The international Royal Cracow Piano Festival, a yearly series of five piano concerts, was the venue for the first recital of Slawomir Zubryzycki’s viola organista. Zubryzycki primarily performed pieces usually played by a cello or viola de gamba. This showed the unique timbre of the instrument, as Zubryzycki was able to approximate various bowed strings.

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Icelandic singer Bjork primarily wrote and recorded her 2015 album Vulnicura at her house in Brooklyn Heights, New York. Bjork maintains a high-quality studio environment within her home but uses external studios for recording groups of string players that cannot fit in her house. From New York, she was able to collaborate with her team of producers, as well as with Slawomir Zubryzycki in order to obtain viola organista recordings when Vulnicura Strings was released in late 2015.