Organist Piotr Rojek studied organ with Professor Andrzej Chorosiński and composition with Professors Zygmunt Herembeszta and Krystian Kiełb at the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music, where he is now a Professor. The musician has recorded over a dozen sound recordings, but the exceptional 2005 recording of nine toccatas by different composers of the 17th and 20th centuries, performed on the historic German organ of Adam Horatio Casparini, the master of the pipe organ of St. Peter's Cathedral in Wołów, is the only one of its kind. It was nominated for the prestigious Fryderyk Award of the Polish Academy of Phonographers. Mr Rojek has been awarded prizes in various competitions for his performances and compositions, and has toured the Czech Republic, Great Britain, Finland, Spain, Italy, Israel, USA, Lithuania, Latvia, Norway, Slovakia, Sweden, Ukraine, Hungary, Lithuania, the USA and Germany. The musician has been awarded for his services to the city of Wrocław. The organist is known at home and abroad as an organ master, a talented composer and improviser. This year's Resurrexit Festival will give the audience the opportunity to hear this music in the language of the Siauliai Cathedral.
The concert will feature a toccata by Johann Sebastian Bach, Polish composer Mieczysław Surzynski's most famous work - an improvisation on the theme of the Polish church hymn "The Holy God", and the organist's own improvisations.