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Dates of 2012 series anounced
Posted: 18/10/2011

We are delighted to announce the dates of the 2012 series of summer concerts.

The first concert will take...

Final concert of the 2011 series
Posted: 09/08/2011

The closing concert in the 2011 series of summer concerts in Galway Cathedral takes place on Thursday next, 11...

ConTempo opens the 2011 series
Posted: 08/07/2011

The 2011 series of concerts in Galway Cathedral opened last night with a concert by ConTempo Quartet with David...

We need Friends!
Posted: 21/06/2011

With the opening concert of new series drawing ever closer, we invite you to participate in the Friends scheme....

Programmes complete!
Posted: 18/05/2011

We have now received programmes from all performers in the upcoming series, and they have been uploaded to the...

Summer Concerts 2011
Posted: 15/04/2011

The 2011 series of summer concerts in Galway Cathedral has been announced!

Galway Cathedral Recitals is...

Józef Kotowitcz, organ

Thursday 28 July 2011 - 20:00

Józef Kotowicz is organist and lecturer in organ and improvisation at the music school and high school in Bialystok, in eastern Poland. He is also organist at the Church of Saint Wojciech/Adalbertus in Bialystok. In 1993 he graduated from the Bialystok branch of the Fréderic Chopin Music University of Warsaw. He continued his education in Warsaw in the organ class of Professor J. Serafin, graduating finally with a doctorate.

He has participated in numerous national and international organ festivals in such countries as Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Slovakia, Byelorussia, Lithuania and the USA. He is also author of a radio broadcast series devoted to organs of north-east Poland and of recordings made for Polish television. His articles have been published in professional music magazines in Denmark. He has published a CD of organ music from the cathedral basilica in Bialystok. He works also with Bialystok Philharmonic Society, participating in oratorio concerts. He is artistic director of Cathedral Organ Concerts in Bialystok and several festivals in the region, and is chairman of Bialystok’s Association Musica Sacra.

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Preludium and fuge e-moll BWV 548
Herr Jesu Christ dich zu uns wend BWV 655

Mieczyslaw Surzynski (1866-1925)

Improvisation on the Polish sacred song "Swiety Boze"

R. Twardowski (b. 1937)

Romanza

Einar Traerup Sark (1921-2005)

Toccata Primi Toni, op. 11

Oskar Lindberg (1887-1955)

Psalm from Dalarna

Stefan Lindblad (b. 1958)

Espanordica

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