Friday, September 26
Cathedral, 12:00 p.m.
Andrzej Białko, organ
Noon Organ Concert at the Varaždin Cathedral
As part of the Scientific Symposium of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (HAZU)
Louis Couperin
Fantaisie (Récit de basse)
Duo
François Couperin
Messe à l’usage des paroisses
Offertoire sur les Grands jeux
Benedictus. Chromhorne en Taille
Dieterich Buxtehude
Te Deum laudamus, BuxWV 218
Praeludium
Versus 1: Te Deum laudamus
Versus 2: Pleni sunt coeli et terra
Te Martyrum candidatus laudat exercitus
Tu devicto mortis aculeo
Johann Sebastian Bach
Concerto in C major, BWV 594
(Allegro)
Recitativo Adagio
Allegro
Andrzej Białko graduated from the Academy of Music in Kraków, where he studied organ under Joachim Grubich. He won first prizes at the International Organ Competition in Rome (1981) and the National Organ Competition in Bydgoszcz-Gdańsk (1985). He has performed at nearly all major Polish organ festivals, as well as throughout most European countries, and in Lebanon, North and South America. As an educator, he has held long-standing teaching positions at the Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music in Kraków (Organ Department) and the Władysław Żeleński State School of Music in Kraków. His performances of the complete organ works of J.S. Bach in Kraków and Wrocław during the Bach jubilee year 2000, as well as his Ars organi series in Kraków – a 20-concert anthology of organ music from the 16th to 20th centuries – were met with great acclaim. Białko’s extensive and ever-expanding repertoire spans all styles, and includes the complete organ works of Buxtehude, Bruhns, Mendelssohn, Franck, Liszt, and Brahms. Many of his recordings are preserved in the archives of Polish Radio (Channel 2), and he has released 30 CDs to date. He has been awarded the Silver (2006) and Gold Medal (2020) Gloria Artis by the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. At the Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music, he served as Vice-Rector (2016–2020), and from 2020 to 2024 as Head of the Organ Department and Director of the Doctoral School.