Event date

20 / 07 / 2025 - Sunday 13:00

Event venue

Church of St. Vitus

Event type

Organ Concerts

Organ Concert: Krzysztof Urbaniak

What will happen when a Polish professor from the University of Bremen takes over the organ in a Czech church? Krzysztof Urbaniak will offer baroque and his own compositions.

Organ concerts are an integral and very popular part of the Český Krumlov music festival. On the second Sunday of the festival, Krzysztof Urbaniak, a winner of numerous awards from international organ competitions and a professor at the Bremen University of Performing Arts, will perform. The organ will sound with compositions by Johann Ulrich Steigleder and his own work. The man, who considers it crucial to strengthen organ education and skills, has been inspiring the public with his love for this instrument for years. He transmits positive emotions and a warm relationship to music at competitions, to students and at concerts. They are usually held in majestic spaces that are inherent to the royal instrument. This confirms the importance of historical organs as tangible and intangible cultural heritage, which is carefully cared for not only by the Polish organist and professor.

Artists

Krzysztof Urbaniak – organ

Program

Johann Ulrich Steigleder: Tabulatur Buch Darinnen daß Vatter unser (Tablature Book Darinnen that Father is Our), 1627 „Fantasia, 4 Vocum“
Krzysztof Urbaniak: Interludium I (improvisation)
Johann Ulrich Steigleder: Ricercar Tabulatura, 1624 „Ricercar in E“
Krzysztof Urbaniak: Improvisation über Vater unser im Himmelreich (Improvisation on Our Father in the Kingdom of Heaven)
Johann Ulrich Steigleder: Ricercar Tabulatura, 1624 „Ricercar in A“
Krzysztof Urbaniak: Interludium II (improvisation)
Johann Ulrich Steigleder: Tabulatur Buch Darinnen daß Vatter unser (Tablature Book Darinnen that Father is Our) 1627, „Toccata“

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Krzysztof Urbaniak

Krzysztof Urbaniak, professor of historical organ at the Bremen University of Performing Arts, studied organ and harpsichord in Warsaw and Stuttgart and received his doctorate from the Academy of Music in Krakow. He is also the recipient of numerous scholarships and awards from international organ competitions. Krzysztof Urbaniak with organ has performed in Europe and Asia and has also been a professor at the State Academy of Music in Łódź, taught at the Academy of Music in Kraków and given masterclasses around the world. An internationally renowned expert not only on the organ he is frequently invited to serve on the juries of major organ competitions.

Krzysztof Urbaniak
foto: Dariusz Kulesza

Church of St. Vitus

The architectural landmark of Český Krumlov was built on the site of an older building after 1400 by the Krumlov parish priest Hostislav of Bílsko. The Church of St. Vitus has the longest history of all the sanctuaries in Krumlov. It was built by rebuilding an older church built by Peter of Rožmberk, which was […]

Organ Concert: Krzysztof Urbaniak

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