Results for "Mateusz Smoczyński"

Speaking Sound

By Mateusz Smoczyński

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

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 ...

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.

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. ...

Zach Brock: La Nuova Stagione Del Violino Jazz

by Angelo Leonardi
May 29, 2018

Diventato popolare per la collaborazione con Snarky Puppy, Zach Brock è tra i massimi violinisti emersi nel nuovo millennio e contribuisce a riportare lo strumento al centro della scena jazzistica. Influenzato in gioventù dai violinisti europei degli anni settanta --Jean-Luc Ponty, Zbigniew Seifert e Didier Lockwood --ha ampliato la sua prospettiva dal rock al jazz storico, ...

Berek

By Mateusz Smoczyński

Label: Universal Music Polska
Released: 2017
Track listing: Przebiórka #1; Berek #2; Mleko i miód #3; Otwarte E #4; Pożegnanie z Teksasem #5; Odcinki (Solo Piano) #6; Gdybyś tylko chciał #7; Gruby kot #8; Jakoś leci #9; Jazda #10; Ballada dla Mateusz #11; Empiria #12; Odcinki #13

Metamorphoses

By Mateusz Smoczyński

Label: Zbigniew Seifert Foundation
Released: 2017
Track listing: Dorothy’s Dream #1; Violin Sonata No. 1 "Metamorphoses": I. Prayer #2; II. Lament #3; III. Mantra #4; IV. Confession #5; Julie-O #6; Manhattan Island #7; The Old Tune #8; Up-Down #9; The Farmer #10; Zakopane #11; Dragonfly #12; Midnight Psalm #13

Atom String Quartet: Seifert

by Ian Patterson
August 10, 2017

Jazz string quartets are rare. Jazz string quartets as brilliant as Atom String Quartet, the Polish ensemble founded in 2010, are rarer still. This, the quartet's fourth release, sees Dawid Lubowicz, Mateusz Smoczyński (both violin), Michal Zaborski (viola) and Krzysztof Lenczowski (cello) embrace the music of Zbigniew Seifert, the great Polish violinist--and initially saxophonist--of Tomasz Stanko's ...