Adam Jarczyk, born 1970, from Zabrze, Poland, founder and director of ad artem musicae, has been an avid choir singer ever since his youth, having got to know all kinds of music during these early and formative years. Together with the youth choir he was part of he participated in numerous international choir competitions, and more often than not with highest success. Meanwhile he started his studies and after some while earned his degree (mgr inż.) in Electronic Engineering from Silesian Technical University in Gliwice. After having worked in the field for several more years he took a change in his professional career and due to his interest in and love of languages got involved in a more creative enterprise, working as a freelance technical translator, which earned him the necessary background to be the company’s wizard when it comes to technical matters (so far mostly in terms of website creation and maintenance).

Speaking of being a professional translator... he is also the person responsible for the Polish version of the catalogue and website, having translated all the Polish language versions necessary for our venture. But back to music: At some point in his choir career he got interested in international projects, was repeatedly selected as Polish member of the “Multinational Chamber Choir in Austria”, and finally (in 2000) became one of the founding members of the multinational project “Early Music Days Vienna”. And last but no way least, he also is responsible for the final layout of ad artem musicae’s editions once they have been prepared by other members of the team.

Manfred Novak, born 1977, from Vienna, Austria (and currently temporarily residing in Amsterdam / The Netherlands), is ad artem musicae’s main musicological consultant in Early Music questions, as well as a commissioned composer and arranger to our publishing house. He is a musician by profession, having spent one whole year of his studies in Gothenburg, Sweden in the course of his education in 2003/04 and finally having earned his MMag. in Organ and Catholic Church Music (with special emphasis, in the latter case, on organ and improvisation as well as on composition) from the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, Austria.

Currently following further studies with Prof. Jacques van Oortmerssen at the Conservatory of Amsterdam and now specializing mostly in Early Music, historical performance practice, and in the course of these studies editing the earliest existing manuscript in New German Organ Tablature as his scientific project, he is our most knowledgeable and treasured advisor.

But his musical interests are not limited to the field of Early Music: As a further area of specialization he is currently working on topic of Spirituals, and thus deepening his knowledge on this important part of American music history. As a singer he is an active performer in styles as diverse as, but not limited to, Early Music and Barbershop. Apart from his performing as a concert and church organist, as well as on other keyboard instruments, and his tasks in terms of music editing and composing for commissions, Manfred Novak has also acted as the musical director of the multinational ensemble of “Early Music Days Vienna” and Vienna-based bi-national “Vokalensemble Mosaik” since 2002.

Monika Fahrnberger, born 1963, from Vienna, Austria, has mainly been responsible for helping with researching editions and making choices towards the catalogue of the house, for inputting the musical selections of the team, writing English language versions of documents and taking care of the organizational matters of the company. She has loved singing since her early childhood, in fact, as long as she can remember. Nourished already in her family, this love of singing grew steadily and led to her becoming active in several choirs working on very different kinds of music in her teenage years. Being interested also in fields other than music she enrolled at Vienna University in theology and English and American Studies and obtained private tuition both in music and in several further languages in addition to those she had already been taught at school.

Currently she works at Vienna University in the Department of English and American Studies and is also active in translation matters. She has become highly interested in networking through music, is on the Advisory Group for ChoralNet, the Internet Center for Choral Music, and is an active member in the International Federation of Choral Music. She has been a delegate to several World Choir Symposia and plans to continue her international engagement at an even higher level. As a performer she supports Manfred Novak as a singer in “Vokalensemble Mosaik” and “Early Music Days Vienna” (she is another founding member of that group), as well as in questions of voice technique, repertoire research and in taking responsibility for the organization of these two groups.