Irena Wisełka-Cieślar

Irena Wisełka-Cieślar (* 1950 ) is a Polish organist and music teacher.

Wisełka-Cieślar studied organ at the State University of Music in Lodz with Jan Kucharski and attended master classes by Johannes Ernst Köhler , Guy Bovet , Herbert Wulf , Bruno Oberhammer and others. She has performed as a soloist and chamber musician at organ festivals all over Europe, with the focus of her repertoire in addition to compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach and Olivier Messiaen, works by contemporary Polish composers such as Krzysztof Knittel , Bronisław Kazimierz Przybylski , Bogdan Dowlasz and Sławomir Zamuszko . In 1996 she founded the organ duo A Piacere with Grażyna Fajkowska , with whom she performed in Poland, Germany and Italy.

Since 1982 Wisełka-Cieślar has been teaching at the Lodz Music Academy. From 2005 to 2012 she was Vice Chancellor for Research and Teaching and then Dean of the Piano, Organ, Harpsichord and Old Instruments Department. She also acted as a juror at organ competitions and in 2005 gave a master class at the Conservatory of Enschede. Her students include Joanna Kaja-Vallière , titular organist at Saint-Pierre-Saint-Paul in Paris, and Ilona Kubiaczyk-Adler , who teaches at the University of Arizona . As a cooperation partner of the European Conference for Protestant Church Music , she conducts research in the field of Protestant chant and its effects on the compositions of Johann Sebastian Bach. Wisełka-Cieślar was awarded the Silver and Gold Cross of Merit of the Republic of Poland .

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• Akademia Muzyczna im. Graziny i Kiejstuta Becewiczów - Irena Wisełka-Cieślar