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Mateusz Smoczynski

Born: March 6, 1984

Mateusz Smoczyński, an internationally-acclaimed Polish jazz violinist, winner of Grand Prix of the Zbigniew Seifert Jazz Competition or 2017 Best Jazz Violinist award of the Jazz Forum European Magazine. A sought-after soloist and ensemble leader, considered one of the most multi-faceted Polish contemporary music composers. Co-founder of Atom String Quartet, leader of MS Quintet featuring pianist Jan Smoczyński, guitarist Konrad Zemler, double-bassist Wojciech Pulcyn with Michał Miśkiewicz on drums. He has collaborated with many renowned artists, Branford Marsalis, Bobby McFerrin, Gil Goldstein, Zbigniew Namysłowski, Tomasz Stańko, Urszula Dudziak, Władysław “Adzik” Sendecki, Leszek Możdżer, Jerzy Maksymiuk, Anna Maria Jopek, and many others

Yazz Ahmed with Emel and Rabih Abou-Khalil at Barbican Hall

by Chris May
December 19, 2022

Yazz Ahmed With Emel And Rabih Abou-Khalil Barbican Hall jny:London 13 December, 2022 The intersection of jazz and classical Arabic music, both of which have improvisation and rhythm at their core, has long been fertile ground for exploration. Tonight's concert featured two adepts in the field, the British-Bahraini trumpeter Yazz Ahmed ...

Sounds Good

By Fryderyk HD

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2021
Track listing: First Cycle (Intro); Little Prince; Looking Back; LnF; Spaced Out; Passing (Interlude); DeScent; Core Alchemist; Between You and Me; SG.

Stefan Braun & Mateusz Smoczynski: Keep On Turnin'

by Ian Patterson
January 28, 2021

A violin and cello duo might spark thoughts of chamber music, but Polish violinist Mateusz Smoczynski and German cellist Stefan Braun, classically trained though they are, are improvising musicians at heart; with Keep on Turnin' they revisit the jazz, fusion and funk songs that provided the soundtrack in their formative years. Though this is Smoczynski and ...

Speaking Sound

By Mateusz Smoczynski

Label: ACT Music
Released: 2020
Track listing: Epilog der Hoffnung; Maria; Love And Peace; No. 40; Schubertauster; After The Morning; I‘m Better Off Without You; Glückszahl 23; Paganini

Keep On Turnin'

Label: Seifert Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Higher Ground; Some Skunk Funk; Stratus: Black Ice In Rio; Fat Lip; Pools; Trane’s Mode; Turbulent Plover; Pass It On; Nothing Personal; Invitation.

4th Zbigniew Seifert International Jazz Violin Competition

by Ian Patterson
July 19, 2020

4th Zbigniew Seifert International Jazz Violin Competition Cricoteka Museum, Kraków, Poland/Various international locations on-line July 8-10, 2020 When the fanfare and drum roll had died down the big moment arrived. After three days of on-line competition, the six finalists waited anxiously in front of their screens, in Israel, The USA, Austria, ...

Atom String Quartet: Penderecki

by Ian Patterson
January 20, 2020

Following its stunning interpretation of the music of Polish jazz violinist Zbigniew Seifert on Seifert (Zbigniew Seifert Foundation, 2017), Atom String Quartet turns its attention to the oeuvre of another great of contemporary Polish music--classical composer and conductor Krzysztof Penderecki. Born in 1933, Penderecki's writing encompasses choral works, operas, symphonies, concerti, chamber music, sacred music, and ...

Zach Brock: Jazz Violin's New Wave

by Angelo Leonardi
September 12, 2018

Best known for his work with Snarky Puppy, Zach Brock is among the most creative violinists of his generation. Zach Brock is bringing the violin back to center stage. Influenced by European masters of the seventies like Jean-Luc Ponty, Zbigniew Seifert, Didier Lockwood, Brock has widened his perspective from modern jazz to rock, finding a synthesis ...

Mateusz Smoczynski: Metamorphoses

by Ian Patterson
June 13, 2018

Though violinist Mateusz Smoczyński has played with the likes of Tomasz Stanko, Branford Marsalis, Joachim Kuhn and Anna Maria Jopek, he's perhaps best known internationally for his four-year stint in Turtle Island Quartet and, currently, Atom String Quartet. With the latter, Smoczyński recorded Seifert (Zbigniew Seifert Foundation, 2017), its brilliant tribute to violin virtuoso Zbigniew Seifert. ...