Chicago Philharmonic 2018-2019

THE CHICAGO PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY | FALL 2018 13 2018 2019 SEASON: ANDRZEJ BIAŁKO Andrzej Białko, Organ Born in Kraków in 1959, Białko studied piano at the Musical Secondary School. In 1973, he began learning to play the organ, rst privately and then at the Academy of Music in Kraków under the supervision of Professor Joachim Grubich. In 1981 he received the rst prize in the International Organ Competition in Rome, Italy. In 1985, he was awarded rst prize in the framework of the National Organ Competition in Bydgoszcz-Gdańsk. Białko has taken part in many Polish organ festivals and has also performed in Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, e Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Slovakia, Switzerland, Sweden, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Lebanon, and in both North and South America. He has been active as a teacher as the professor of the Organ Department at the Academy of Music in Kraków and the Władysław Żeleński State School of Music in Kraków. He collaborates with numerous music ensembles including Krakow Philharmonic and National Philharmonic in Warsaw. Kraków music lovers remember his unforgettable performances of complete organ works of Johann Sebastian Bach in the season 1990/91 and in the Jubilee Year 2000. He also presented an anthology of organ music from the 16 th to the 20 th centuries in a series of 20 concerts under the common title ‘Ars organi’ in the years 2001-2002. In 2006 he was awarded a silver medal `Gloria Artis’ by the Polish Minister of Art and Culture. In his diverse and ever expanding repertoire, embracing all styles, the artist has also performed the complete organ works of Dietrich Buxtehude, Nicolaus Bruhns, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, César Franck, Franz Liszt, and Johannes Brahms. Several of his recordings became a precious contribution to the tape archives of the 2 nd channel of the Polish Radio. He also has recorded 20 CDs. SALUTING THE CHICAGO PHILHARMONIC, transforming audiences with the beauty and power of great music since 1979 © 2018 Albany Bank & Trust Co NA