FILIP PRESSEISEN
Polish organist and improviser born in Szczecin in 1985. In 2013 he
graduated with honours from the class of organ of Prof. Dr. hc Christoph Bossert at
Hochschule für Musik in Würzburgu as a beneficiary of the scholarship offered under the
Bavarian BAYHOST programme, having first graduated from the class of organ of the Chopin
University of Music in Warsaw in 2010. During his studies he participated in the Erasmus-
Socrates programme (one year) and studied in the class of Prof. Franz Danksagmüller at
Hochschule für Musik in Lübeck.
He participated in master courses run by such outstanding professors as Wolfgang Zerer,
Michael Radulescu, Peter van Dijk, Harald Vogel, Martin Sander, Rudolf Mayer, László
Fassang and Andrés Cea Galán. He also took part in the courses of organ improvisation held
by Prof. Wolfgang Seifen and Dirk Börner.
Having graduated from the University in Warsaw he took a six months’ training in organ
building at Kristian Wegscheider’s workshop in Dresden (Wegscheider Orgelbau Dresden)
and at the company of Torkildsen brothers in Norway (Torkildsen Orgelbyggeri Åsen), he also
participated in the intonation course organised by the International Society of Organbuilders
(ISO) at Bernard Aubertin’s manufacture in Courtefontaine, France.
The artist is a member of Baltisches Orgel Centrum, the international Bach-Societät group,
the Polish Bach Society, and he chairs the Sub-Committee for Organ Building at the
Archdiocese of Kraków.
He gives concerts both in Poland, and abroad (Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Czech Republic,
Hungary, Norway, Lithuania).
In his active concert life, he also performs as an organ improviser playing the background
music to silent films, and cooperates with the Flores Rosarum ensemble, Kantorei Sankt
Barbara, and Cracov Singers.
In 2015 he won the 1st prize at the International Improvisation Competition ‘Internationaler
Kinoorgel-Wettbewerb im Babylon’ in Berlin, and in 2016 he was awarded with the special
Antalffy-Preis prize for the best interpretation of music on a historic organ at the International Organ Competition ION in Nürnberg. In 2017 he won the 1st prize and the
special prize (the Cup of the Mayor of Poznań) at the 6th Feliks Nowowiejski International
Organ Competition in Poznań. In 2019 he was the awardee of the 2nd prize and the
audience award at the International Competition of Improvisation in Schwäbisch Gmünd. In
2015 he won the competition organised by the Centre for Artistic Education for writing a
syllabus for the organ-playing course, intended for secondary schools of music in Poland.
Filip Presseisen is a lecturer at the Pontifical University of John Paul II in Kraków, and the
head of the instrumental section at the Archdiocese School of Music, level II, in Kraków.
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