Stadsorgelconcert in de Grote of St. Bavokerk

Dariusz Bąkowski-Kois studied in Krakow, Warsaw, and Vienna with Agnieszka Walczy, Józef Serafin, Magdalena Czajka, and Thomas Schmögner, and attended numerous masterclasses in organ, harpsichord, clavichord, and pianoforte performance practice. Since then, he has been a performing musician in Poland and other countries in Europe, Mexico, Brazil, Russia, and China. He has given recitals at prestigious concert venues such as the Cologne Cathedral, Basilica Papale di San Paolo fuori le Mura in Rome, Antwerp Our Lady Cathedral, Utrecht Cathedral, Metropolitan Cathedral in Moscow, and the National Center for Performing Arts in Beijing. He has been a jury member at many organ competitions. 

In 1997, he graduated from the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, where he obtained his PhD in history in 2002. Since 1999, he has been teaching in the Organ Department of the Academy of Music in Krakow (since 2013 as a full professor), where he teaches organ playing, chamber music, and basso continuo. In 2014, he completed his postdoctoral training in Master of Business Administration-University Management at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. From 2008 to 2012, he was the vice-dean of the Faculty of Instruments, and from 2012 to 2016, he was the vice-rector of the Academy of Music in Krakow. From 2016 to 2020, he was the head of the Organ Department there, a position he resumed in 2024. 

From May to October, concerts are held on Tuesday evenings and in July and August also on Thursday afternoons in the Great or St. Bavo Church by renowned organists from home and abroad.