Paweł Wróbel

Paweł Wróbel – pedagogue, concert organist and music life animator.
He studied with Prof. Andrzej Chorosiński at the Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, Prof. Jon Laukvik at Hochschule für Musik in Stuttgart (Germany) and Prof. Gunther Rost at the Universitӓt für Musik in Graz (Austria). A grant-holder of the Keimyung Research Foundation of the University in Daegu (South Korea) in 2007. In 2012, he was awarded the Doctor of Music Arts degree by the I. J. Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznań, and in 2019 a Habilitated Doctor degree by the S. Moniuszko Academy of Music in Gdańsk. He is a prize-winner of international organ competitions in Poznań (2005), Gdańsk (2006), Zurich (2011), Miami (2012). He is an author of organ transcriptions of harpsichord, piano and orchestral works by J. S. Bach, F. Chopin, P. Tchaikovsky, G. Fauré, F. Liszt, S. Prokofiev, S. Rachmaninov, J. Sibelius and I. Stravinsky. His own original organ transcriptions of F. Liszt’s Funérailles S. 173/7 (2010), Forgotten Waltz no. 1 S. 215 (2017), Piano Sonata in B minor S. 178 (2019), as well as G. Fauré’s Après un rêve (2018) and P. Tchaikovsky’s Dance of a Sugar Plum Fairy from the ballet Nutcracker (2018) were published by the Polihymnia Edition in Lublin. The artist has given concerts in England, Denmark, Austria, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Germany, Russia, Switzerland, the United States and Poland; he is a member of an international organist association the American Guild of Organists in New York.