Doctor of Arts and Doctor of Economics, Director of the Centre for Revived Music based in Szczecin, and organist at the Pestalozzistraße Synagogue in Berlin.

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In 2015, he graduated with highest honors in organ performance from the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, where he studied in the class of Professor Andrzej Chorosiński. As part of the Erasmus program, he also studied at the Kunstuniversität Graz in the class of Professor Gunther Rost. Since 2017, he has been a lecturer at the Academy of Art in Szczecin. From 2018, he directed the Jewish Music Days in Szczecin festival, which has since evolved into the Festival of Revived Music. Since 2020, he has collaborated with the Jewish Community of Berlin as organist of the Pestalozzistraße Synagogue—the only synagogue in Germany that continues the 19th-century musical traditions of Reform Judaism to this day.

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In 2021, he received a Doctorate in Musical Arts by the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław, and in 2022 he received a Doctorate in Economics from the University of Economics in Katowice.

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In 2023, the Requiem Records label released his solo album THE ECHO OF THE TEMPLE, featuring world premiere recordings of works dedicated to him by Adam Porębski, Aleksandra Chmielewska, Anna Maria Huszcza, Marcin Tadeusz Łukaszewski, Dariusz Przybylski, and Ignacy Zalewski. In 2025, he was a recipient of a scholarship from the Minister of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland.

 

He has given lectures and concerts in dozens of cities across Poland as well as in Germany, the Czech Republic, Sweden, Austria, Israel, and even in such exotic locations as the organ-equipped synagogue in Kingston, Jamaica.

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His projects and initiatives are increasingly recognized as historically significant or groundbreaking. He participated in the first concert in the postwar history of Warsaw’s synagogues to include organ repertoire, held at the Nożyk Synagogue. In Berlin, he made the first-ever recordings of organ works by Arno Nadel, the prewar musical director of Berlin’s synagogues. At his initiative, the music of Warsaw’s most renowned Jewish composers and cantors—Jakub Weiss and Dawid Ajzensztadt—was performed and recorded for the first time in modern times. At the Tempel Synagogue in Kraków, he was the first to perform works by Eliezer Goldberg after the war, and in Białystok he restored a song by Moshe Rabinowicz—both of whom served for decades as cantors in these cities. In his hometown of Szczecin, he initiated the virtual reconstruction of the New Synagogue, destroyed in 1938, and prepared the celebrations marking the 150th anniversary of its inauguration.

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The subject of his doctoral dissertation in the arts was “The Works of Jewish Organ Music Composers of Central Europe, 1810–1938”—the first monograph on this topic in Polish scholarship. The dissertation received third prize in the 10th Majer Bałaban Competition for the best doctoral theses on Jews and Israel, organized by the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, becoming the first work in the history of the competition from the field of musical arts.

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Under his leadership, the Centre for Revived Music is developing further pioneering projects that both restore the cultural heritage of Central Europe and inspire composers, artists, and performers to seek new paths of artistic expression.

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Jakub Stefek is also a cultural economist. He completed postgraduate studies at the “Managerial Academy – Modern Business Management Practices” at the Warsaw School of Economics. He has participated in artistic and academic conferences and collaborated with institutions including the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music, the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, the Main Board of the Polish Union of Choirs and Orchestras, and the Mieczysław Karłowicz Philharmonic in Szczecin. He was a TEDx Warsaw speaker, where his talks on inspiration drawn from the organ reached live audiences of several tens of thousands. He is also involved in initiatives promoting the cultural history of Szczecin.

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He is the author of publications including: "Defining Audiences of Organ Music", "Cultural Products in the Opinion of Consumers: The Case of the POLIN Museum", and "Were Organs Hipster? A Historical Instrument in Contemporary Culture". The subject of his doctoral dissertation in economics focused on modeling consumer behavior in the Polish performing arts market.

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He is a member of the Presidential Council for Culture advising the Mayor of the City of Szczecin.