By referring to early music we confirm our lack of acceptance of the spiritual poverty of our times. While listening to Bach, we subconsciously express a yearning for the times when music was a pillar of culture.

Contemporary man, lost in today's world and running after modernity, feels the need of strong support from standing culture examples. Music is the one of the most durable elements of our civilization.

The Academy of Early Music Foundation corresponds to European music heritage of the past centuries in its programme. It continues and develops current Polish early music performance cycle activity. A University Baroque Orchestra – Consortium Iagellonicum operating at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow 1993 – 2000 is a direct precursor of the Academy.

The Foundation was set up in 2008 by Urszula Stawicka, an organist and harpsichordist. The aim of the foundation is to popularize knowledge about early music with a special interest in the West-Pomeranian area. The Foundation's main aim is to support cultural educational and scientific undertakings.

One of the main programme tasks of the Foundation is educational activity which takes place in cooperation with Szczecin 1st and 2nd degree music schools. Musical workshops and courses are permanently organized under the supervision of outstanding pedagogists from across Poland; including prof. Elżbieta Stefańska, Anton Birula, Leszek Rembowski, Tomasz Lisiecki, and Rafael Przybyła.

On such occasions the Foundation organizes concerts presenting early musical instruments. Owing to the Foundation's efforts and popularisation of early music performance, music schools in Szczecin have already become enriched by early musical instruments (copies of Italian harpsichords from the Bizzi Clavicembali Italia company) which were bought having in mind the educational enrichment. This years 6th edition of the Szczecin Early Music Festival will be an occasion to present the beauty and sound of those instruments during a concert of the Festival Workshops' participants.