Aleksandra Kryńska/Kamila Drabek/Paal Nilssen — Love

Concert as part of Krakow Jazz Autumn Preview

Aleksandra Kryńska — violin

Kamila Drabek — double bass

Paal Nilssen-Love — drummer

Concert of three expressive musical personalities from Poland and Norway, moving at the junction of jazz, improvised and contemporary music. Violinist Aleksandra Kryńska, double bassist Kamila Drabek and Norwegian drummer Paal Nilssen-Love will meet on one stage to create space for spontaneous dialogue and musical exchange.

Paal Nilssen-Love is a Norwegian drummer and composer, one of the most important figures in the European free jazz and improvised music scene. He has collaborated with Mats Gustafsson, Ken Vandermark, Peter Brötzmann and John Butcher, among others. He is the leader of the acclaimed big band Large Unit. For more than three decades, he has developed an international artistic activity, combining the energy of free jazz with uncompromising improvisation.

Kamila Drabek is a double bass player, composer and painter, a graduate of the Academy of Music in Krakow. She leads her own trio and co-creates O.N.E., the first female instrumental jazz quintet in Poland. She has worked with Greg Osby and the Vistel Brothers, among others. Her debut album Muzyka Naiwna received a nomination for the 2020 Fryderyk Award in the Jazz Debut of the Year category.

Aleksandra Kryńska — classical and jazz violinist and composer, graduate of the Academy of Music in Krakow and the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw. She has collaborated with Sinfonietta Cracovia and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, among others. She also participated in the international project “50 for the Future” realized by the Kronos Quartet. Since 2023 he has been creating a duet with Piotr Damasiewicz.

The meeting of Kryńska, Drabek and Nilssen-Love is a confrontation of three different experiences and ways of thinking about music. Their joint improvisation will be a space where sound, rhythm and silence can constantly change their meaning, and understanding is built in real time, beyond the boundaries of genres and musical traditions.

Ticket 40/50 PLN