biography
Paweł Wróbel – pedagogue, international concert organist and music life animator.
He studied with Prof. Andrzej Chorosiński at the Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, Prof. Jon Laukvik at the Hochschule für Musik in Stuttgart (Germany) and Prof. Gunther Rost at the Universitӓt für Musik in Graz (Austria). A grant-holder of the Keimyung Research Foundation of the University in Daegu (South Korea) in 2007. In 2012, he was awarded the Doctor of Music Arts degree by the I. J. Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznań, and in 2019 a Habilitated Doctor degree by the S. Moniuszko Academy of Music in Gdańsk.
He is a prize-winner of international organ competitions in Poznań (2005), Gdańsk (2006), Zurich (2011), Miami (2012).
He has taken part in the organ performance seminars and master classes given by Ludger Lohmann, Bernhard Haas, Gerhard Weinberger, Wolfgang Zerer, Martin Sander, Christoph Krummacher.
He is an author of organ transcriptions of harpsichord, piano and orchestral works by J. S. Bach, F. Chopin, P. Tchaikovsky, G. Fauré, F. Liszt, S. Prokofiev, S. Rachmaninov, J. Sibelius and I. Stravinsky. His own original organ transcriptions of F. Liszt’s Funérailles S. 173/7 (2010), Forgotten Waltz no. 1 S. 215 (2017), Piano Sonata in B minor S. 178 (2019), as well as G. Fauré’s Après un rêve (2018) and P. Tchaikovsky’s Dance of a Sugar Plum Fairy from the ballet Nutcracker (2018) were published by the ”Polihymnia” Edition in Lublin.
Paweł Wróbel’s repertoire comprises complete organ works of J. Brahms, N. Bruhns, C. Franck, R. Schumann and all organ sonatas by A. G. Ritter.
The artist has given concerts in England, Denmark, Austria, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Germany, Russia, Switzerland, Italy, United States and Poland; he is a member of an international organist association – the American Guild of Organists in New York.
In 2019, Paweł Wróbel recorded organ works by the Polish composer Aleksander Karczyński on the organ of the Divine Mercy Basilica in Kraków-Łagiewniki. The album, published by ”Ars Sonora” in Łódź, is the first ever phonographic recording of these works. Whereas the sheet music featuring Three Preludes and Fugues op. 5 by Aleksander Karczyński, edited by Paweł Wróbel and published by the ”Polihymnia” Edition in Lublin, is the first ever printed publication of those compositions, based on the manuscript from the National Library in Warsaw.
Paweł Wróbel is the artistic director of the International Organ and Chamber Music Festival in the Cathedral Basilica in Kielce; he has also been involved in the reconstruction project of the cathedral organ (The Rieger Brothers, 1912) by the organ-building company ”Zych” from Wołomin, and recorded an album, published by the ”Jedność” publishing house from Kielce.
He is a teacher of organ at the Jan Dlugosz University in Czestochowa, at the Diocesan Organist College and complex of Ludomir Różycki State Music Schools in Kielce.
In 2022 he received a scholarship from the Minister of Culture and National Heritage in Warsaw, within which the project “Forgotten Polish organ music of 20th century composers” was created, which consists of music publication of 5 Fugues op. 35 by Aleksander Karczyński published by the ”Polihymnia” Edition in Lublin, as well as a CD published by ”Ars Sonora” in Łódź, with works of the following composers: Walerian Styś, Franciszek Przystał, Bolesław Wallek Walewski, Kazimierz Garbusiński.