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Friday Lunchtime Organ Music: Dr Michal Szostak


Venue

St Michael and All Angels Church
Bath Road
London, W4 1TT

Details

Date:
February 2
Time:
12:30 pm - 1:15 pm

Our lunchtime concerts take place on the first Friday of the month, from 12.30 to 1.15pm.

They are kindly sponsored by Ballet4Life and Home Instead, Hammersmith and Chiswick and promoted on organrecitals.uk and in The New London Organ Concerts Guide.
Admission is free with a retiring collection (please add Gift Aid where possible) for the church’s music fund.
All welcome.

This month’s organist will be Dr Michal Szostak (Warsaw Academy).

Michał Szostak, organist, improviser, and researcher, was born in 1980 in Poland.
He is a Doctor of Musical Arts in Organ Performance (The Fryderyk Chopin University of Music, Warsaw) who studied in Poland, Italy (Pontificio Istituto Ambrosiano di Musica Sacra in Milan) and the UK (The Royal College of Organists, London).
As an international concert organist, he performs dozens of recitals annually in Europe, North America, South America, Asia and Africa.
His organological publications are issued regularly by organ magazines: British “The Organ”, Canadian “Organ Canada”, American “The Diapason”, and “The Vox Humana”.
Member of The Royal College of Organists, London, The American Guild of Organists, and The Organ Historical Society, USA.
The former Music Director and the Principal Organist at the Sanctuary of the Virgin Mary in Licheń Stary (the largest organ in Poland, 157/6M+P).
He recorded on CDs. In addition, he has completed Master’s and PhD studies in Management (Leon Koźmiński University, Warsaw). As an Associate Professor at the University of Social Sciences and Head of the Institute for Management Research at Collegium Civitas, he conducts interdisciplinary scientific works at the interface between Management, Art, and Aesthetics, as well as extensive didactic activities. He has been a business practitioner in an international environment for many years.
More on the website: www.michalszostak.org.

 

Programme:

D. Buxtehude, Prelude, Fugue and Ciaccona C-dur, BuxWV 137
Christ unser Herr zum Jordan kam”, BuxWV 180
Improvisation, Italian Concerto: Allegro-Adagio-Allegro
L. van Beethoven, Symphony in C Minor, Op. 65, No 5, Allegro con brio
Improvisation, Symphonic Variations
L.J.A. Lefébure-Wély, Sortie in E flat Major, L’Organiste moderne, 11me livraison, no 1