by Jakub Garbacz

MAŁGORZATA TRZASKALIK-WYRWA

organist, art conservator and heritage specialist, and Professor at the Chair of Organ at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw. She did her organ performance studies under the instruction of Prof. Magdalena Czajka and Prof. Julian Gembalski.

As both a heritage specialist and an organist, she combines her two professions to research and document historic organs, she also designs and supervises conservation and restoration projects for these historic instruments. Since 2023, she has headed a unique historic organ research team at the National Heritage Institute, and since 2000 she has been a member of the PRO MUSICA ORGANA Association, where she works on a voluntary basis. She gives concerts both as a soloist and a chamber musician, and runs an educational programme for children, called “What’s buzzing in the organ?”. For the last 25 years she has headed the Diocesan Institute of Church Music in the Diocese of Siedlce, she has also maintained a catalogue of the organs within the borders of the Diocese. In 2026 she was honoured with the Silver Badge “For the Care of Historic Monuments” awarded by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage.

by Piotr Droździk

IRENEUSZ WYRWA

organist, expert in organ building, and Professor at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw. He studied at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice under the instruction of Prof. Julian Gembalski. He is a laureate of national and international music competitions, including the 2nd International Feliks Nowowiejski Organ Competition in Poznań. He gives concerts in Poland and abroad, both as a soloist and as a chamber musician. He also performs with renowned symphonic orchestras, presenting virtuoso works composed at the turn of the 20th century. His artistic achievements include album releases and archival recordings. In 2011 he published an extensive monograph on Feliks Nowowiejski’s organ works which he continuously researches and popularizes. 

He has designed concepts of new instruments built at Polish and foreign workshops. His designs are characterised by stylistic diversity and the combination of traditional sound aesthetics with technical modernity. Since 2013 he has taught organ performance at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, where he is currently also the Head of the Chair of Church Music. In the years 1999–2013 he worked at the Institute of Musicology of the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, and in 2022 he was a visiting professor at Johannes Gutenberg-Universität in Mainz (Germany).

In 2020 he was honoured with the Bronze Medal for Merit to Culture “Gloria Artis”, awarded by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland.