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!

Polish organist Michał Szostak will make his first visit to Huddersfield Town Hall on Monday, November 11th, 2024, at 1:00 p.m. A famed improviser, his programme will intersperse three improvisations in varied styles among works by Buxtehude, Bach and Beethoven, including a transcription from Beethoven’s famed Symphony No. 5. Buxtehude – Prelude, Fugue & Chaconne in C Szostak – Improvisation: Italian concertoJ. S. Bach – Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele, BWV 654 Fantasia in G (Pièce d’Orgue), BWV 572 Szostak – Improvisation: Symphonic variationsBeethoven – Allegro con brio (Symphony No. 5) Szostak – Improvisation: Organ Suite About the event – here.

On the 26th and 27th of October 2024, I had the opportunity to perform three recitals at St Casimir Catholic Church in Yonkers, NY, USA. It was an inauguration of the organ that was renovated in the previous months.

I had the pleasure of performing recitals during the 14th International Lviv Organ Festival, hosted by the Lviv Organ Hall in Lviv, Ukraine. Two recitals occurred on Saturday and Sunday, the 19th and 20th of October 2024, at 19:00. Program (click on numbers 4, 7, or 11 to hear the recording)

On Friday, 20th September 2024, at 17.30, I had the privilege to perform a recital during the „IV International Organ Festival” at the Basilica of Santa Maria ad Martyres (Pantheon) in Rome, Italy. Organ by Tamburini (1926/2013), 15/2M+P Program:

Szostak Michał (2024). Baltic Organ Crowns. The Organ, No 409, August-October (Summer) 2024, 27-43. Introduction Between April and July 2024, I had the opportunity to perform recitals on the largest and the most prominent organs of three East Baltic countries: the Republic of Lithuania (25,200 sq mi, 2.8 million inhabitants, Roman Catholics mostly), the Republic of Latvia (24,938 sq mi, 1,9 million inhabitants, Lutherans mostly), and the Republic of Estonia (17,504 sq mi, 1,3 million inhabitants, religionless mostly). These relatively small but closely cooperating and dynamically developing countries have many similarities (e.g., Hansa League history, communist history, regained independence in 1991, EU and NATO membership since 2004) and differences (e.g., separate languages, varied cultures, diverse dominating religions). The reach economic

Lahti Organ Festival: Organ and Circus Fun Michał Szostak, organ & Atte Kilpinen, ballet dancer & circus performers: Milja Jaskari, Lukas Peurala, Ada Sainio, Salla Santanen, Mika Seppälä Thursday, 8th August 2024, 19:00 Organ + Ballet / Circus Artists! This combination is extremely rare, so don’t miss it at the Lahti Organ Festival! The internationally acclaimed organist from Poland, Doctor of Music Michał Szostak, will dust off the organ pipes of the Sibelius Hall as he accompanies one of the most renowned contemporary Finnish ballet dancers, Atte Kilpinen! Atte Kilpinen has choreographed a performance to Beethoven’s symphony. Joining Michał Szostak on stage will be top Finnish circus artists Salla Santanen, Mika Seppälä, Milja Jaskari, Ada Sainio, and Lukas Peurala, who

Description This edited collection presents the complex theory of kitsch from aesthetic and artistic points of view, transposed into managerial and organisational fields. In the spirit of management aesthetics, on the ground of humanistic management, the central aim of the volume is to show that kitsch is a common phenomenon not only in art and culture but also in management, and its conscious perception and mindful use may be beneficial for achieving organisational and managerial goals efficiently. Due to the diverse research problems covered by particular chapters, no unified methodology is applied in the book; every author applied an optimal method for the selected topic. However, due to the complex and metaphysical character of the kitsch phenomenon, the only common

Szostak Michał (2024). Chicago’s Largest Colossus. The Organ, 408 (May-July), 30-43. In March and April 2024, I undertook a Spring recital tour to the United States to perform at a few venues in Chicago, Illinois and San Francisco, California. The first stop on that trip was the Fourth Presbyterian Church in Chigaco, where in 2015, the Quimby Pipe Organs company built the most prominent instrument in the city and the whole Midwest. This article describes the church’s history (one of the largest in the city), the history of its instruments, the current organ and some fundamental facts about the organ-building company that created that colossus.