In May and June 2025, I will visit eight venues in the US and Canada to perform recitals at: 2025/05/18 – USA – Grand Rapids MI, Fountain Street Church2025/05/22 – USA – Ogdensburg NY, St Mary’s Cathedral2025/05/25 – USA – New Bedford MA, Saint Anthony of Padua2025/05/27 – USA – Washington DC, The Church of the Epiphany2025/06/01 – USA – San Francisco CA, Trinity and St. Peter’s Episcopal Church2025/06/06 – USA – Reno NV, Trinity Episcopal Cathedral2025/06/08 – USA – Berkeley CA, St Mark’s Episcopal Church2025/06/10 – CANADA – Toronto ON, St James Cathedral (Anglican)

In the first days of May, I have the pleasure of performing three recitals in the UK. On 2nd May at 1.00 pm in Leeds Minster. On 3rd May at 1.00 pm in Wilmslow, Cheshire, at St Bartholomew’s Church. And on 4th May at 2.00 pm in Patrington, East Yorkshire, at St Patrick’s Church.

Great Britain plays a central role among dozens of venues I enjoy visiting and performing at annually. The grand tradition of British organ music has long been celebrated through its majestic spaces, histor-ic instruments, and the artistry of those who bring them to life. This unique two-CD collection, British Organ Majesty, offers an extraordinary journey through five remarkable venues, each home to an organ of distinctive character and history. From the grandeur of Hull City Hall and Huddersfield Town Hall to the sacred resonance of Blackburn Cathedral, the elegance of St Stephen’s Walbrook in the heart of London, and the rich heritage of Centenary Methodist Church, Boston, this album showcases a pano-rama of organ artistry across time and place.Each of

Thursday, 20 March 2025, 11:30-16:00 The scientific conference „Aesthetics of humanistic management in the artificial intelligence era” was part of a research project held by the Institute for Management Research at Collegium Civitas involving over 30 scientists from Algeria, Poland, Turkey, and Great Britain, representing disciplines such as management, marketing, media, education, political science, sociology, psychology, philosophy, aesthetics, and art. The conference presented research results showing aesthetic insight into problems concerning the paradox between preserving humanistic values in contemporary social and organisational activity and increasingly widely implemented solutions using artificial intelligence. Professor Monika Kostera (Poland), Professor Antonio Strati (Italy), Professor Steve Taylor (USA), Professor Łukasz Sułkowski (Poland, Doctor Ernst von Kimakovitz (Switzerland), and Professor Abdul Rahman (Malaysia) were the conference’s honorary guests and speakers.

Szostak, M. (2025). The Sibelius Concert Hall Organ in Lahti, Finland, The Organ, 411(Feb-April 2025), pp. 10-29. The Republic of Finland is a Nordic country in the northern part of Europe that borders Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and Finland to the south, opposite Estonia. Finland covers a total area of 130,559 sq miles, including a land area of 117,304 sq miles, and has a population of 5.6 million citizens who are primarily ethnic Finns. Helsinki is the capital and largest city. Finnish and Swedish are official languages; however, 85% of the population speak Finnish. The land cover is a boreal forest biome, with over

2024/11/11 – UK – Huddersfield, Town Hall2024/10/27 – USA – Yonkers NY, St Casimir Catholic Church2024/10/26 – USA – Yonkers NY, St Casimir Catholic Church2023/10/20 – UKRAINE – Lviv, Lviv Organ Hall2023/10/19 – UKRAINE – Lviv, Lviv Organ Hall2024/09/20 – ITALY – Rome, Pantheon2024/08/08 – FINLAND – Lahti, Sibelius Hall – Lahti Organ Festival2024/07/14 – LATVIA – Liepāja, Holy Trinity Cathedral2024/06/28 – ITALY – Bologna, Basilica di S. Antonio da Padova2024/06/12 – ESTONIA – Rapla, Maarja-Magdaleena Kirik2024/06/11 – ESTONIA – Tallinn, Kaarli Kirik2024/06/11 – POLAND – Wilków, kościół św. Mikołaja2024/05/31 – UK – London, St Margaret Lothbury2024/05/13 – UK – Boston, Centenary Methodist Church2024/05/11 – UK – Ellerker, St Anne Church2024/05/10 – UK – Warwick, St Marry2024/05/04 – ITALY –

Szostak Michał (ed.) (2024). Non-Artistic Kitsch. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan / Springer Nature Switzerland, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-72237-0 About the book The book aims to provide a contemporary individual with an extensive but focused set of examples of kitsch in non-artistic spheres to create theoretical and practical backgrounds for conscious recognition of kitsch in fields like psychology, education, politics, law, religion, terrorism, television, or journalism. Two perspectives are underlined: 1) the consciousness of the presence and role of kitsch experience within the philosophy of living and 2) the management of kitsch experience within the philosophy of living (kitsch as a means for achieving goals). Due to the diverse topics covered by particular chapters, no unified methodology is applied in the whole volume. However, due

Szostak, M. (2024) ‘Phenomenological Perspectives in Dialectical Leadership: Influence of Aesthetic Experiences on Managing Organisational Complexity and Paradoxes’, Discourses on Culture, 22(1), pp. 41–76. doi: 10.2478/doc-2024-0009. Abstract: Through a critical literature review, the study analyses the influence of leaders’ sensory and emotional experiences on shaping their capacity to navigate contradictions and tensions inherent in complex organisational environments. By engaging with concepts of embodied perception, multisensory engagement, and aesthetic judgment, the article highlights how these factors contribute to leaders’ decision-making processes and their ability to foster creative resolutions in paradoxical situations, offering a phenomenological perspective that emphasises the importance of leaders’ subjective experiences in managing organisational complexity. The article answers the following research questions: 1) How do subjective aesthetic experiences (including

The guests of the „Motywy” program were: Olga Drenda – journalist, cultural anthropologist, author of the books: „Wyroby. Pomysłowość okolic nas” and „Duchologia”, Wiganna Papina – stylist, make-up artist and costume designer and dr hab. Michał Szostak – author of the book „Non-Artistic Kitsch”. Link to the recording – here.

Seven months after finishing the whole procedure of a Habilitated Doctorate (a permanent Associate Professorship) in Management (Social Sciences), I received the diploma. Still, it is a great joy and pleasure to keep a tangible artefact in own hands!