Marcin Szelest is professor of organ at the Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music in Kraków, Poland.
He has performed as a soloist and with numerous period instrument ensembles, including Concerto Palatino, European Hanseatic Ensemble, The Bach Ensemble, Vasa Consort, Ensemble Weser-Renaissance Bremen and Wrocław Baroque Orchestra, and recorded for Accent, CD Accord, Claves, cpo, Motette, Musicon and Warner Classics.
His habilitation thesis, “Stylistic changes in Italian organ music at the turn of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries” (2007), was awarded the Polish Prime Minister prize. In 2003 – 2022 he was organist of the Holy Cross Church in Krakow.
His publications include editions of the collected works of Stanisław Sylwester Szarzyński (2015) and Adam Jarzębski (2021), as well as of the Braunsberg/Oliva tablatures (2021) and the “Warsaw Organ Tablature” (2024).
He is a member of the Scientific Board of the series “Fontes Musicae in Polonia” and artistic director of the festivals Omnia Beneficia and 1679.org in Stary Sącz, Poland.
