viii m. k. čiurlionis international piano and organ competition

Andrzej Chorosiński

| Poland

ANDRZEJ CHOROSIŃSKI (Poland) began his organ studies at the Karol Szymanowski State Music School in Warsaw. He continued his music education at the Warsaw Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music under prof. Feliks Raczkowski (organ), and Professor Tadeusz Paciorkiewicz (composition). He has performed in almost all European countries, giving concerts in the cathedrals of Cologne, Oslo, Notre-Dame in Paris, St Catherine’s in Ontario (Canada), and many other famous venues. The organist has given radio and television broadcasts in Poland and abroad, and made many LP and CD recordings with various recording companies. He received the title of Professor of Musical Arts in 1992, and since then he has been teaching organ at Warsaw and Wroclaw Academies of Music. A. Chorosińsk was rector of the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw. At the same time, he was a member of the Board of the Association of Rectors of European Conservatories, Academies and Universities of Music. The organist was a member of jury in numerous organ competitions, in France, Germany, Lithuania and Poland. Since 1999, A. Chorosiński has been head of the Institute of Organ and Harpsichord at Warsaw Academy of Music, and from 1997 to 2002 he combined these duties with those of the artistic director of the Silesia Philharmonic in Jelenia Gora.