Jakub Pankowiak
Doctor of Musical Arts, graduate of the Academy of Music in Poznań (diploma with distinction) in the organ class of Sławomir Kamiński whose assistant he has been since graduating in 2008. He honed his skills at the Chopin University of Music in Warsaw under Magdalena Czajka, at the Musikhochschule Lübeck under Arvid Gast (as part of the Socrates and Erasmus programmes, 2009), as well as during national and international masterclasses led by outstanding artists.
Jakub Pankowiak is a laureate of many organ competitions in Poland and abroad, including the International Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis Competition in Vilnius (Third Prize and a special prize for the best performance of works by Johann Sebastian Bach, 2011), the National Organ Competition of Performance of Works by Dietrich Buxtehude in Krakow (First Prize, 2008), the International Organ Competition for Young Organists in Opava (an honorary mention, 2006), the Competition of Polish Organ Music in Legnica (First Prize, 2006), the Feliks Nowowiejski International Organ Competition in Poznań (Fourth Prize and prize for the youngest finalist, 2005), the Organ Music Competition as part of the International Rev. Stanisław Ormiński Religious Music Competition in Rumia (Second Prize, 2004), and was also a scholarship holder of the city of Poznań (2010). In 2017, he was honoured with a Decoration for Merit to Polish Culture from the Minister of Culture and National Heritage. In 2022, he was awarded a Bronze Medal for long–Time Service by the President of the Republic of Poland, Andrzej Duda.
He performs as a soloist and accompanist and has given nearly 400 concerts in such distinguished venues as the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, the Berliner Dom and the Warsaw Philharmonic. He has performed in Poland, Lithuania, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and Israel.
Since 2017, Jakub Pankowiak has been regularly collaborating with the Warsaw Philharmonic Choir under the baton of Bartosz Michałowski. Since 2025, he has been an assistant professor at the Academy of Art in Szczecin.
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