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Dawid Lubowicz: Human Fate

by Ian Patterson
January 27, 2025

Dawid Lubowicz is not alone in pondering whether we forge our own destiny or whether it is shaped by forces beyond our control. The question has kept philosophers, religions and fortune tellers in steady work for millennia, and it provided the Polish violinist/mandolinist Lubowicz with the inspiration for the music on Human Fate. Whether it was ...

Mateusz Smoczyński: Adam's Apple

by Ian Patterson
December 18, 2024

Polish violinist Mateusz Smoczyński has long slipped effortlessly between the worlds of jazz and classical music, flitting between his own small jazz combos and contemporary string ensembles. Albums such as Confetti Man (Azica records, 2014) with The Turtle Island Quartet, Penderecki (Universal Music Poland, 2019) with Atom String Quartet, and the duo albums Speaking Sound (ACT ...

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 ...

SONG2

By Bodek Janke

Label: Dreyer Gaido
Released: 2020
Track listing: take on me (a-ha), minority (Shishani Vranckx), what is love (Haddaway), lost (Shishani Vranckx), make me out (Bodek Janke), i fall in love too easily (Jule Styne), rhythm is a dancer (Snap), leidenschaft (Bodek Janke), lay in the sun (Shishani Vranckx), dancing in the dark (Bruce Springsteen)

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 ...

Mateusz Smoczyński

Born: March 6, 1984

Mateusz Smoczyński is a distinguished Polish violinist, composer, and bandleader renowned for his versatility across various musical genres. He is a co-founder of the Atom String Quartet and New Trio, leads a quintet, and performs in a duo with cellist Stephan Braun.

Smoczyński has performed on prominent stages worldwide, both as a soloist and with diverse ensembles, collaborating with acclaimed artists such as Branford Marsalis, Rabih Abou-Khalil, Markus Stockhausen, Paquito D’Rivera, Tomasz Stańko, Zbigniew Namysłowski, Bobby McFerrin, Anna Maria Jopek, Leszek Możdżer, and the NDR Big Band. As soloist he performed with leading Polish orchestras.

Penderecki

By Atom String Quartet

Label: Universal Music Poland
Released: 2019
Track listing: Capriccio for Tuba solo; 3 Miniatures for clarinet e piano: Miniature i allegro; ii andante cantábile; iii allegro ma non troppo; Drei Stücke im alten Stil, ii minuet i; Suite for solo cello, ii serenade; Suite for solo cello, Vii scherzo; Drei Stücke im alten Stil, iii minuet ii; Prelude for solo clarinet Bb; Drei Stücke im alten Stil, I aria.

SONG

By Bodek Janke

Label: Dreyer Gaido
Released: 2018
Track listing: eye of the tiger (Survivor), maria (Melissa Mary Ahern), dharma (Bodek Janke), what is it like (Bodek Janke), autumn leaves (Joseph Kosma), hard luck in love (Melissa Mary Ahern), live is life (Opus), if i loved you (Richard Rodgers), like a trap (Melissa Mary Ahern), freudentränen (Bodek Janke), next to you (Melissa Mary Ahern), someday soon (Melissa Mary Ahern), mama you've been on my mind (Bob Dylan)

3rd Zbigniew Seifert International Jazz Violin Competition

by Ian Patterson
August 9, 2018

3rd Zbigniew Seifert International Jazz Violin Competition Krzysztof Penderecki European Centre for Music Luslawice/Kraków Poland July 25-28, 2018 “An international jazz violin competition? Really?" That is usually came as a surprise to the applicants, and eventual participants themselves, that an international jazz violin competition should exist says a lot about the ...