RAFAŁ SARNECKI QUINTET

Rafał Sarnecki – guitar
Łukasz Poprawski – alt sax
Piotr Wyleżoł – piano
Wojciech Pulcyn – double bass
Patryk Dobosz – drums

*tickets: 45/50 pln

fot. Filip Błażejowski

Rafał Sarnecki – guitarist, composer, arranger born in 1982 in Warsaw, Poland. In 2005 he left his hometown to study jazz in New York where he spend most of his career. Living in NY he was involved in a variety of New York based groups such as: Lucas Pino No-Net Nonet, Annie Chen Group and David Bertrand Quartet. He also started his own sextet featuring Lucas Pino, Bogna Kicińska, Glenn Zaleski, Rick Rosato and Colin Stranahan. As a leader of his own projects he has toured China, South Korea, Malaysia, Chile, Israel, the East and West Coast of the US and many European countries.

Rafal has recorded five CDs as a leader. Two of them: Song From a New Place (2008, ARMS Records) and Cat’s Dream (2014, BJURecords) were nominated for the Fryderyk award, the Polish equivalent of a Grammy. The Madman Rambles Again (2011, Fresh Sound) was selected as among the best jazz albums of 2011 by Hi – Fi magazine and All About Jazz. Rafal’s fifth album will be out in the Fall 2022.

Living in NYC Rafal received his BFA degree from the Jazz & Contemporary Music Program at the New School and his MA in music performance from the graduate jazz program at the CUNY Queens College. In 2015 he received a Ph.D. in composition from the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw. Currently Rafal is living in Warsaw. He is an adjunct profesor at the University of Music in Łódź.

http://rafalsarnecki.com/