Bartłomiej Stankowiak
Bartłomiej Stankowiak studied symphonic conducting under prof. Renard Tchaikovsky at the Academy of Music in Poznań, from which he graduated in 1993. He is a habilitated doctor, professor at the University of Zielona Góra. With the mixed choir of this Institute, he has performed many times in Poland and abroad, presenting both vocal and vocal-instrumental forms. In 2005, he founded the vocal ensemble "Vox humana", which focused its repertoire around sacred music of the past, but it also reaches to contemporary music. For many years he collaborated with the baroque orchestra "Accademia dell'Arcadia". With this ensemble, he recorded five CDs from the "Musica Restituta" series, devoted to the eighteenth-century musical culture of Wielkopolska. Under his direction, the orchestra has also recorded three albums with music from Jasna Góra, released in the "Musica claromontana" series. He collaborates with the German-Polish Youth Orchestra. He leads the Chamber Choir of the University of Zielona Góra "Cantus humanus". He is the initiator and artistic director of the magna Opera Sacra concert cycle (www.magnaoperasacra.pl), in which, in cooperation with the Arte dei Suonatori Orchestra, the greatest oratorio works of the Baroque and Classicism eras are staged. In the current term, he is the Director of the Institute of Music at the University of Zielona Góra.
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