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Motion Trio
Motion Trio is a Polish accordion trio founded in 1996 by Janusz Wojtarowicz. The band has performed on six continents and in forty two countries: Austria, Belgium, Belarus, Brazil, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, China, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Great Britain, Greece, Spain, Holland, Ireland, Iceland, Israel, Japan, Canada, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Latvia, Germany, Kazachstan, Moldova, New Caledonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Singapore, Slovakia, South Korea, Switzerland, Sweden, Taiwan, Turkey, Ukraine, USA, Hungary and Italy. Discography *1998: "Cry" *1999: "Pictures" *2001: "Pictures From The Street" - Best Polish Recording 2000, Grand Prix at the Polish Music Industry, Best Debut year 2000 in Poland - Jazzi Magazine, Deutsche Shallplatten Kritik and "Gus Viseur","Musical Discovery of the Year" in France, 2005. *2002: "Play-Station" *2003: "Pictures From The Street" Reedition *2004: "Live in Vienna Sacrum & Profanum" *2007: "Metropolis" *2009: "Michael Nyman & Motion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Accordion
Accordions (from 19th-century German ''Akkordeon'', from ''Akkord''—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed in a frame), colloquially referred to as a squeezebox. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist. The concertina , harmoneon and bandoneón are related. The harmonium and American reed organ are in the same family, but are typically larger than an accordion and sit on a surface or the floor. The accordion is played by compressing or expanding the bellows while pressing buttons or keys, causing ''pallets'' to open, which allow air to flow across strips of brass or steel, called '' reeds''. These vibrate to produce sound inside the body. Valves on opposing reeds of each note are used to make the instrument's reeds sound louder without air leaking from each reed block.For the accordion's place among the families of musical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zohar Fresco
Zohar Fresco (born 1969) is an Israeli percussionist and composer, specializing on the frame drum. He is known to have created his personal musical technique that combines various styles of playing the frame drum. He is a member of the jazz trio ''MOŻDŻER DANIELSSON FRESCO'', together with Polish pianist Leszek Możdżer and Swedish double bass player Lars Danielsson. Previously, he was a member of the Israeli world music band Bustan Abraham, which existed between 1991 and 2003. During his career, he has played with musicians such as the jazz drummer Hamid Drake, violin player Taiseer Elias, saxophonist Daniel Zamir and oud player Ara Dinkjian. He has also toured with American composer Philip Glass and others. Selected discography * ''Bustan Abraham'' with Bustan Abraham (1992) * ''Pictures Through The Painted Window'' with Bustan Abraham (1994) * ''Abadai'' with Bustan Abraham feat. Ross Daly (1996) * ''Fanar'' with Bustan Abraham feat. Zakir Hussain and Hariprasad Cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kroke
Kroke is a Polish instrumental ensemble of world music. The band's name refers to the Yiddish language name for Kraków (, ). The band was founded in 1992 by three friends and graduates of the Academy of Music in Kraków. Initially, they were associated with klezmer music with strong Balkan influences. Currently, their work draws inspiration from a variety of ethnic music and sounds of the Orient (especially on the album Seventh Trip), combining these with jazz to create their own distinctive style. In addition to their own projects, Kroke have recorded albums with artists such as Nigel Kennedy, Edyta Geppert, and Urna. One of their songs, "The Secret of the Life Tree", features on the soundtrack of David Lynch's 2006 film '' Inland Empire''. History The first official release from KROKE was the 1993 cassette “Klezmer Acoustic Music”. During a promotional concert for the album, the band met Steven Spielberg, who invited them to perform at the “Survivors Reunion” co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zbigniew Wodecki
Zbigniew Stanisław Wodecki (; 6 May 1950 – 22 May 2017) was a Polish singer, musician, composer, actor and TV presenter. Early life and career He was born on 6 May 1950 in Godów, Poland. He started to play the violin at the age of five. Since the late 1960s, he had collaborated with the Piwnica pod Baranami literary cabaret and singer Ewa Demarczyk. As a singer, he debuted in 1972 at the National Festival of Polish Song in Opole. He is mostly known for the songs ''Chałupy Welcome To'', ''Lubię wracać tam, gdzie byłem'', ''Z Tobą chcę oglądać świat'' (duet with Zdzisława Sośnicka) and ''Zacznij od Bacha'', as well as the Polish versions of several soundtracks – ''Maya the Honey Bee'' and '' Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie''. In the 1980s he performed in a cabaret with . He appeared as one of the judges on the Polish version of the ''Dancing with the Stars'' television show, ''Taniec z gwiazdami'', during its first twelve seasons. Considered one of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Maria Jopek
Anna Maria Jopek (born 14 December 1970) is a Polish vocalist, songwriter, and improviser. She represented Poland in the 1997 Eurovision Song Contest, with the song "Ale jestem" and finished 11th out of 25 participating acts; and in 2002, she collaborated on an album with jazz guitarist Pat Metheny. She has received numerous awards for her music, including Michel Legrand's Personal Award in Vitebsk in 1994, as well as all of the awards for music in Poland, together with gold and platinum records. Biography She is the daughter of Mazowsze singer Stanisław Jopek (1935–2006), known as the "First Coachman of Poland" for his signature song "Furman" (The Coachman), and former Mazowsze dancer Maria Stankiewicz. Her 1999 Christmas album, ''Dzisiaj z Betleyem,'' features two duets with her father. Anna Maria's sister, Patrycja is a violinist. In Poland she has sung with Marek Grechuta, Jeremi Przybora and Wojciech Młynarski. Abroad she has performed with Pat Metheny, Youssu'n Dour, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Józef Skrzek
Józef Franciszek Skrzek (born 2 July 1948, Siemianowice, Silesia, Poland) is a Polish multi-instrumentalist, singer, and composer, an important figure in Polish rock. Life In his early career, Skrzek was associated with the groups Ślężanie, Ametysty and Breakout. In 1971, he created the progressive-rock group Silesian Blues Band (with Jerzy Piotrowski and Apostolis Anthimos) and also recorded for a time with Czesław Niemen. He performed with a number of artist and ''ad hoc'' created bands, but mostly involved himself with theater and church music, as well as movie soundtracks. He is well-noted for his live performances not only on conventional concerts but also in a variety of other venues (e.g., his improvisations on summer solstice nights in Silesian Planetarium). Currently, he is a friend of the elementary school in his hometown (elementary school number 13 in Michalkowice) where he often plays or sings. In 2012 together with Jarosław Pijarowski and his ( :pl:Teatr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Łukasz Targosz
Łukasz Targosz (; born 20 February 1977 in Kraków) is a Polish film composer, and music and film producer. A graduate from The Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice (Jazz and Pop Music Department) in 2002. He started his career as a session musician. After writing music for a movie entitled ''The Crown Witness'', he gained recognition. He received two awards for his film music: in 2010 during Roma Fiction Fest for the best music written for a TV series ''Marked'' and during Los Angeles Cinema Festival of Hollywood (Winter 2015) for music composed for ''The Last Waltz''. Radiostation RMF Classic as well as its listeners awarded Łukasz Targosz with MocArty for The Best Film Music of 2014 written to a TV series ''The Pack'' produced by HBO Poland. He can boast of over 40 soundtracks for various cinematic projects – to begin with art house, through mainstream movies and animation, to end with new generation historic movies such as ''Stones for the Rampart'' by Rober ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maciej Zieliński
Maciej Zielinski (born March 29, 1971) is the award-winning Polish composer, arranger and music producer, known for his contemporary classical and film scores, songs and original television music. His contemporary classical music has been awarded at 8 composers’ contests, including two international competitions and it was performed at many international festivals, including the Warsaw Autumn Festival and ISCM World Music Days. He has written scores for popular Polish movies and for independent US productions. In 2019 he received "Best Score" award at the "New Filmmakers LA Awards" in Los Angeles and nomination for "Crystal Pine Award" at the International Sound and Film Music Festival in Croatia. In 2016, 2017, and 2020 he received nominations for the Polish Film Academy Award - "Eagle" (Polish: Polskie Nagrody Filmowe: Orły) in "Best Music" category. In 2012 he was nominated for "Fryderyk" – the Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry (Związek Producentów Audio-Vid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcel Chyrzyński
Marcel Chyrzyński (born in 1971) is a Polish composer. He has been described as "a polystylist with an enormous sense of humour, and a lover of rhythm and jazz improvisation". Chyrzyński's works have been performed throughout Europe, as well as in South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, the USA and Canada. He completed a master's degree at the Academy of Music in Kraków in 1995, where he studied composition with Marek Stachowski, orchestration with Krzysztof Penderecki, and computer music with Marek Choloniewski, Richard Boulanger, Cindy McTee and Rodney Oaks. Since 1994 he has been a lecturer at the Academy of Music in Kraków, and in 2010 became an associated professor in the Departament of Composition, Conducting and Theory of Music. In 1998 he was awarded a doctorate in composition. Since 2014 he has been a director of the Institute of Composition, Conducting and Music Theory. Chyrzyński has received many awards and prizes, including 1st prize in the A.Krzanowski C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zbigniew Bargielski
Zbigniew Bargielski (born 21 January 1937, in Łomża), is a Polish composer and teacher. His works have been performed in many European countries, the United States, Australia and South America. On 24 February 2011 he was awarded by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage Bogdan Zdrojewski with the Medal for Merit to Culture. Life and career Zbigniew Bargielski studied law at the Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin. In 1958 he began studying composition at the State Academy of Music in Warsaw under the guidance of eminent professor Tadeusz Szeligowski, and after his death, he continued with Boleslaw Szabelski in the State Music Academy in Katowice. In the years 1966-1967 he complemented his studies with Nadia Boulanger in Paris, and in 1972 at the Hochschule für Musik in Graz. In 1976 he moved to Austria where he studied at music school in Bruck an der Mur. Since 2002 he teaches composition at the Music Academy in Bydgoszcz Bydgoszcz ( , , ; german: Bromberg) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marta Ptaszynska
Marta Ptaszyńska (born 29 July 1943) is a Polish composer, percussionist and professor of music at the University of Chicago. She has been described by the Polish Music Center of the University of Southern California as "one of the best known Polish woman composers" as well as "a virtuoso percussionist specializing in performances of contemporary music". (archive from 5 June 2016), accessed 27 September 2018. Career Ptaszyńska was born in , Poland. In 1998, she was appointed a Professor of Music and the Humanities at the University of Chicago. Since 2005 she holds a ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
