Hanna Dys, Thierry Escaich, Roman Perucki). In 2017, he obtained his doctorate at the Academy of Music in Poznań. He has won numerous awards at international organ competitions in Poland, Austria, Germany, Italy and Luxembourg. He gives concerts in Europe, the USA and Asia. In the 2017/18 season, he was titular organist at the Sapporo Concert Hall in Japan. Since 2020, he has been a docent of organ and improvisation at the Higher School of Music in Regensburg. In 2021, he was appointed cantor and organist of the Basilica of St. James in Straubing. Since 2023 he has also been an associate professor of organ improvisation at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich.

Fresco String Quintet is formed by the youngest musicians of the Mieczysław Karłowicz Szczecin Philharmonic in Szczecin and the Castle Opera in Szczecin, graduates of music academies in Katowice, Lübeck, Łódź, Poznań and Warsaw. The band was founded in 2023 to create a space for musicians to work creatively, different from symphonic or operatic performance, and to exchange musical thoughts and inspirations in a small group. Its members are looking for their own voice in the music world, wanting to combine the highest possible level of performance with youthful passion.