On Stage:

Roman Jabłoński (Hiszpania) – cello

Damian Skowroński (Warszawa) – organs

ROMAN JABŁOŃSKI – cellist, born in 1945, a former student of Roman Suchecki, later studied under Sergei Shirinsky in Moscow and Aldo Parisot at Yale University. He is a laureate of competitions in Munich, Gdańsk, Dallas, and Bordeaux. His appearance at Carnegie Hall as part of the tour of the Great Symphony Orchestra of the Polish Radio under the direction of Jerzy Maksymiuk opened to him the leading concert halls of the world. Roman Jabłoński is also a valued chamber musician, who appeared with Krystyna Borucińska and with the Quartet of the Polish Radio and Television, among others. As a pedagogue he was active in many Polish and foreign academies, and he often leads master classes. In his wide repertoire an especially important place is given to Witold Lutosławski’s Cello Concerto, which he performed with great success in 1974 in Wrocław, and numerous times thereafter under the direction of the composer, with e.g. the Cleveland Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic (on the seventieth anniversary of Lutosławski’s birth), and the Berlin Philharmonic, and recorded it for EMI in 1978. Witold Lutosławski was greatly impressed by the art of Roman Jabłoński’s performance, and made the following remark: “He is, in my view, one of the very few top cellists of our times”.

DAMIAN SKOWROŃSKI – studies in the major of Church music at the Chopin University of Music in Warsaw (organ – Prof. Andrzej Chorosiński, organ improvisation – Dr. Michał Markuszewski). He participated in the Erasmus+ program, under which he studied at the Institute of Church Music at the Universität der Künste in Berlin. After the scholarship, he began regular studies at the same University in the major of Organ Improvisation (organ improvisation – Prof. Wolfgang Seifen, organ – Prof. Paolo Crivellaro), obtaining a Bachelor diploma (2019) and a Master of Music diploma (2021) with the highest grade. In addition to cyclical education, he also took part in numerous courses in the field of interpretation and organ improvisation, among others with such Pedagogues as Helmut Deutsch, Julian Gembalski, Pierre Pincemaille, Peter Planyavsky, Lionel Rogg, Martin Schmeding.