DOROTA MIŚKIEWICZ & MAREK NAPIÓRKOWSKI - XII Strzeleckie Jazz Gardens

Jazz

DOROTA MIŚKIEWICZ & MAREK NAPIÓRKOWSKI on November 21 (Saturday) at 6 pm in Strzelce Opolskie!

We invite you to the 12th Strzeleckie Jazz Gardens — because jazz flourishes here!

The concert is a fusion of personalities of multiple winners of the Jazz Forum magazine's “Jazz Top” plebiscite in the categories Vocalist and Guitarist of the Year. It shows how much can be done on stage and in sounds using two basic instruments: guitars and voice. The concert program includes the most famous works from Dorota Miśkiewicz's solo albums and pearls of Polish song (Młynarski, Osiecka, Czubaszek) and jazz standards in new interpretations.

DOROTA MISKIEWICZ

One of the most important Polish jazz voices, composer, songwriter. She has released nine original albums, which were often nominated for Fryderyk, and in recent years she herself has won the title of Vocalist of the Year in the annual ranking of the magazine “Jazz Forum”. On September 8, 2023, her latest album “Bons Amigos” was released, recorded in Rio de Janeiro with Latin jazz icon, Brazilian guitarist Toninho Horta. He was nominated for Fryderyk 2024 in the Jazz Album of the Year category, and Dorota herself was nominated in the Artist of the Year category.

Dorota Miśkiewicz is also a visionary who creates funny, artistic ideas. It was on her initiative that the unprecedented project PIANO.PL was created, during which for the first time in the history of Polish music on one stage, in chamber duets accompanied by the Atom String Quartet, a dozen outstanding Polish pianists of three generations presented themselves with her. She received a nomination for the Fryderyk Award and the prestigious Corypheus of Polish Music Award.

There are countless collaborations in which she participated at the invitation of other artists. As one of the few she sang and recorded in a duet with Cesaria Evora, their joint song “UmpinCelada” met with a great reception from music lovers all over the world. In addition, he has collaborated with Nigel Kennedy, Stefano Bollani, David Murray, Louis Winsberg, Kepa Junker, Toninho Horta, Tomasz Stańko and a whole host of artists of the Polish music scene.

Anchored in jazz, it readily flows into the wide waters of other musical aesthetics, often expertly experienced. For years she can be heard on Grzegorz Turnau's albums and concerts, and artists from the hip-hop scene (including LUC), contemporary and avant-garde (Paweł Szamburski, Kwadrofonik, Agata Zubel) are also invited to joint projects.

MAREK NAPIÓRKOWSKI

Marek Napiórkowski is a leading Polish jazz guitarist and composer. For many years he has realized himself as a versatile artist, building his own unique musical language, which is difficult to categorize - with each new venture he takes us to more and more interesting musical worlds, sealing them with a brand of unique sound. Since the beginning of his career, he has appeared at the top of Polish rankings, including as Jazz Guitarist of the Year in the annual survey of Jazz Forum magazine. Appreciated by the industry and music critics — nominated sixteen times, and in 2019 honored with the statuette of the FRYDERYK Music Prize. Winner of the Mateusze Trójki 2018 award for the album “WAW-NYC”, awarded by ProgramiII of Polish Radio. For the album “String Theory”, recorded with the AUKSO orchestra, he received the O! dreaming of Onet in 2023. He also performs as a composer of theatrical and film music. For the soundtrack to Andrzej Saramonowicz's film “Bejbis”, he received a nomination for the Polish Film Award “Eagles” 2023 and the Audience Award in the Krakow Film Music Festival competition in the Polish Soundtrack of the Year category. He was also nominated in the Personality of the Year category for the Koryfeusz Polish Music Award 2023. Distinguished for the music for the film “Love and empty words” directed by Małgorzata Imielska during the 48th Lubuskie Film Summer — Łagów 2019. He is also a composer of theatrical music.

He has recorded more than 150 albums with various artists, including more than a dozen original ones. His solo albums include Chris Potter, Clarence Penn, Grégoire Maret, Mino Cinelu, Manuel Valera, Anna Maria Jopek, Leszek Możdżer and Adam Pierończyk. Among the musicians with whom he played and recorded, it is worth mentioning such characters as: Tomasz Stańko, Adam Holzman, Marcus Miller, Hadrien Feraud, Sugar Blue, Henryk Miśkiewicz, Janusz Muniak, Tomasz Szukalski, Jan Ptaszyn Wróblewski, as well as Pat Metheny, Richard Bona, Ivan Lins, Dhafer Youssef, Gonzalo Rubalcaba. He has toured Japan, USA, Mexico, Brazil, Canada, Indonesia, China, Russia and most European countries.

In the years 2017-2019, he hosted the author's show “Unobvious Sounds” on Chilli Zet radio, and is currently the host of the broadcast “Napiór w etere” on Radio Nowy Świat. He also holds the title of professor of musical arts and teaches at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music.

Tickets PLN 60 can be purchased at the SOK Box Office and online at www.bilety.sok-kultura.eu

The event was covered by the Honorary Patronage of the Marshal of the Opole Voivodeship - Szymon Oglazy, the Honorary Patronage of the Mayor of Strzelec Opolskie - Jan Wróblewski.

Media patrons: TVP 3 Opole, TVP Info, Radio Park, Radio DOXA, regional weekly “Strzelec Opolski”.

Event implemented with the support of the “Active in the Region” Foundation