Tomasz Adam Nowak (Organist)
Tomasz Adam Nowak was born in 1962 in Warsaw. He graduated from the Frédéric
Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw and subsequently trained in Munich, Paris and
Amsterdam. His teachers have included Joachim Grubich, Franz Lehrndorfer,
Marie-Claire Alain and Ewald Kooiman. Tomasz Adam Nowak has been a
prize-winner at numerous international organ competitions, among them the Franz
Liszt Competition in Budapest, the Karl Böhm Competition in Lüneburg, the Karl
Richter Competition in Berlin and the Johann Sebastian Bach Competition in
Wiesbaden. Moreover, in 1994 the organist was the winner of the renowned
International Improvisation Competition in Haarlem (Netherlands).
From 1995 to 2001 Nowak taught at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende
Kunst Frankfurt am Main and at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität in Mainz.
Since 2001 he has been a professor of the organ and improvisation class at the
Hochschule für Musik in Detmold and he directs the church music department
there; moreover, since 1999 he has been the Principal Organist at the St
Lamberti Kirche in Münster.
Nowak specialises in organ music by Johann Sebastian Bach, works by Max Reger
and 20th and 21st century music; he is a master of improvisation. He has given
recitals in numerous famous churches and concert halls including cathedrals in
Berlin, Munich, Cologne, Passau, Brussels and Vienna, the Dramatisches Theater
and the Philharmonie in Berlin, the Gewandhaus in Leipzig and the Philharmonic
Halls of St Petersburg, Bilbao and Warsaw. Tomasz Adam Nowak regularly gives
lessons at international master-classes; he has been a member of the jury at
international organ competitions in Chartres and Haarlem. The organist works
with various symphony orchestras in Germany as well as abroad and is also
Artistic Director of the International Organ Festival in Westfalen-Lippe.
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