Goldberg Baroque Ensemble, Goldberg Vocal Ensemble & Andrzej Szadejko
Biography Goldberg Baroque Ensemble, Goldberg Vocal Ensemble & Andrzej Szadejko
The Goldberg Baroque Ensemble
founded by Andrzej Szadejko in 2008 and directed since then, specializes in interpretations of vocal-instrumental music from old Gdańsk and Pomerania. The ensemble’s baroque-classical repertoire is performed on the basis of historical performance practice with appropriate instruments. The orchestra is made up of Polish and foreign musicians, graduates of renowned European centers for early music (Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, Royal Academy of Music in London, Koninklijk Conservatorium in The Hague). The ensemble is responsible for concerts in Poland and abroad as well as award-nominated 14 CDs and SACD’s premiere recordings of Pomeranian Music for Polish labels Dux and Sarton, and now for the German label – MDG, which aim is to promote music from the Baltic region.
Andrzej Szadejko
Composer, conductor, organist, pedagogue, organologist, music life organizer and culture manager.
He studied organ performance at the Academy of Music in Gdańsk under Prof. Leon Bator, graduated with distinction from the Academy of Music in Warsaw in the organ class of Prof. Joachim Grubich, and completed his studies at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (Hochschule für Alte Musik) in the organ class of Jean-Claude Zehnder. At the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, he also graduated with distinction in vocal studies under Richard Levitt and took a composition course with Rudolf Lutz. He actively participated in 30 masterclasses in organ, harpsichord, and fortepiano in Poland, Germany, the Netherlands, and Switzerland.
He is a finalist and laureate of organ competitions in Rumia, Gdańsk, Warsaw, Odense (Denmark), and Bruges (Belgium). In 2002, he defended his doctoral dissertation at the Academy of Music in Łódź, and in 2012 he obtained the post-doctoral degree (habilitation) in musical arts at the Academy of Music in Poznań. In 2021, he was awarded the title of Professor of Musical Arts.
He was a scholarship holder of the City of Basel (Switzerland), Rapps-Stiftung (Switzerland), Doms-Stiftung (Switzerland), the Organ Summer Academy in Haarlem (Netherlands), the Institute of Music and Dance, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, the President of the City of Gdańsk, the Marshal of the Pomeranian Voivodeship, and the Foundation for Culture.
Since 1994, he has regularly performed in Poland, Europe, as well as in the USA and Russia (he has given over 700 concerts) as a soloist, chamber musician, and conductor. In addition to his organ concert activity, he is also involved in composition. In 2011, thanks to a Young Artists’ Scholarship from the Marshal of the Pomeranian Voivodeship, his Missa Brevis for 8-part a cappella choir was published by the music publisher Polihymnia. In 2018/2019, four volumes of organ compositions were published by the Academy of Music in Gdańsk. He is the author of numerous solo and chamber organ compositions premiered in Poland, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, the USA, the United Kingdom, Norway, and Russia.
He is currently a professor at the Department of Church Music at the Academy of Music in Gdańsk, where he teaches organ performance and basso continuo realization. He has delivered lectures and taught courses in organ music interpretation in Poland, as well as at the Faculty of Music at the University of Oulu in Finland, the Faculty of Musicology at the University of Greifswald, the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor (USA), the Academy of Music in Vilnius, and the State Music Gymnasium in Cēsis.
He has served as an expert consultant on many organ projects in Poland and abroad, including the Merten Friese organ (1618) in the Franciscan Church of the Holy Trinity in Gdańsk, the Johann Rohde organ (1760) in St. John’s Church in Gdańsk, the Rudolph Dalitz organ (1787) in Różyny, the Eduard Wittek organ (1911) in the Salesian Church of St. John Bosco in Gdańsk-Orunia, the Eduard Wittek organ (1918) in Rumia, and in the Franciscan Church in Vilnius (authorial concept, 2022). From 2020 to 2025, he served as curator of the organ at the St. John’s Centre in Gdańsk.
