Kamil Mika — Organ
Kamil Mika was educated at the Academy of Music in Kraców under Prof. Andrzej Białko where he graduated with M.Mus. Diploma in Organ performance in 2014. He continued his music studies at the Hochschule für Musik in Mainz with Prof. Gerhard Gnann and took part in several organ masterclasses in Europe with such professors as Olivier Latry, Daniel Roth, Ben van Oosten, Wolfgang Zerer, Harald Vogel, Lorenzo Ghielmi, Guy Bovet, Pieter van Dijk, David Titterington, Jane Parker-Smith and Christophe Mantoux.
Kamil has won several awards including First Prize in the International Organ Competition in Castellana Grotte (Italy, 2011) and Third Prize in the National Competition of Organ and Chamber Music Per Artem ad Astra in Krasnobrod (Poland, 2007). In 2019 he was awarded a scholarship from the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage to develop the Polish Organ Music Festival in Cracow, in which he acted as a director and a performer.
As recitalist, he has played in music festivals in Austria, Czech Republic, England, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Scotland, Spain, Ukraine and Wales. The concerts took place at such venues as Chapel of the Royal Palace in Madrid, St. Paul's Cathedral in London, St Giles' Cathedral in Edinburgh, the Arctic Cathedral in Tromsø, Uzhgorod Philharmonic, the cathedrals of Barcelona, Salamanca, Cagliari, Tallinn, Fulda, Leeds, Bradford, the universities of Glasgow and St Andrews, and churches in Budapest, Padova, Prague, Seville and Vienna among others.
Kamil's repertoire ranges from early to contemporary organ music, including most major works of Bach, Mendelssohn, Franck and Duruflé.
He plays organ regularly with ensembles, orchestras and choirs; last year he performed Duruflé's Requiem with Aberdeen Bach Choir in St Machar's Cathedral and recorded for BBC Radio 4 with the University of Aberdeen Chapel Choir. In 2025 he will be performing Surzyński's Organ Concerto with Pori Sinfonietta in the Pori Organ Festival in Finland.
Kamil is based in Aberdeen, where he is organist at St James Episcopal Church and King's College Chapel of the University of Aberdeen. He is currently President of Aberdeen and District Organists' Association.
