Maria Anna Klich
Maria Anna Klich
Vocalist, hurdy-gurdy player.
She comes from Poznań, where she graduated from the Academy of Music (piano). She continued her studies at the Academy of Music in Krakow and the Conservatoire National de Region in Lyon (solo singing). She perfected her skills during an annual scholarship at the University of Music in Bucharest and at numerous master classes.
She is a CNR de Lyon scholarship holder.
She has recorded the opera “The telephone or L’amour a trois” by G.C. Menotti for Romanian Cultural Television and Radio Cultural (Romania).
She is permanently associated with the group FLORES ROSARUM, specializing in single-voice music, in particular the singing of St. Hildegard from Bingen, as well as with the early music band FLORIPARI Wawel Musicians. She is the soloist of the author’s Musical Theater IWIA.
As a lyricist, she cooperates with the Krakow Philharmonic and with the following bands: Floripari, Flores Rosarum, San Clemente, Perfugium, Jesuit Academic Choir, Octava Ensemble.
She took part in numerous hurdy-gurdy workshops.
Furthermore, she teaches voice emission as part of the Postgraduate Studies in Liturgy Monody (UPJPII). Teaches voice emission and ear training at the Benedictine Abbey in Tyniec. As a teacher, she also collaborates with the Gaudete choir.
She has performed in Poland, France, Romania, Algeria and Lithuania.
Mateusz Solarz
Mateusz Solarz
He is a cantor and musicologist specializing in performing and researching early music. In the years 2009-2014 he was an employee of the Dominican Liturgical Center, responsible for record and music publishing, digitization of liturgical books, as well as the editing of the songbooks Inconclusive Trinity. He was an auxiliary cantor of St. Mary’s Basilica, he performed chorale singing at votive masses in honor of St. Dominica in the Holy Trinity Basilica in Krakow. He participated in the recording of many CDs with liturgical music. Furthermore, he sings in the Perfugium Early Music Band, co-creates a schola serving in the Resurrection of the Lord parish. Of the Resurrectionists in Wola Duchacka. He is an editor of music publishing houses, co-editor of the Musica in Ecclesia Cathedrali Cracoviensi Audita series presenting musical monuments of the Wawel Cathedral preserved in the manuscripts of Krakow rorantists. In 2006-2008 the program director of the Jazz Juniors festival. For many years, the selector and producer of the Etiuda & Anima International Film Festival. Author of articles on music in the author’s animated film.
Dominik Dubiel SJ
Dominik Dubiel SJ
He is a jesuit, composer, producer, conductor and choral vocalist. He is also a graduate in philosophy at the Ignatianum Academy, currently a student at the Academy of Music in Krakow. Creator of The Jesuit Music project. He collaborates with the Mixed Choir of the Wawel Cathedral. He runs a blog on jezuici.pl, as an author he cooperates with from origenes.org and deon.pl. He is interested in Ignatian spirituality, liturgy and postmodernism.
Lucjan Bartkowiak CR
fr. Lucjan Bartkowiak CR
He is a Resurrectionist, he has a Master Degree of Theology, artist, mosaicist. In the years 2013-2014 he completed a specialization in Eastern theology at the Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome, as part of the Theological Studio of Cardinal Tomas Spidlik. A student of Father Marko I. Rupnik SI, in the years 2014-2017 member of the Centro Aletti artists team. From November 2017 in Krakow; the founder of the Aletti.pl mosaic studio in Krakow, working at the Church of the Resurrection in Cracow on Łobzowska 10 street.
Tomasz Głuchowski
Tomasz Głuchowski
Tomasz Głuchowski (1976), he is a graduate of the secondary schools in Kalisz: Technical Secondary School of Piano Construction and Secondary Music School (organ class of Kazimierz Madział). In 1996-2004 he studied organ (Klemens Johannes Kaminski) and harpsichord (Marta Czarny-Kaczmarska) at the Wrocław Academy of Music. Karol Lipiński. In addition to studies and master classes, a significant impact on his artistic personality had a number of scientific trips to the Netherlands (2008-10), where he had the opportunity to study historical instruments under the guidance of Peter van Dijk from Utrecht. After completing doctoral studies (Andrzej Chorosiński, Magdalena Czajka) in May 2011, he obtained the degree of doctor of art.
From 2005, he is an organist of the St. Wojciech. He is also an academic lecturer at the home university (Department of Church Music), harpsichord and organ teacher at the Wroclaw Primary and Secondary Music School in Wrocław. He gives concerts as a soloist and chamber musician in Poland and abroad. He has 8 CDs with organ and chamber music (harpsichord / bc.).
Furthermore, he is a co-founder and artistic director of the Wroclaw early music group Ars Concordiae. Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Opus Organi foundation, member of many associations (VEESO, SPMK, Ars & Studium, TMiBZK). Artistic manager of the National Music Festival “Organ Summer in Krotoszyńska Fara”. Consultant for the construction and renovation of organs. Tuner of historic keyboard instruments (as part of cooperation with NFM – including Wratislavia Cantans, Forum Musicum).
Marta Kierska-Witczak
Marta Kierska-Witczak
She is a graduate of music universities in Wrocław (diploma with distinction, 1990) and Bydgoszcz, she is a professor of musical arts (2011). Moreover, she is a Head of the Department of Church Music at the Music Academy Karol Lipinski in Wrocław, where she supervises teaching in the field of church music and conducts management of nationwide symposia and workshops in the field of church music and choral music.
She is a juror of international and national music competitions, head of the International Choir Conducting Tournament IN POLYPONIA PAGE (since 2008), coordinator of the Lower Silesian Science Festival (2008-13).
She has cooperated with groups in many European universities in Germany, Italy, Bulgaria, Spain and Croatia, Romania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, also in Belarus and Lithuania, as well as with various choirs of Wrocław with which she has won in Polish and European festivals and competitions highest rewards. In the years 1993-2015 she was the artistic director of the Chamber Choir of the Wrocław University of Technology Consonanza, with whom she conducted several hundred concerts with a diverse program – from medieval monody to contemporary vocal and instrumental forms; taking part and winning high prizes (also individual prizes) during numerous music competitions (Poland, Czech Republic, Austria, France, Macedonia, Germany, Portugal, Hungary, Great Britain, Italy, Belgium, France). Graduates of her choirs sing on professional stages of Poland, Europe and the United States.
Working in the authorities of the Association of Polish Church Musicians, she is involved in raising the level of Polish liturgical music – she leads bands, specialized workshops, initiates concert cycles and festivals, prepares a team of young conductors and organists, restores the performance of forgotten works of musical literature preserved in the monasteries of former Silesia, she is the author of numerous articles in the field of choral music performance.
Michał Wilk
Michał Wilk
Biblist, editor, translator, programmer. He studied modern languages at the Jagiellonian University, ancient languages and biblical studies – at the Pontificia Università Gregoriana and Sapienza Università di Roma, computer science – at the Warsaw Polytechnic.
He is a lecturer at Greek and Hebrew and subjects from the borderline of biblical and classical philology at the Piarist Order Seminary, Redemptorist Seminary and at the Dominican Philosophy and Theology Study.
Twice scholarship holder of the Renovabis scientific foundation (Germany). Since 2009, participates in the project of digitizing ancient Greek manuscripts Ancient Manuscripts (Boston). He is a member of Società Internazionale della Retorica Biblica e Semitica (Rome) and the International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies. The editor-in-chief of the monthly ‘Living Word’. Founder and editor of the BibleNote+ portal (formerly Origgenes+).
He strongly believes in the idea of e-learning education. The first completed e-learning project: “Greek grammar. Introduction to syntax. Boards and multimedia ”(financing: The Young Scientists Foundation at the University of Heidelberg). Currently working on an e-learning system to learn classical Greek based on the grammar of prof. Siebenhalt (Tübingen) and above the BibleNote+ University platform, which will be the first open online biblical university on the network.
Scientific projects and areas of scientific interest: classical and Semitic rhetoric, metaphors of theology of Paul of Tarsus in the context of the policy of the Roman Empire, Corpus Paulinum and Septuagint as ancient translatological projects, manuscripts and textual criticism of NT, NT perception in Coptic and Syrian languages.
Mateusz Kowalski
Mateusz Kowalski
He studied viola da gamba at the Krakow Conservatory W. Lutosławski in the class of Kazimierz Pyzik and at the Music Academy in Cracow with Marcin Zalewski. In 2009 he obtained a diploma with distinction at this university. He perfected his skills at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, studying with Philipp Pierlot and Rainer Zipperling. He participated in gambate courses and lessons led by musicians such as Paulo Pandolfo, Marianne Muller, Petr Wagner, Christine Plubeau, Mark Caudle and in orchestral projects under the direction of Jacques Ogg and Manfred Cordes.
He is a member of the Floripari band specializing in Renaissance music, which is based in the Wawel Royal Castle. He also performs in several other early music formations in Poland – Ars Cantus, Consortium Sedinum, Camerata Cracovia – in the international group Ensemble Barocum and the Vilnius Brevis Consort. He performs with these bands in Poland and abroad (including the Netherlands, Scotland, Bulgaria, Romania, Germany, Lithuania, Spain, Western Australia). He also cooperates with the Cracovia Danza Court Ballet and the Capella Cracoviensis band. Together with the gambian trio, Gambasada won the first prize at the International Chamber Music Competition of Early Music – Żory 2012. Since 2013, he has been an assistant in the viola da gamba class of the Krakow Academy of Music.
He runs the vocal group Perfugium, whose main field of interest is the religious music of olden times and traditional songs of the Church in Poland. He released five CDs with the band. He collaborates with the Dominican Liturgical Center, taking part in recordings and conducting liturgical music workshops. For several years he was a member of the Brotherhood of Lute from Dwór na Wysoka, a vocal group led by the lutenist Antoni Pilch. With this band he took part in many prestigious concerts and performances: Festival d’Ile de France (as part of the Polish Year in France), representation of the Lesser Poland Voivodeship at the Expo Hannover ‘2000 exhibition, concerts at the invitation of the Polish Consulate in Barcelona, three times in the Trialogos Festival in Tallinn (there, among others, joint performances with the Estonian band Linnamusikud and Sirin from Moscow), a concert with the trumpeter Tomasz Stańko (a combination of Polish passion song with jazz improvisation).
Piotr Pałka
Piotr Pałka
He is a graduate of the Music Academy in Krakow. Founder of the Voce Angeli team. He was the conductor of the Pontifical Choir three times. Since 1993, he has been composing and developing choral and vocal-instrumental works that can be heard in Polish churches. He composed many oratorios, including: God above all – Oratorio on Blessed Bronisław Markiewicz or Salt Deo per Mariam – Oratorio on Stefan Wyszyński Cardinal. He has been working continuously at the Franciscan Basilica in Kraków for 18 years. He also cooperates with the Congregation of Saint Michael the Archangel. In the years 2005-2015 he was a member of the Archdiocesan Commission of Church Music in Krakow. Since 2012, he has been a member of the Association of Polish Church Musicians. Since 2004, he has been conducting numerous music and liturgical workshops in Poland and abroad (Germany, Belgium, England).
photo: Wojciech Kęska
Paweł Bębenek
Paweł Bębenek
He is a graduate of Postgraduate Studies in Choirdom and Voice Emission at the Music Academy in Bydgoszcz. From 2002 as a conductor he led choir and orchestra of the Dominican Church Ministry in Krakow, the choir of the Carmelites Ministry in Krakow, the choir of young people meeting in Wołczyn. Capuchins’s Ministry. He regularly conducts liturgical and music choir workshops in Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, Russia, Germany, Great Britain, Denmark and the United States, often cooperating with Hubert Kowalski, Piotr Pałka and his wife, Laura Bębenek. He also collaborated with the Choir of the Center for Thought of John Paul II during the performance of the Dawn for the Unborn (2011) and the Płock Symphony Orchestra during a concert on the occasion of the apparitions of Jesus to Saint Faustina (2013). He also co-conducted workshop sessions for choirs, including with Jacek Sykulski, prof. dr hab. Jadwiga Gałęska-Tritt, dr hab. Beata Borowska, Ewa Sykulska, dr Joanna Piech-Sławecka, prof. dr hab. Elżbieta Wtorkowska.
Since 1995, he has been composing liturgical vocal and instrumental music, a cappella and stage music. His compositions were included in the songbooks: Mass of Mercy, Inconceivable Trinity vol. 1 and 2, I want to see God, Canticum Novum and XLI edition of the Church Songbook of Fr. Jan Siedlecki. His compositions appeared on the following albums: Polish Prayer, Mass of Mercy, With Love and Confidence, Desideria Carmina, When the Savior of the World is born, Dawn for the unborn, Maranatha, Alle psallite. He is also a composer of music for the musical Zazdrosna Miłość staged in 2003 at the Old Theater and Słowacki Theater in Krakow, as well as music for the spectacle Żywot św. Kingi (2004)
Scholes and choirs around the world reach for his works, including famous artists, such as musicians of the Lower Silesian Philharmonic, Schola Cantorum Gedanensis, Choir of the Moscow Cathedral, Choir of the St. Petersburg Metropolis, Linnamuusikud (Estonia), Tomasz Stańko, Piotr Baron, Andrzej Lampert, Justyna Steczkowska, Krystian Adam Krzeszowiak.
He has been singing since 1989 as a tenor, but also a countertenor, he was a student of Jacek Ozimkowski PhD, a soloist, deputy dean of the Vocal and Acting Department of the Academy of Music in Krakow. He started at the Academic Pastoral Office of the Dominican Church in Krakow. For many years he was associated with early music groups like Brotherhood of Lute, with which he toured in many European countries and Floripari. He also collaborated with the Krakow Philharmonic and the bands Sirin from Moscow and Linnamuusikud from Tallinn. He has worked with many respected musicians, such as Antoni Pilch, Stanisław Szczyciński, Aleksander Tomczyk, Jacek Sykulski, Marcin, Mateusz and Jan Pospieszalski, Joachim Mencel, Jan Budziaszek, Taivo Niitvägi (Estonia) and Andrei Kotov (Russia).