Joanna Okoń

Dear Friends! On Monday 22 June 2026 at Kredens pod Oknami, 4 Boremlowska Street, we will host Włodzimierz Pigła in the original series of musical meetings by the wonderful violinist Joanna Okoń!

It will be about music, about life among the notes, and we will listen to a violin concert by Joanna Okoń and her musical protégée! Apparently a musical surprise awaits us too!

Włodzimierz Pigła is a Polish music librarian and musicographer. From 1971 to 1976 he studied musicology at the Academy of Catholic Theology in Warsaw under Jerzy Pikulik. Since 1976 he has worked in the Music Collections Department of the National Library in Warsaw, where in 1984 he became a curator, and from 1989 to 1997 he was head of the Department. From 1991 to 1996 he chaired the Music Libraries Section of the Polish Librarians’ Association. Since 1978 he has been an individual member of the Association Internationale des Bibliothèques Musicales, and since 2000 he has worked with the Répertoire International de la Presse Musicale. He has taken part in many national and international librarians’ conferences and also participates in the work of the Music Periodicals Working Group. He has been honoured with the “Zasłużony Działacz Kultury” (Meritorious Cultural Activist) badge (1986) and the Bronze Cross of Merit (1988).

His research interests focus on musicographic and documentation issues relating to Polish music of the 19th and 20th centuries; in particular he devotes himself to work on a bibliography of Chopin transcriptions and of Chopin-related themes in the work of other composers.

You are very warmly invited! We are grateful to Włodzimierz and Asia for their effort and for sharing music, passion and creative time!