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Mateusz Smoczyński
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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.
Adam's Apple
Label: Warner Music Group
Released: 2024
Track listing: Adam's Apple Concerto For Violin and Orchestra: i. Genesis; ii. Eden; iii. Temptation; iv. Cadenza; v.
Apocalypse; Jazz Concerto For Violin, Rhythm Section And Symphony Orchestra: i. Rubato--Tempo--Ad
Libitum--Fast Tempo; ii. Rubato--Tempo; iii. Solos--Ad Libitum; iv. Rubato.
Mateusz Smoczyński: Adam's Apple
by Ian Patterson
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 ...
Yazz Ahmed with Emel and Rabih Abou-Khalil at Barbican Hall
by Chris May
Yazz Ahmed With Emel And Rabih Abou-Khalil Barbican Hall 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
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
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'
By Stefan Braun
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
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
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 ...
