PhD Marek Fronc

Graduate of the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw (organ class of Prof. Andrzej Chorosiński, diploma with distinction). He continued his studies privately under Prof. Wolfgang Zerer in Hamburg, as well as at international organ masterclasses led by, among others, Julian Gembalski, Tomasz Adam Nowak, Ewald Kooiman, Ludger Lohmann, Hans Fagius, Olivier Latry, Daniel Roth, Ulrik Spang-Hanssen, and Siegbert Rampe.

He is a laureate of international organ competitions in Landau a.d. Isar (Germany) and Saint-Maurice (Switzerland). As a soloist and chamber musician he has performed at music festivals in Poland, Germany, Denmark, Spain, Ukraine, and Hungary. He has collaborated with numerous soloists, conductors, as well as instrumental and vocal ensembles. He also works regularly with the National Forum of Music Choir in Wrocław under Agnieszka Franków-Żelazny. He has participated in CD recordings for the labels Acte Préalable, MegaVox, DUX, and Ars Sonora.

In 2014 he obtained the degree of Doctor of Musical Arts in instrumental performance. He is currently a lecturer at the Department of Church Music at the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław, where he coordinates the concert series Advent Concerts at the Pauline Fathers’ and the artistic-educational project Historic Organs of Lower Silesia. He also serves as faculty advisor for the Student Artistic and Scientific Circle of Church and Organ Music. His scholarly activity focuses on church and organ music as well as organology. He cooperates with the Diocesan Institute of Church Music in Legnica and the Department of Church Music of the Legnica Diocesan Curia.