ADAM BAŁDYCH TRIO

Adam Bałdych – violin
Szymon Mika – guitar
Krzysztof Dys – piano

tickets: 80zł

ADAM BAŁDYCH

fot. Margo Tiałka

 

Adam Bałdych – violinist and composer.
Born in Gorzów Wlkp, (Poland), 18.05.1986.

“Baldych reaches the highs and lows of the emotional spectrum with stunningly vivid imagery, creating a kind of poetry that is narrated by musical notes.” – Robert Sutton / Jazz Corner

“He has, without doubt, the greatest technique of any jazz violinist alive today. We can expect everything of him” – Ulrich Olshausen – Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

“On Imaginary Room….. Adam Baldych expresses his whole virtuosity” – Jazzthetik (DE)

“Baldych gives his violin a voice and emotional power that have been too rarely heard in recent decades and offers a fresh take on the instrument for the contemporary scene – Allaboutjazz.com (USA)

“With Imaginary Room Adam Baldych is making jazz history. – Rondo (DE)

“A player the jazz world should watch” – Stuart Nicholson, Jazzwise (GB)

At the age of 16, Adam started performing internationally (Germany, Poland, Serbia, Hungary, Indonesia, Spain, France, USA). First called “a child prodigy” evolved to being named one of the most interesting jazz violinists in Europe.

Bałdych: “has, without doubt, the greatest technique of any jazz violinist alive today”, but except his virtuosity, he is also appreciated for his original sound and compositions. Adam Bałdych consciously refers in his music to Polish tradition and blurs the differences between classical and jazz music.

Adam Bałdych recorded his first album for the prestigious label ACT MUSIC in 2012. Album “Imaginary Room” was produced by Siggi Loch and Nils Landgren and recorded with the leading European jazz Artists (Lars Danielsson, Jacob Karlzon, Verneri Pohjola, Morten Lund and Marius Neset). His european debut opened the continent’s most important jazz stages, Adam was invited to perform at the biggest jazz festivals in Europe, including the Montreux Jazz Festival and the London Jazz Festival. His second album for ACT “The New Tradition” was recorded together with Israeli pianist Yaron Herman and released on 30th of May 2014.

Adam is the winner of ECHO Jazz 2013 – the most important German music award bestowed on artists by the German music industry; Gazeta Wyborcza, Radio Zachód and TVP poll – “Ale Sztuka”, Grand Prix Jazz Melomani 2011 in the Jazz Hope category and Grand Prix Jazz Melomani 2012 as Artist of the Year. Adam is the award-winner of Cultural Lubuskie Marshal for the promotion of the region in Poland and abroad and also almost every major jazz competitions in Poland. Adam was also nominated for the FRYDERYK Prize in 2013 as an Artist of The Year in Jazz.
Among the musicians Adam Bałdych has worked with, there are not only extremely appreciated jazz musicians: Jim Beard, Lars Danielsson, Nils Landgren, Yaron Herman, Billy Cobham, Iiro Rantala, Urszula Dudziak, Grazyna Auguscik & Paulinho Garcia, NDR Big Band, but also artists famous in pop music (Mika Urbaniak, LUC) and classical music (Paweł Hendrich, Cezary Duchnowski, Royal Strings Quartet).

A very important moment in Adam Bałdych career, was the time he spent in New York, where he was working with young jazz scene, played in legendary jazz clubs and got amazing reviews from American magazines. New York was the place where being among many cultures and their sounds, he “found himself – as he described it. In his music, deriving from many elements, the Slavic melancholy and space, the strength and temperature of the Polish origins is his litemotive.

Often compared with the greatests: Michał Urbaniak, Zbigniew Seifert and Henryk Wieniawski.

Expelled from music school for inappropriate behavior and jazz aspirations, few years later dam got scholarship at Berklee College of Music and graduated with honors jazz department at Music Academy in Katowice (Poland).

In 2007 he did a project with Grammy-award winner – Jim Beard, presenting Adams’ music combined with Jim’s great compositions. Year after, he makes music with Leszek Możdżer and Lars Danielsson for movie “Arne Treasure”. In 2009 he is recording album called “Tribute to Seifert” with most influential violinists nowadays such as: Didier Lockwood, Pierre Blanchard, Jerry Goodman, Krzesimir Dębski, Christian Howes and guitarist – leader of the project Jarosław Śmietana.

Among concerts and career soloist Adam works as a composer of music for theater and collaborates with many theaters and directors (Raphael Matusz, Ellen Lande, Robert Czechowski, Przemysław Wisniewski, John Tomaszewicz).

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http://www.adambaldych.com/

KRZYSZTOF DYS

Krzysztof Dys graduated form the Faculty of Jazz at Ignacy Jan Paderewski Music of Academy in Poznań, Poland, mojoring in piano under Professor Anna Organiszczak. Since 2007 he has been an assistant lecturer at this academy.

So far he has collaborated with the great Polish vibrafonist Jerzy Milian, with famous saxophonist Mikołaj Trzaska, and as well with clarinetist Wacław Zimpel, a great and recognised musician across not only Europe, but also America.

Since 2002 Krzysztof Dys has been a member of Soundcheck, with Maciej “Kocin” Kociński: leader, saxophone, Anrdzej Święs: bass, and Krzysztof Szmańda: drums. The group has released six albums so far.

Than, Dys has worked on regular basis with young, Poznań-based trumpeter, Maciej Fortuna. Their album Tropy has been well-received by the audience and critics as well. Dys also plays in Maciej Fortuna Quartet, with Jakub Mielcarek:  double bass and Przemysław Jarosz: drums. In 2013 the group toured outside Poland with a project “Jazz from Poland”, with a goal to present the work of unappreciated or forgotten or Polish jazz composers, beginning in 1950s and continuing to the most recent ones. In 2011 Quartet’s album Lost Keys was nominated to Fryderyki Award in the category of jazz debut of the year.

The main inspiration for Krzysztof Dys is the work of Russian composers Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin, Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev, American artists like Bill Evans and Miles Davis, and last but not least, a great Polish composer, Grażyna Bacewicz.

SZYMON MIKA

Szymon Mika (born 1991) – one of the most talented guitarists of young generation, prizewinner of International Jarek Śmietana Jazz Guitar Competition, Grand Prix Jazz Nad Odrą and many more.

Recognized for great technique and sound he also delights audience with uncommon maturity. Great personalities such as Peter Bernstein, Mike Stern and John Abercrombie have expressed their admiration for his talent.

Szymon has played on numerous national and international festivals (for example Montreux Jazz Festival, Summer Jazz Festival in Krakow) and participated in many jazz workshops. Hetook lessons from Peter Bernstein, Nelson Veras, Ed Cherry, David Doruzka

On daily basis he shares the stage with top Polish jazz musicians, being a part of originalmusic projects such asJoachim Mencel Artisena, Piotr Budniak Essential Group, Adam Kawończyk Quartet.

He’s also a composer, two CD with some of his original music has been released up to now – “Organ Spot” by Organ Spot and “Popyt” by Mateusz Pałka/Szymon Mika Quartet.

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