Alisa Birula, born in 2003, began her musical education at the age of seven, studying piano 
with Professor Maria Grzebalska, at the Szymanowski Music School ZPSM nr.4 in Warsaw, Poland. She has also studied the lute with Klaudyna Żołnierek and «Luteduo» (Anna Kowalska and Anton Birula, her parents).

Since 2015, she has studied organ with Professor Emilia Dziubińska. She has attended master classes with pianists Zofia Antes, and Evgueni Sinaisky, and with organists Ennio Cominetti, Vincent Dubois, Michał Markuszewski, Piotr Rachoń, Vincent Ranger, Wolfgang Seifen, Marek Toporowski, and Johann Vexo.

Ms. Birula’s awards include Second Prize, Polish Nationwide Marian Sawa Organ Competition, 2017, Warsaw, Poland. Second Prize, The Cracow Organ Competition for Young Organists, 2018, Cracow, Poland. Award of Distinction, Polish Nationwide Organ Competition, 2019, Olsztyn, Poland. Third Prize, Festival of Young Organists, 2019, Białystok, Poland. Award of Distinction, Polish and Czech Organ Competition for Music Schools and Conservatories, 2021, Racibórz, Poland. Second Prize, Center 
for Artistic Education Organ Competition, 2022, Wrocław, Poland. Award of Distinction and Special Prize, Competition of Young Organists, 2022, Sanok, Poland.

In 2022 Ms. Birula was awarded a scholarship for her artistic achievements by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage of Poland.

Recital and Festival performances include:

Beethoven Plus

Altaussee, Austria.

The International Music Festival Organ Evenings – Pearls of Baroque

Świnoujście

Autumn with Elsner and Weiss

Grodków

Dramma per Musica

Warszawa

Wrocław Organ Evenings in the Basilica of St. Elisabeth

Wrocław

The International Christmas Organ Festival Adeste Fideles

Sankt-Petersburg, Rosja

Ms. Birula, fluent in lute tablature, has studied the lute works of J.S. Bach’s contemporary, Silesian lutenist, S.L. Weiss. A brilliant composer for the lute, and a lute virtuoso, Weiss’ playing was known to Bach, who had a great interest in the lute and who taught lutenists. Contemporaries compared Weiss’ lute suites favorably with Bach’s keyboard suites.

In 2018, Ms. Birula performed the world premiere of works by S.L. Weiss transcribed for organ at the 330th anniversary of the composer’s birth in his hometown, Grodków, Poland.

In 2018, Ms. Birula joined Luteduo Plus, where she participated in creating new repertoire for organ and plucked instruments, playing both solo and ensemble in festivals around Europe.

Ms. Birula currently studies organ with Professors Zuzana Ferjenčíková and Bas de Vroome at Codarts, Conservatorium of Arts in Rotterdam, Netherlands. She’s still searching for new inspirations and shows no signs of slowing down.