Koncert Organowy Piotra Rachonia
Parafia Sw. Floriana w Hamtramck
25 wrzesnia o godz. 3:00 pm

Sunday, September 25, 2011 – 3:00 p.m.
Free Admission

Is a graduate of the Frederic Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw where he earned two master degrees in music (cum laude), one from the academy’s Piano, Harpsichord and Organ Department in 1994, and the other from the school’s Church Music Division in 2004. Thanks to a grant from the Italian Government and the Polish Ministry of Culture and Art, he underwent training at the Academia Musicale Chigiana in Sienna in 1994. He is also a 1999 alumnus of the Papal Theological Department’s Institute of Professional Organ Training in Warsaw. Postgraduate studies in organ performance took place with Prof. Andrzej Chorosiński at Warsaw’s Academy of Music in 2006.

Rachoń leads an active concert life performing as soloist, chamber musician and  accompanist both in Poland and abroad (Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Israel, Italy, Lithuania, Russia, Spain and Turkey). Among his artistic achievements are CD recordings made in Poland and Germany. At 2008 together with Michele Croese organized master classes in Italy (Perinaldo) during which young students from Warsaw had opportunity to play on original Italian historical organs and study Italian music. Since 2002, Rachoń has been an organist at the Warsaw Archdiocesan Cathedral-Basilica of St. John the Baptist, and since 2006, he has been the cathedral’s principal organist. Currently, he is a lecturer at the Cardinal Wyszyński University. He has also been a member of the Archdiocese of Warsaw’s Church Music Commission since 2004.

In August 2008, Piotr Rachoń, a grantee of the Kosciuszko Foundation in New York, begins his doctoral studies as a scholarship student and teaching assistant at the Moores School of Music at the University of Houston. In Texas he will pursue studies in music performance under the tutelage of the internationally famous organist Robert Bates.