Harpsichordist and organist, chamber musician and conductor.
One of the most recognizable performers of the historical trend in Poland. He also gives concerts on the clavichord and historical pianos.
In 1991, he founded the Concerto Polacco ensemble specializing in historical performance. He initiated a regular cycle of concerts of oratorio music performed in accordance with historical performance practice in Warsaw, as part of which, for the first time in Poland, such masterpieces were performed on historical instruments, such as Bach's B minor Mass. Many pieces of Old Polish music were also performed or recorded for the first time under the baton of Marek Toporowski.
He gives concerts in Poland and abroad, has made several dozen album recordings in Poland, Germany and France. He made the first phonographic recording of Charles Noblet's harpsichord music and numerous recordings of historical organs in Germany, e.g. in the "Organs of Lower Lusatia" series. He has received the Fryderyk award many times. He is a laureate of the 1st prize of the 1st National Harpsichord Competition named after Wanda Landowska in Krakow (1985).
He graduated from the Academy of Music in Warsaw (organ - Józef Serafin, harpsichord - Leszek Kędracki). Then he perfected his skills in France (Strasbourg), Germany (Saarbrücken) and the Netherlands (Amsterdam) working under the direction of Aline Zylberajch and Bob van Asperen (harpsichord) and Daniel Roth (organ). He received the First Prizes of the Strasbourg Conservatory for organ and harpsichord and the Concert Diploma of the Musikhochschule des Saarlandes (organ).
His didactic activity for many years (since 1991) was associated with the Academy of Music in Katowice. At this university, he created the first harpsichord class in Upper Silesia, then the Baroque orchestra and the Department of Harpsichord and Historical Performance Practices, which he headed in 2012-2015. Since 2016, he has also been associated with the Academy of Music in Krakow. He is a frequent lecturer of master classes. For 20 years he co-organized the Summer Organ Academy in Koszalin.
He collects historical keyboard instruments, the collection is exhibited in the "Fortepianarium" in Zabrze.
