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Artur Dutkiewicz

Artur Dutkiewicz Polish jazz pianist and composer. Born in Pinczów, Poland in 1958. He graduated from The Academy of Music in Katowice, Poland and received diploma with distinction. Dutkiewicz was a finalist of the Thelonious Monk Competition in Washington, USA. He was the first Polish musician who played a solo recital at MIDEM in Cannes. He is one of the most concerting abroad Polish jazz musicians. During his career he performed in more than 60 countries around the world from the United States via Europe, Africa, China to Australia and New Zealand. He is a leader of the ARTUR DUTKIEWICZ TRIO playing modern jazz

Michał Przerwa-Tetmajer

Born: February 17, 1985

Marek Napiorkowski

Born: October 27, 1969

Marek Napiórkowski is a leading Polish jazz guitarist and composer. For many years he has proven himself as an all-around artist with unique musical language of his own. Difficult to put labels on: with each musical journey, he takes us into even more intriguing worlds, bound together with his signature sound. Ever since the beginning of his career, his name has been featured in the top musician rankings. Since 2012, the readers of Jazz Forum magazine have consistently selected him as the Jazz Guitarist of the Year. Napiórkowski has been acclaimed by both the industry and critics becoming a six time nominee of the prestigious Music Award FRYDERYK in Jazz Musician of the Year and Jazz Album of the Year categories

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.

Maciej Trifonidis

Born: February 24, 1974

Maciej Trifonidis ( born february 24. 1974 in Warsaw). Composer, musician, publisher, producer and sound engineer. Through his music he travels across a world of sounds all the time retaining his own unique style and musical language. He writes for big orchestral ensembles, jazz combos, trios, duets and more. The music he creates is always energetic, full of formal experimentation and exciting compositional elements. Apart from the sophisticated jazz themes we can experience courageous sonic experiments, wild free improvisations and symphonic moods reminiscent of movie soundtracks with elements of jazz, contemporary composition, ethno and world music

Radek Nowicki Quartet

Born: April 30, 1976

Radek Nowicki is tenor and soprano saxophonists. He graduated with honours from the Fryderyk Chopin State School of Music in Warsaw and the Jazz Institute of the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice. He is a member of Zbigniew Namyslowski’s Big Band. He received First Prize at the Jazz Standards Festival in Siedlce in 2000 with the Szymon Makohin Quintet. In 2004 he won Third Prize in the Jazz Struggle International Competition in Szczecin from jury leaded by Billy Harper, where he also received an honorary mention for most interesting debut. With the trio Kaczmarczyk/Dobrowolski/Traczyk he was awarded First Prize in the Kultursalon Horbigger in Vienna

Babooshki

Born: April 19, 1984

Babooshki formed as a band organically in 2009. The thing that brought these young and talented musicians together is a passion to find common ground between the neighbouring countries of Poland and the Ukraine on a cultural as well as musical level. Their common history and traditions are stored in original, and full of charm, melodies. These melodies include Christmas carols and pastorals, some of them almost completely forgotten, living only in the memories of the inhabitants of small villages in the Eastern Borderlands (Kresy). The band have endeavoured to introduce the music derived from their common Slavic roots

Tomasz Stańko

Born: July 11, 1942

Tomasz Stanko was 20 and a graduate of the Cracow Music Academy when he formed his first band, the Jazz Darings, with pianist Adam Makowicz in 1962. Inspired by early Ornette Coleman and the innovations of Coltrane, Miles Davis and George Russell, the group is often cited by music historians as the first European group to play free jazz, but for the trumpeter its importance was eclipsed by the invitation to join Krzystof Komeda's quintet the following year. Stanko has acknowledged that much of his subsequent musical direction and his own compositional style was influenced by Komeda. The lyricism, the feeling of playing only the essential, the approach to structure, to asymmetry, many harmonic details. Stanko toured for five years with Komeda, appeared on 11 albums with him, and also made contributions to all of the films scores that Komeda realized in Poland.

Jerzy Boklazec

Mikołaj Poncyljusz

Guitarist, composer and producer – the leader of the Warsaw based „HoTS” band. A graduate of the State Music School of the second degree of F. Chopin in Warsaw at the Faculty of Jazz and a graduate of the Academy of Music Karol Szymanowski in Katowice in the department of jazz and stage music. Currently associated with the HoTS, Light Star Guiding, Warsaw Improvisators Orchestra and Opera Na Zamku in Szczecin.