Dr. Krzysztof Niegowski graduated from The Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice in prof. Józef Świder’s class of composition and prof. Jan Wojtacha’s class of conducting choirs. He received the PhD degree in The Stanisław Moniuszko Academy of Music in Gdańsk. Nowadays he is a lecturer at Adam Mickiewicz University, a director of Diocesan Study Center for Organists and an organist in St. Nicholas Cathedral in Kalisz. He conducts three choirs: Kalisz Cathedral Choir Canticum, Students’ Choir Punctum Quadratum, and The Diocesan Study Center for Organists Choir in Kalisz with which he performed in concerts in Ukraine, Austria, Germany, France, Holland, China. He is an organizer and musical life animator, a jury member of various choral and vocal competitions as well as a speaker at national and international music conferences, among others in Lithuania and Turkey. He is an author of publications and articles connected with sacred music. Krzysztof Niegowski is a member of The Association of Polish Church Musicians, The Diocesan Commission for Sacred Music in Kalisz, and a member of the management of The Association of Cultural Education for Children and Youth "Schola Cantorum" in Kalisz. He is an active composer specializing in vocal-instrumental music. Among his compositions it is worth mentioning: choral pieces e.g: Magnificat, Little Litany of St. Joseph, musical arrangements of Polish fairy tales for children choir which are used as obligatory at Polish National Children and Youth a Cappella School Choirs Festival in Bydgoszcz, and vocal and instrumental pieces: Stabat Mater, Cantata to St. Nicholas, Apostolic Oratorio, Hymnum gloriae tuae canimus, Ave verum. Music composed to John Paul II's Roman Triptych - the 2nd part: Meditations on the Book of Genesis at the Threshold of the Sistine Chapel which was first performed on 11 June 2017 in St. Nicholas Cathedral under the direction of the composer.
Adam Mickiewicz University Education and art Faculty, Kalisz, Poland tel +48 605069848