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Atom String Quartet

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 ...

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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 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

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.

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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 ...

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. ...

Ian Patterson's Best Releases of 2017

by Ian Patterson
January 2, 2018

I'm always conscious of the fact that no matter how much new music you listen to in a given year it represents but a handful of stars in a teeming galaxy. These are a few of the brightest stars to have illuminated my 2017. The Firebirds Aladdin's Dream ILK Music