The Department of Organ was established in 2019. The unit focuses mainly on artistic, academic, teaching and disseminating activities. Artistic projects carried out by the Department include periodically held events:

• “Organ Wednesdays”
• “Solo and Chamber Organ”
• “Lunch Concerts” addressed to seniors
• anniversary concerts
• solo and chamber concerts in churches in Poznań and its vicinity.

Moreover, the Department organizes Academic Organ Competitions “Romuald Sroczyński in Memoriam” and an annual academic conference devoted to the renovation of historical organs. The unit initiates the documentation and thus the subsequent restoration of the historical organs of Poznań and the region of Wielkopolska. The Department also organizes courses and seminars with the participation of teachers from other academic centers, including European ones, and supervises the students’ organ academic club. The pedagogues collaborate with academic centers in Poland (Łódź, Katowice, Bydgoszcz), with European universities within the Erasmus program (including Lübeck, Leipzig, Hamburg, Berlin, Verona, Reykjavik, Vienna), and with other Departments of the Academy of Music in Poznań such as the Department of Piano, the Department of Historical Performance Practices, and the Department of Church Music. The Department collaborates most closely with the Feliks Nowowiejski Society and the Society of Friends of Poznań Parish Church.

 

Members of the Department of Organ:

dr Jarosław Tarnawski – Head

prof. dr hab. Elżbieta Wiechowicz-Karolak

prof. dr hab. Sławomir Kamiński

dr hab. Waldemar Gawiejnowicz

dr Jakub Pankowiak