
Organist
&composer
Adam Tański is a graduate of the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse in Paris, Hochschule für Musik Mainz and the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw. His teachers and mentors were: Michel Bouvard, Olivier Latry, Gerhard Gnann, Magdalena Czajka and Jarosław Wróblewski.
In 2015-2017, Adam Tański was a pedagogue at the Grażyna and Kiejstut Bacewicz Academy of Music in Łódź.
The laureate of:
• the special prize at the 5th Feliks Nowowiejski International Organ Competition in Poznań (2015)
• 1st prize at the International Organ Competition “European Baroque Organs” in Katowice (2014),
The artist is a valued improviser, improvisations are an important element of his concert programs, and he fully shows the quintessence of his creative possibilities in performances accompanied by silent films and animations. He regularly conducts master classes in interpretation and organ improvisation.
He gives concerts at festivals in Poland and abroad. In 2017, he received a scholarship of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage for research work on the historical organ, whereas in 2018 he carried out an educational project for children focused on the historical organs of the capital city as part of the artistic scholarship of the City of Warsaw. In 2019, Requiem Records released his debut album with organ improvisations entitled Polychrome.
In addition, Adam Tański is a co-founder and artistic director of the festival Etnosakralia Kurpiowskie, combining organ music with traditional and improvised music; he is also an active composer. In 2018 his first monographic publication containing five pieces for keyboard instruments was released in the publishing series “Biblioteczka Kurpiowska.” Since 2023, he has also been the artistic curator of the Misspresent Art festival, organized by the Institute of National Remembrance.