ILONA KUBIACZYK-ADLER is a concert organist, pianist, conductor, artistic director, and educator dedicated to bringing the joy, art, beauty, and tradition of professional music-making to the 21st century. She specializes in illuminating music from Eastern Europe and the Americas, exploring connections between early and contemporary music, and championing works by underrepresented composers. As a performing artist, she has traveled through most of Europe and across South and North America.

Ilona’s most exciting professional engagements have taken her to prestigious venues including the Oude Kerk, Nieuwe Kerk, Orgelpark, and Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam; the Sint Laurenskerk in Alkmaar; the Issue Project Room in New York; and festivals such as Right Brain Rising! festival in Arizona, Musica Moderna in Lodz, and Eccles Organ Festival in Salt Lake City. She has performed with the US Air Force Strings at St. John’s Episcopal in Washington, DC, and has been featured at the Göteborg International Organ Academy in Sweden, the Westfield Conference at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, the Annual Organ Conference at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, the Musforum Conference in Phoenix, Princeton Theological Seminary in New Jersey, and Luther College in Iowa. Most recently, she performed Lou Harrison’s Concerto for Organ with the Crossing 32nd Street Ensemble and Barber’s Toccata Festiva with the Arizona Musicfest Festival Orchestra under Robert Moody.

Ilona served as Assistant Professor of Organ at the Academy of Music in Łódź, Poland, and as Research Assistant and Faculty Associate at Arizona State University.
She holds degrees from three distinguished conservatories: Master of Arts from the Academy of Music in Łódź, Poland; Master of Music from the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, the Netherlands; and Doctor of Musical Arts from the School of Music at Arizona State University. Her primary teachers included Kimberly Marshall, Jacques van Oortmerssen, Irena Wisełka-Cieślar, and Grażyna Fajkowska. She has also participated in masterclasses and private lessons with renowned artists including Olivier Latry, Guy Bovet, Ludger Lohmann, John Scott, Susan Landale, Pieter van Dijk, Lorenzo Ghielmi, Peter Planyavsky, and Wolfgang Seifen. During her studies in Cambridge, UK, she received a scholarship from the Royal College of Organists.

Currently residing in Phoenix, Arizona, Ilona serves as Director of Ministries in Music and Arts & Organist at Pinnacle Presbyterian Church in Scottsdale, AZ. In this role, she directs a large and active music program featuring multiple vocal and instrumental ensembles, and performs on the masterful Richards, Fowkes op. 14 organ. As Artistic Director of the Pinnacle Concert Series, she promotes high-quality local, national, and international performers in over 20 events each season. She founded the Pinnacle Organ Scholar program to promote and educate young musicians. Prior to this appointment she worked as the Associate Director of Music and Organist at All Saints’ Episcopal Church in Phoenix, and the Music Director of the Episcopal Church of the Nativity in Scottsdale.

Ilona maintains active memberships in the Presbyterian Association of Musicians, the American Choral Directors Association, and the American Guild of Organists. She served as Education Chair and Board Member in the Central Arizona Chapter for eight years, and currently serves on the AGO National New Music Committee. She has contributed articles about Eastern Europe and Polish organ music to the online “Organ Encyclopedia” project and has served as an adjudicator an RCYI/Quimby Organ Competition and the Pogorzelski-Yankee Annual Composition Competition. Her 2015 solo album Antique Sound Palette, recorded on the recently restored 1719 Hildebrandt organ in Pasłęk, Poland, along with recordings made on the Richards & Fowkes organ at Pinnacle Presbyterian Church, have been featured on American Public Radio.

Beyond solo performances, she collaborates in duo Zeelab with Jacob Adler and in Duo Polonaise with violinist Dagmara Suchon. In her free time, Ilona enjoys hiking, biking, yoga, and planks. She is a proud mother of two sons.

More information about the artist can be found on www.ilonakadler.com.
Ilona Kubiaczyk-Adler is represented by Windwerk Artists.