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

Ilona’s most exciting professional engagements happened at the Oude Kerk, Nieuwe Kerk, Orgelpark and Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, the Sint Laurenskerk in Alkmaar, the Issue Project Room in New York, Right Brain Rising! festival in Arizona, Musica Moderna festival in Lodz, with the US Air Force Strings at St. John’s Episcopal in Washington DC, at the Goteborg International Organ Academy in Sweden, Westfield Conference at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, Annual Organ Conference at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and Princeton Theological Seminary in New Jersey. Since Ilona was a teenager she has been traveling and exploring unique historical organs in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Austria, Great Britain, Ireland, Poland, Spain and Italy. She is fascinated with the historically informed organ building in the US.

Ilona worked as an Assistant Professor of Organ at the Academy of Music in Lodz in Poland, and as a Research Assistant and Faculty Associate at Arizona State University in the US. She graduated from three conservatoria: Academy of Music in Lodz, Poland (Master of Arts), Conservatorium van Amsterdam, the Netherlands (Master of Music), and the School of Music at Arizona State University in USA (Doctor of Musical Arts). Her primary teachers were Kimberly Marshall, the late Jacques van Oortmerssen, Irena Wiselka-Cieslar, and Grazyna Fajkowska. In addition, she traveled to participate in masterclasses and private lessons with: Olivier Latry, Guy Bovet, Ludger Lohmann, the late John Scott, Susan Landale, Pieter van Dijk, Lorenzo Ghielmi, Peter Planyavsky, Wolfgang Seifen, to name a few. She received a scholarship from the Royal College of Organists while studying in Cambridge, UK. Ilona participated in several international organ competitions: she won first prize in the French music interpretation competition in Warsaw, Poland; was a finalist in Leiden, Holland; semifinalist in Ireland, and in Westfield Competition in New York state.

Her 2015 solo album Antique Sound Palette, recorded on the recently restored 1719 Hildebrandt organ in Paslek, Poland, as well as the recordings she made on the Richards & Fowkes organ at Pinnacle were featured on American Public Radio. You can read more about the project on www.ilonakadler.com.

Ilona currently resides in Phoenix, Arizona.  She is the Director of Ministries in Music and Arts & Organist at Pinnacle Presbyterian Church in Scottsdale, AZ. She runs a large and active music program with multiple vocal and instrumental ensembles, plays the masterful Richards, Fowkes op. 14 organ, and promotes high quality local and national performers in over 20 events a season in the Pinnacle Concert Series. Ilona founded the Organ Scholar program, which promotes and educates 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. She is a member of the Presbyterian Association of Musicians, the American Choral Directors Association, and the American Guild of Organists, in which she served as the Education Chair and Board Member in the Central Arizona Chapter for 8 years.

Ilona maintains a private organ studio, performs concerts in the US and Europe as a soloist, chamber musician, in duo Zeelab with Jacob Adler, and in Duo Polonaise with violinist Dagmara Suchon. In her free time she hikes, bikes, enjoys yoga and planks. She is a happy mother of two sons.

Ilona Kubiaczyk-Adler is represented by Windwerk Artists.