Ireneusz Wyrwa, a Polish organist and professor at the Fryderyk Chopin Musical University in Warsaw, will give two concerts in Madrid. The first took place yesterday Tuesday at the Superior School of Music Reina Sofia (calle Requena, 1) and the second, will be held tomorrow Thursday at 19.30 hours, in the chapel of the Palacio Real of Madrid (calle de Bailén, 6).
Ireneusz Wyrwa studied organ with Julian Gembalski at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice. In the development of his artistic personality also had a significant influence Marek Toporowski (harpsichord, continuo).
He has won several national and international music competitions, including the II Feliks Nowowiejski International Organ Competition in Poznań. Active as a soloist and chamber musician. He also performs accompanied by renowned symphony orchestras, performing virtuoso works of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. It has record productions and archival recordings. In 2011 he published an extensive monograph dedicated to the organ work of Feliks Nowowiejski.
Ireneusz Wyrwa is also an expert in organ building and author of concepts for new instruments, built by domestic and foreign workshops. His projects are characterized by combining tradition in terms of sound aesthetics with modernity in the technical aspect.
Since 2013 he has been a professor at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, where he teaches organ classes and is the director of the Department of Sacred Music. Between 1999 and 2013 he worked at the Institute of Musicology of the Catholic University John Paul II in Lublin, and in 2022 he was a guest professor at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität in Mainz (Germany).
