{"id":11611,"date":"2024-04-30T15:03:06","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T13:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/?p=11611"},"modified":"2024-08-21T16:09:26","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T14:09:26","slug":"jazztopad-festival-new-york-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/2024\/04\/30\/jazztopad-festival-new-york-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Jazztopad Festival New York 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cIlluminating intersections between jazz, contemporary classical, electronic and other music without borders, Poland\u2019s Jazztopad Festival returns to New York for the seventh time with sets from genre-expanding artists…\u201d<\/em> \u2013 Alan Scherstuhl, The New York Times<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201c…Jazztopad stands as an internationally renowned festival with a clearly defined ethos, one that combines a strong respect for the traditions and roots of the music with a progressive vision that provides a platform for the contemporary and innovative.\u201d\u202f<\/em>\u2013 Ian Patterson, AllAboutJazz.com<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 \u201cJazztopad Festival meets the high standards set by its predecessors and invites healthy debate on key issues in arts programming.\u201d<\/em> \u2013 Kevin Le Gendre, Jazzwise<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 \u201cA model for what a jazz festival can be, Jazztopad is fertile soil for commissioned works and adventure-minded programming.\u201d<\/em> \u2013 Joe Woodard, Down Beat<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThe Jazztopad Festival, a leading event of its kind in Poland\u2026\u201d <\/em>\u2013 Nate Chinen, The New York Times<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jazztopad Festival, June 13-16, 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Concerts will take place in Manhattan at Lincoln Center Out of Doors, Rizzoli Bookstore, Dizzy\u2019s Club at Jazz at Lincoln Center; and in Brooklyn at Public Records and Barb\u00e8s<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lineup includes Kris Davis performing the World Premiere of \u2018The Solastalgia Suite\u2019, with Lutos\u0142awski Quartet, Amalia Umeda, Hand To Earth (Daniel and David Wilfred, Peter Knight, Sunny Kim, Aviva Endean), Michael Bates Acrobat, Lesley Mok, Stephan Crump, Hamid Drake, Marta Sanchez<\/strong> & more<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The paradigm-shifting Polish festival Jazztopad makes its annual return to New York City this summer, with a series of genre-blurring events in venues around the city between June 13-16, 2024. The program includes the world premiere of a new Kris Davis work featuring her own piano playing and the acclaimed Polish string ensemble Lutos\u0142awski Quartet, as well as intimate improv sessions built around the young Polish violinist Amalia Umeda, all reflecting a holistic embrace of creative music unencumbered by arbitrary genre boundaries. The program will also feature the North American premiere of \u201cThe Crow\u201d by the Australian ensemble Hand to Earth along with performances by bassist Michael Bates, working with his group Acrobat and Lutos\u0142awski Quartet, complementing his incisive arrangements of music by the composer Witold Lutos\u0142awski with brand new adaptations of music by Karol Szymanowski.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kris Davis and the Lutoslawski Quartet will premier The Solastalgia Suite<\/em>. Drawing inspiration from Messiaen’s hauntingly beautiful \u201cQuartet for the End of Time,\u201d which was composed amidst the turmoil of World War II, The Solastalgia Suite <\/em>channels a similar sense of existential fear and introspection. Davis skillfully blends influences from Messiaen, Beyonc\u00e9, and Cecil Taylor, weaving a rich tapestry of sounds that seamlessly integrates written compositions with improvisational elements. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As part of Jazztopad\u2019s commitment to erasing borders this year\u2019s program includes Hand to Earth, a group from Australia led by trumpeter Peter Knight and featuring two aboriginal members\u2014brothers David and Daniel Wilfred, keepers of one of the oldest known vocal traditions. There have been several iterations of Hand to Earth but the version that comes to New York, \u201cThe Crow\u201d co-commissioned by the Melbourne International Jazz Festival, is special thanks to the participation of Polish improvising violinist and composer Amalia Umeda. The ensemble, which also includes the acclaimed saxophonist Aviva Endean, uses expansive improvisation to meld ambient sounds and traditional \u2018Manikay\u2019 (public songs) sung in Wagil\u00e4k.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Thursday June 13, 2024 at 7:00 PM<\/a> and 9:00 PM<\/a><\/strong>
Dizzy\u2019s Club, Jazz at Lincoln Center<\/a> <\/strong>
10 Columbus Circle, New York, NY 10019
Kris Davis & Lutos\u0142awski Quartet – World Premiere of The Solastalgia Suite<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Friday, June 14, 2024 at 7:30 PM<\/strong>
Jersey City Theater Center<\/strong><\/a>
165 Newark Avenue Entrance from, Barrow St, Jersey City, NJ 07302
Voices International Fest\/Hand to Earth<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Friday, June 14, 2024 at 8:00 PM<\/strong>
Barb\u00e8s<\/a><\/strong>
376 9th St, Brooklyn, NY 11215
Amalia Umeda + Lesley Mok + Michael Bates + Marta Sanchez<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Friday, June 14, 2024 at 8:00 PM \u2013 Philadelphia<\/strong>
Solar Myth<\/a><\/strong>
1131 S Broad St, Philadelphia, PA 19147
Kris Davis + Lutos\u0142awski Quartet<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Saturday, June 15, 2024 at 4:30 PM<\/strong>
Hearst Plaza at Lincoln Center Out of Doors<\/a><\/strong>
30 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023
North American Premiere of \u201cThe Crow\u201d by Hand to Earth with Amalia Umeda<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Saturday, June 15, 2024 at 8:00 PM<\/strong>
Barb\u00e8s<\/a><\/strong>
376 9th St, Brooklyn, NY 11215
Michael Bates Acrobat with Lutos\u0142awski Quartet<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sunday, June 16, 2024 at 5:00 PM<\/strong>
Rizzoli Bookstore<\/a><\/strong>
1133 Broadway, New York, NY 10010
Stephan Crump + Amalia Umeda + Hamid Drake<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Sunday, June 16, 2024 at 8:00 PM (doors 7:00 PM)<\/strong>
Public Records<\/a><\/strong>
233 Butler St., Brooklyn, NY 11217
BUNGUL \u2013 Hamid Drake + Amalia Umeda + Peter Knight + Sunny Kim + Aviva Endean +Daniel Wilfred + David Wilfred<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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ARTISTS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Amalia Umeda
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When creating music, what violinist, composer and arranger Amalia Umeda<\/strong> values most is the possibility of manipulating space, reflecting various emotional states, building tensions, and illustrating even the most abstract ideas. Amalia is one of 6 artists selected for the international program Footprints Europe 2021.  In August 2022, as a result of that program, her quartet started the Nowo\u015bwit Footprints tour. The tour included concerts at the Oslo Jazz Festival (Oslo, Norway), Umea Jazz Festival (Umea, Sweden), Cologne Jazzweek\/NICA Exchange (Cologne, Germany), Nasjonal Jazzscene (Oslo, Norway), NOSPR (Katowice, Poland), Periscope (Lyon, France), Bimhuis (Amsterdam, Netherlands), and Jazzahead! European Showcase (Bremen, Germany). Amalia is the winner of the 3rd prize at the Zbigniew Seifert International Jazz Violin Competition 2022, a special prize at the Young Crocus Jazz Contest 2021 (Amalia Umeda Quartet), and the 2nd prize at the Blue Note Pozna\u0144 Competition 2020 (solo category).

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Kris Davis
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Kris Davis<\/strong> is a Grammy\u00ae award-winning pianist and composer described by The New York Times as a beacon for \u201cdeciding where to hear jazz (in New York) on a given night.\u201d Davis has released 24 recordings as a leader or co-leader and collaborated with artists such as Terri Lyne Carrington, Dave Holland, John Zorn, Craig Taborn, Ingrid Laubrock, Tyshawn Sorey, Julian Lage and Esperanza Spalding.  She was named a 2021 Doris Duke Artist alongside Wayne Shorter and Danilo Perez, Pianist of the Year by DownBeat magazine in 2022 and 2020, and Pianist and Composer of the Year by the Jazz Journalists Association in 2021. Davis\u2019 latest release, Diatom Ribbons Live at the Village Vanguard, was voted best album of 2023 by NPR and PopMatters among others.  Davis is the Associate Program Director of Creative Development for the Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice and the founder of Pyroclastic Records and the IMCCW. Davis is a Steinway Artist.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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LUTOS\u0141AWSKI QUARTET
\u00a9 \u0141ukasz Rajchert
Roksana Kwa\u015bnikowska, violin
Marcin Markowicz, violin 
Artur Rozmys\u0142owicz, viola
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The Lutos\u0142awski Quartet<\/strong> performs contemporary music as well as recently commissioned pieces, and focuses on popularizing Polish music, including works by Lutos\u0142awski, Bacewicz, Szymanowski, and also compositions by one of the group members \u2013 Marcin Markowicz. An ensemble made up of versatile and open-minded artists, they blend the contemporary repertoire with the gems of Classical, Romantic and jazz music. They have worked with Charles Lloyd, Vijay Iyer, Kenny Wheeler, John Taylor, Sylvie Courvousier, Mark Feldman, James Brandon Lewis and other jazz greats, and recorded the world\u2019s first album of Witold Lutos\u0142awski\u2019s chamber works for the Accord label.
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Michael Bates\u2019 Acrobat
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Michael Bates\u2019 Acrobat
<\/strong>Since his debut album Outside Sources<\/em> (2004), Canadian bassist-composer Michael Bates<\/strong> felt that even contemporary jazz constrained him, saying that he takes inspiration from Miles Davis equally as from the punk recordings of Bad Brains. It was from punk that he started his adventure with music composition and performance. He pushed new boundaries with Acrobat (a quintet led by Bates) daringly taking up the legacy and composition technique of Shostakovich (titled Music for, and by, Dmitri Shostakovich<\/em>, 2011). From that project, it was a short way to Bates\u2019 discovery of one of Poland\u2019s most significant 20th-century composers, Witold Lutos\u0142awski. Bates\u2019 arrangements of this composer\u2019s works were premiered by Acrobat and Lutos\u0142awski Quartet during the New York edition of Jazztopad festival in June 2022. Several months later in Wroc\u0142aw, the musicians met up again in order to record the music and thus preserve their fantastic adventure for the future generations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hand to Earth
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Hand to Earth<\/strong> – A call to open ears \u2013 eluding genre, traversing continents, fusing the ancient and the contemporary. Hand to Earth developed during an Australia Art Orchestra* residency in the remote highlands of Tasmania. Yolgnu songman, Daniel Wilfred and Korean vocalist, Sunny Kim, formed an effortless rapport that spans continents and cultures and yet expresses a deeply human commonality. Their vocal approaches are melded into the electronic atmospheres created by trumpeter and composer, Peter Knight, who draws on the minimalism of Brian Eno and Jon Hassell to create a bed for these beautifully contrasting voices. Daniel sings in his native language, and is the keeper of Yolgnu manikay (songs) from Northeast Arnhem Land that can be traced back over 40,000 years. His is the oldest continuously practiced musical tradition in the world. Kim sings in English and Korean and intones wordless gestures that invoke raw elemental forces. Together they sing of the stars, of fire, and of the cooling rain, against the sounds of Peter Knight\u2019s trumpet and electronic crackles. Hand to Earth expresses something of the here and now in music, and represents contemporary Australia at its best: sophisticated, inclusive, diverse, and forward looking. Concert highlights have included Pierre Boulez Saal Berlin, WOMADelaide, Darwin Festival, and a tour of Australia\u2019s Northern Territory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Peter Knight \u2013 trumpet, electronics, percussion (Hand to Earth)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perpetually curious, composer\/trumpeter\/sound artist Peter Knight\u2019s practice exists in the spaces between categories, between genres, and between cultures. Peter has emerged as a significant international force in contemporary music, initiating commissions, collaborations, and performances with a diverse range of artists including recently, Anthony Braxton (USA), Nicole Liz\u00e9e (Canada), Amir ElSaffar (USA), Daniel Wilfred (Arnhem Land), Hyelim Kim (UK\/Korea),\u202f Baliphonics (Sri Lanka), and Alvin Lucier (USA).\u202f Peter was artistic director of the Australian Art Orchestra from 2013-23 and led the group to\u202f multiple awards and accolades. In addition to his role with the AAO Peter regularly presents his\u202f music as both performer and composer in a range of settings; he also composes for contemporary theater, film, and creates sound installations. Peter has won numerous awards, nominations, and\u202f fellowships. He holds a doctorate from Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University.\u202f<\/p>\n\n\n\n

David Wilfred \u2013 yidaki, voice, dance<\/strong> (Hand to Earth)<\/strong>
David Yipininy Wilfred<\/strong> is a Ritharr\u014bu man, and the traditional Djunggayi (manager) of the manikay\u202fof the country of Nyilipidgi. He lives in Ngukurr, NT and teaches song and dance to the children at the Ngukurr School. Together with his family members Benjamin Wilfred and Daniel Wilfred, he\u202f has been playing with the Australian Art Orchestra for almost 15 years, sharing their songs and culture with people\u202faround the world. Together with Daniel, he was awarded the NT Luminary Award for \u2018cultural\u202fleadership and sustained creative contributions in Australia and beyond\u2019 during the 2020 Art Music\u202f Awards by APRA AMCOS and the Australian Music Centre.\u202f<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sunny (Yoon Sun) Kim \u2013 voice, electronics, percussion (Hand to Earth)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sunny Kim is a Korea-born vocalist, improviser, composer and educator based in Melbourne,\u202f
Australia. She is a Lecturer at the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music of the University of Melbourne,\u202f
Australia. Prior to her current position, Sunny was Assistant Professor in Applied Music Studies at\u202f the Dongah Institute of Media and Arts (South Korea). After completing her studies in jazz at the New England Conservatory in Boston, Sunny moved to New York in 2005 where she performed\u202f and recorded with many internationally renowned musicians. She\u2019s a two-time winner of Jazz\u202fPeople Magazine\u2019s Reader\u2019s Poll Awards in Best Vocalist category and collaborates with\u202fcontemporary and traditional musicians, dancers, and visual artists to explore expressions\u202fregarding identity, spirituality, gender, and cross-disciplinary art forms. Sunny has released five albums as a leader.\u202f<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aviva Endean \u2013 bass clarinet, harmonic flute, electronics\u202f(Hand to Earth)<\/strong>
Aviva Endean is a clarinetist, composer, improviser, curator, sound artist, performance-maker and\u202fcollaborator. Aviva regularly works across a range of contexts including experimental and\u202f
improvised music, new chamber music, creating theatre works which are designed to be listened\u202fto and working on cross-disciplinary collaborations. Her work seeks engagement beyond the boundaries of her art form, to reimagine the possibilities of a practice with sound.\u202f  Aviva was the inaugural recipient of the Australian Art Orchestra\u2019s \u2018Pathfinder\u2019 Music Leadership\u202fprogram, which offered her a one-year Associate Artist position with the company. Her other\u202fpositions have included \u2018Emerging Artist in Residence\u2019 with both Chamber Made and ASTRA\u202fChamber Music Society, and Associate Artist for the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity (Canada).\u202f Aviva is the recipient of numerous Awards including the Freedman Music Fellowship (2015).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Hamid Drake
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Hamid Drake<\/strong> is an American jazz drummer and percussionist. By the close of the 1990s, Hamid Drake was widely regarded as one of the best percussionists in jazz and improvised music. Incorporating Afro-Cuban, Indian, and African percussion instruments and influence, in addition to using the standard trap set, Drake has collaborated extensively with top free jazz improvisers. Drake also has performed world music; by the late 1970s, he was a member of Foday Musa Suso’s Mandingo Griot Society and has played reggae throughout his career. Drake has worked with trumpeter Don Cherry, pianist Herbie Hancock, saxophonists Pharoah Sanders, Fred Anderson, Archie Shepp and David Murray and bassists Reggie Workman and William Parker (in many lineups). He studied drums extensively, including eastern and Caribbean styles. He frequently plays without sticks, using his hands to develop subtle commanding undertones. His tabla playing is notable for his subtlety and flair. Drake’s questing nature and his interest in Caribbean percussion led to a deep involvement with reggae. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Lesley Mok
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Lesley Mok<\/strong> is a New York City-based percussionist and interdisciplinary artist who works in sound, installation, film, and theater. Interested in the ways social conditions shape our beings, Lesley\u2019s work focuses on overacting humanness to explore ideas about alienness and privilege. Their work draws from queer and feminist art practices, Chinese philosophy, Afro-Cuban musical traditions, futurist perspectives, and ancestral knowledge. As a percussionist, Lesley has performed alongside Tomeka Reid, William Parker, Ingrid Laubrock, Mary Malvorson, Kenny Barron, John Patitucci, Cory Smythe, Jen Shyu, Kalia Vandever, Fay Victor, Adam O\u2019Farrill, and others. They have performed throughout the Americas and Europe, including Roulette Intermedium, SF Jazz, Ringling Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Art, Unerh\u00f6rt Festival, Jazzowa Jesien, Cologne Jazz Festival, moers festival, Panama Jazz Festival, and Dominican Republic Jazz Festival. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Marta S\u00e1nchez
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Born and raised in Madrid, Spain, pianist and composer Marta S\u00e1nchez<\/strong> is actively working in the contemporary creative music scene in New York City and around the globe. Charting a significant path through her innovative and original music, she has reached an international audience, gaining significant global recognition. Marta\u2019s main project, her quintet, was created soon after she moved to New York, and since then has released four albums: \u201cPartenika\u201d (2015), \u201cDanza Imposible\u201d (2017), and \u201cEl Rayo de Luz\u201d (2019) with the Spanish label Fresh Sound and SAAM (Spanish American Art Museum) with Whirlwind Recordings. She has toured the United States, Europe, South America, and Central America, performing as a leader or as a sideman at prestigious venues and prominent festivals such as North Sea Jazz Festival in the Netherlands, Eurojazz in Mexico City, Eurojazz in Athens, Jazz Festival Vitoria Gasteiz, Winter Jazz Festival in New York, and Madrid among many others. In the United States she has performed at some of the most prestigious clubs including the Blue Note, Birdland, Roulette, Jazz Gallery, 55 Bar, The Cell Theater, Cornelia Street Cafe, or Blue Whale.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Stephan Crump, JazzfestBerlin2022
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Memphis-bred, Grammy-nominated, Echo Award-winning bassist\/composer Stephan Crump<\/strong> is an active bandleader with fourteen critically acclaimed album releases in addition to numerous films scoring contributions. Known for transforming his instrument into a speaking entity of magnetic pull, his focus on creative instrumental music has led to collaborations with many leading lights of his generation.\u202f <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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ABOUT THE FESTIVAL<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jazztopad Festival<\/strong>, the leading event of its kind in Poland, has organized satellite editions all over the world (Japan, Turkey, South Korea) in collaboration with such partners as Jarasum International Jazz Festival, Tokyo Jazz Festival, Akbank Jazz Festival, TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival and Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City. For 20 years, the festival has been commissioning music from some of the most important American artists including Wayne Shorter, Charles Lloyd, Jason Moran, William Parker, Vijay Iyer and Terence Blanchard, James Brandon Lewis and Craig Taborn. The international creative partnerships of Jazztopad include such prestigious organizations as the Monterey Jazz Festival, Kennedy Center, London Jazz Festival and Los Angeles Philharmonic. Live recordings from the festival have been released on ECM and Blue Note Records.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since Artistic Director Piotr Turkiewicz and General Director Andrzej Kosendiak took the reins in 2008, the event has become one of Europe\u2019s premier jazz festivals, a dynamic endeavor that showcases the finest homegrown talent and engages some of the most storied figures in the music\u2019s history with ambitious commissions. From the beginning, Turkiewicz has sought to elevate jazz from his homeland, programming local musicians in Wroc\u0142aw, but also organizing performances for them around the world, in collaboration with renowned jazz artists in the US and other countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This project is organized by the National Forum of Music in Wroc\u0142aw in partnership with the Polish Cultural Institute New York.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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intersections between jazz, contemporary classical, electronic and other music without borders, Poland\u2019s Jazztopad Festival returns to New York for the seventh time with sets from genre-expanding artists...\u201d \u2013 Alan Scherstuhl, The New York Times\\n\u201c...Jazztopad stands as an internationally renowned festival with a clearly defined ethos, one that combines a strong respect for the traditions and roots of the music with a progressive vision that provides a platform for the contemporary and innovative.\u201d\u202f\u2013 Ian Patterson, AllAboutJazz.com\\n \u201cJazztopad Festival meets the high standards set by its predecessors and invites healthy debate on key issues in arts programming.\u201d \u2013 Kevin Le Gendre, Jazzwise\\n \u201cA model for what a jazz festival can be, Jazztopad is fertile soil for commissioned works and adventure-minded programming.\u201d \u2013 Joe Woodard, Down Beat\\n\u201cThe Jazztopad Festival, a leading event of its kind in Poland\u2026\u201d \u2013 Nate Chinen, The New York Times\\nJazztopad Festival, June 13-16, 2024\\nConcerts will take place in Manhattan at Lincoln Center Out of Doors, Rizzoli Bookstore, Dizzy\u2019s Club at Jazz at Lincoln Center; and in Brooklyn at Public Records and Barb\u00e8s.\\nLineup includes Kris Davis performing the World Premiere of \u2018The Solastalgia Suite\u2019, with Lutos\u0142awski Quartet, Amalia Umeda, Hand To Earth (Daniel and David Wilfred, Peter Knight, Sunny Kim, Aviva Endean), Michael Bates Acrobat, Lesley Mok, Stephan Crump, Hamid Drake, Marta Sanchez & more.\\nThe paradigm-shifting Polish festival Jazztopad makes its annual return to New York City this summer, with a series of genre-blurring events in venues around the city between June 13-16, 2024. The program includes the world premiere of a new Kris Davis work featuring her own piano playing and the acclaimed Polish string ensemble Lutos\u0142awski Quartet, as well as intimate improv sessions built around the young Polish violinist Amalia Umeda, all reflecting a holistic embrace of creative music unencumbered by arbitrary genre boundaries. The program will also feature the North American premiere of \u201cThe Crow\u201d by the Australian ensemble Hand to Earth along with performances by bassist Michael Bates, working with his group Acrobat and Lutos\u0142awski Quartet, complementing his incisive arrangements of music by the composer Witold Lutos\u0142awski with brand new adaptations of music by Karol Szymanowski.\\nKris Davis and the Lutoslawski Quartet will premier The Solastalgia Suite. Drawing inspiration from Messiaen's hauntingly beautiful \u201cQuartet for the End of Time,\u201d which was composed amidst the turmoil of World War II, The Solastalgia Suite channels a similar sense of existential fear and introspection. Davis skillfully blends influences from Messiaen, Beyonc\u00e9, and Cecil Taylor, weaving a rich tapestry of sounds that seamlessly integrates written compositions with improvisational elements. \\nAs part of Jazztopad\u2019s commitment to erasing borders this year\u2019s program includes Hand to Earth, a group from Australia led by trumpeter Peter Knight and featuring two aboriginal members\u2014brothers David and Daniel Wilfred, keepers of one of the oldest known vocal traditions. There have been several iterations of Hand to Earth but the version that comes to New York, \u201cThe Crow\u201d co-commissioned by the Melbourne International Jazz Festival, is special thanks to the participation of Polish improvising violinist and composer Amalia Umeda. The ensemble, which also includes the acclaimed saxophonist Aviva Endean, uses expansive improvisation to meld ambient sounds and traditional \u2018Manikay\u2019 (public songs) sung in Wagil\u00e4k.\\nPROGRAM\\nThursday June 13, 2024 at 7:00 PM and 9:00 PMDizzy\u2019s Club, Jazz at Lincoln Center 10 Columbus Circle, New York, NY 10019Kris Davis & Lutos\u0142awski Quartet - World Premiere of The Solastalgia Suite\\nFriday, June 14, 2024 at 7:30 PMJersey City Theater Center165 Newark Avenue Entrance from, Barrow St, Jersey City, NJ 07302Voices International Fest\/Hand to Earth\\nFriday, June 14, 2024 at 8:00 PMBarb\u00e8s376 9th St, Brooklyn, NY 11215Amalia Umeda + Lesley Mok + Michael Bates + Marta Sanchez\\nFriday, June 14, 2024 at 8:00 PM \u2013 PhiladelphiaSolar Myth1131 S Broad St, Philadelphia, PA 19147Kris Davis + Lutos\u0142awski Quartet\\nSaturday, June 15, 2024 at 4:30 PMHearst Plaza at Lincoln Center Out of Doors30 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023North American Premiere of \u201cThe Crow\u201d by Hand to Earth with Amalia Umeda\\nSaturday, June 15, 2024 at 8:00 PMBarb\u00e8s376 9th St, Brooklyn, NY 11215Michael Bates Acrobat with Lutos\u0142awski Quartet\\nSunday, June 16, 2024 at 5:00 PMRizzoli Bookstore1133 Broadway, New York, NY 10010Stephan Crump + Amalia Umeda + Hamid Drake\\nSunday, June 16, 2024 at 8:00 PM (doors 7:00 PM)Public Records233 Butler St., Brooklyn, NY 11217BUNGUL \u2013 Hamid Drake + Amalia Umeda + Peter Knight + Sunny Kim + Aviva Endean +Daniel Wilfred + David Wilfred\\nARTISTS\\nWhen creating music, what violinist, composer and arranger Amalia Umeda values most is the possibility of manipulating space, reflecting various emotional states, building tensions, and illustrating even the most abstract ideas. 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Amalia is the winner of the 3rd prize at the Zbigniew Seifert International Jazz Violin Competition 2022, a special prize at the Young Crocus Jazz Contest 2021 (Amalia Umeda Quartet), and the 2nd prize at the Blue Note Pozna\u0144 Competition 2020 (solo category).\\nKris Davis is a Grammy\u00ae award-winning pianist and composer described by The New York Times as a beacon for \u201cdeciding where to hear jazz (in New York) on a given night.\u201d Davis has released 24 recordings as a leader or co-leader and collaborated with artists such as Terri Lyne Carrington, Dave Holland, John Zorn, Craig Taborn, Ingrid Laubrock, Tyshawn Sorey, Julian Lage and Esperanza Spalding. She was named a 2021 Doris Duke Artist alongside Wayne Shorter and Danilo Perez, Pianist of the Year by DownBeat magazine in 2022 and 2020, and Pianist and Composer of the Year by the Jazz Journalists Association in 2021. Davis\u2019 latest release, Diatom Ribbons Live at the Village Vanguard, was voted best album of 2023 by NPR and PopMatters among others. Davis is the Associate Program Director of Creative Development for the Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice and the founder of Pyroclastic Records and the IMCCW. Davis is a Steinway Artist.\\nThe Lutos\u0142awski Quartet performs contemporary music as well as recently commissioned pieces, and focuses on popularizing Polish music, including works by Lutos\u0142awski, Bacewicz, Szymanowski, and also compositions by one of the group members \u2013 Marcin Markowicz. An ensemble made up of versatile and open-minded artists, they blend the contemporary repertoire with the gems of Classical, Romantic and jazz music. They have worked with Charles Lloyd, Vijay Iyer, Kenny Wheeler, John Taylor, Sylvie Courvousier, Mark Feldman, James Brandon Lewis and other jazz greats, and recorded the world\u2019s first album of Witold Lutos\u0142awski\u2019s chamber works for the Accord label.\\nMichael Bates\u2019 AcrobatSince his debut album Outside Sources (2004), Canadian bassist-composer Michael Bates felt that even contemporary jazz constrained him, saying that he takes inspiration from Miles Davis equally as from the punk recordings of Bad Brains. It was from punk that he started his adventure with music composition and performance. He pushed new boundaries with Acrobat (a quintet led by Bates) daringly taking up the legacy and composition technique of Shostakovich (titled Music for, and by, Dmitri Shostakovich, 2011). From that project, it was a short way to Bates\u2019 discovery of one of Poland\u2019s most significant 20th-century composers, Witold Lutos\u0142awski. Bates\u2019 arrangements of this composer\u2019s works were premiered by Acrobat and Lutos\u0142awski Quartet during the New York edition of Jazztopad festival in June 2022. Several months later in Wroc\u0142aw, the musicians met up again in order to record the music and thus preserve their fantastic adventure for the future generations.\\nHand to Earth - A call to open ears \u2013 eluding genre, traversing continents, fusing the ancient and the contemporary. Hand to Earth developed during an Australia Art Orchestra* residency in the remote highlands of Tasmania. Yolgnu songman, Daniel Wilfred and Korean vocalist, Sunny Kim, formed an effortless rapport that spans continents and cultures and yet expresses a deeply human commonality. Their vocal approaches are melded into the electronic atmospheres created by trumpeter and composer, Peter Knight, who draws on the minimalism of Brian Eno and Jon Hassell to create a bed for these beautifully contrasting voices. Daniel sings in his native language, and is the keeper of Yolgnu manikay (songs) from Northeast Arnhem Land that can be traced back over 40,000 years. His is the oldest continuously practiced musical tradition in the world. Kim sings in English and Korean and intones wordless gestures that invoke raw elemental forces. Together they sing of the stars, of fire, and of the cooling rain, against the sounds of Peter Knight\u2019s trumpet and electronic crackles. Hand to Earth expresses something of the here and now in music, and represents contemporary Australia at its best: sophisticated, inclusive, diverse, and forward looking. Concert highlights have included Pierre Boulez Saal Berlin, WOMADelaide, Darwin Festival, and a tour of Australia\u2019s Northern Territory.\\nPeter Knight \u2013 trumpet, electronics, percussion (Hand to Earth)\\nPerpetually curious, composer\/trumpeter\/sound artist Peter Knight\u2019s practice exists in the spaces between categories, between genres, and between cultures. Peter has emerged as a significant international force in contemporary music, initiating commissions, collaborations, and performances with a diverse range of artists including recently, Anthony Braxton (USA), Nicole Liz\u00e9e (Canada), Amir ElSaffar (USA), Daniel Wilfred (Arnhem Land), Hyelim Kim (UK\/Korea),\u202f Baliphonics (Sri Lanka), and Alvin Lucier (USA).\u202f Peter was artistic director of the Australian Art Orchestra from 2013-23 and led the group to\u202f multiple awards and accolades. In addition to his role with the AAO Peter regularly presents his\u202f music as both performer and composer in a range of settings; he also composes for contemporary theater, film, and creates sound installations. Peter has won numerous awards, nominations, and\u202f fellowships. He holds a doctorate from Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University.\u202f\\nDavid Wilfred \u2013 yidaki, voice, dance (Hand to Earth)David Yipininy Wilfred is a Ritharr\u014bu man, and the traditional Djunggayi (manager) of the manikay\u202fof the country of Nyilipidgi. He lives in Ngukurr, NT and teaches song and dance to the children at the Ngukurr School. Together with his family members Benjamin Wilfred and Daniel Wilfred, he\u202f has been playing with the Australian Art Orchestra for almost 15 years, sharing their songs and culture with people\u202faround the world. Together with Daniel, he was awarded the NT Luminary Award for \u2018cultural\u202fleadership and sustained creative contributions in Australia and beyond\u2019 during the 2020 Art Music\u202f Awards by APRA AMCOS and the Australian Music Centre.\u202f\\nSunny (Yoon Sun) Kim \u2013 voice, electronics, percussion (Hand to Earth)\\nSunny Kim is a Korea-born vocalist, improviser, composer and educator based in Melbourne,\u202fAustralia. She is a Lecturer at the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music of the University of Melbourne,\u202fAustralia. Prior to her current position, Sunny was Assistant Professor in Applied Music Studies at\u202f the Dongah Institute of Media and Arts (South Korea). After completing her studies in jazz at the New England Conservatory in Boston, Sunny moved to New York in 2005 where she performed\u202f and recorded with many internationally renowned musicians. 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Her work seeks engagement beyond the boundaries of her art form, to reimagine the possibilities of a practice with sound.\u202f Aviva was the inaugural recipient of the Australian Art Orchestra\u2019s \u2018Pathfinder\u2019 Music Leadership\u202fprogram, which offered her a one-year Associate Artist position with the company. Her other\u202fpositions have included \u2018Emerging Artist in Residence\u2019 with both Chamber Made and ASTRA\u202fChamber Music Society, and Associate Artist for the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity (Canada).\u202f Aviva is the recipient of numerous Awards including the Freedman Music Fellowship (2015).\\nHamid Drake is an American jazz drummer and percussionist. By the close of the 1990s, Hamid Drake was widely regarded as one of the best percussionists in jazz and improvised music. Incorporating Afro-Cuban, Indian, and African percussion instruments and influence, in addition to using the standard trap set, Drake has collaborated extensively with top free jazz improvisers. Drake also has performed world music; by the late 1970s, he was a member of Foday Musa Suso's Mandingo Griot Society and has played reggae throughout his career. Drake has worked with trumpeter Don Cherry, pianist Herbie Hancock, saxophonists Pharoah Sanders, Fred Anderson, Archie Shepp and David Murray and bassists Reggie Workman and William Parker (in many lineups). He studied drums extensively, including eastern and Caribbean styles. He frequently plays without sticks, using his hands to develop subtle commanding undertones. His tabla playing is notable for his subtlety and flair. Drake's questing nature and his interest in Caribbean percussion led to a deep involvement with reggae. \\nLesley Mok is a New York City-based percussionist and interdisciplinary artist who works in sound, installation, film, and theater. Interested in the ways social conditions shape our beings, Lesley\u2019s work focuses on overacting humanness to explore ideas about alienness and privilege. Their work draws from queer and feminist art practices, Chinese philosophy, Afro-Cuban musical traditions, futurist perspectives, and ancestral knowledge. As a percussionist, Lesley has performed alongside Tomeka Reid, William Parker, Ingrid Laubrock, Mary Malvorson, Kenny Barron, John Patitucci, Cory Smythe, Jen Shyu, Kalia Vandever, Fay Victor, Adam O\u2019Farrill, and others. They have performed throughout the Americas and Europe, including Roulette Intermedium, SF Jazz, Ringling Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Art, Unerh\u00f6rt Festival, Jazzowa Jesien, Cologne Jazz Festival, moers festival, Panama Jazz Festival, and Dominican Republic Jazz Festival. \\nBorn and raised in Madrid, Spain, pianist and composer Marta S\u00e1nchez is actively working in the contemporary creative music scene in New York City and around the globe. Charting a significant path through her innovative and original music, she has reached an international audience, gaining significant global recognition. Marta\u2019s main project, her quintet, was created soon after she moved to New York, and since then has released four albums: \u201cPartenika\u201d (2015), \u201cDanza Imposible\u201d (2017), and \u201cEl Rayo de Luz\u201d (2019) with the Spanish label Fresh Sound and SAAM (Spanish American Art Museum) with Whirlwind Recordings. She has toured the United States, Europe, South America, and Central America, performing as a leader or as a sideman at prestigious venues and prominent festivals such as North Sea Jazz Festival in the Netherlands, Eurojazz in Mexico City, Eurojazz in Athens, Jazz Festival Vitoria Gasteiz, Winter Jazz Festival in New York, and Madrid among many others. In the United States she has performed at some of the most prestigious clubs including the Blue Note, Birdland, Roulette, Jazz Gallery, 55 Bar, The Cell Theater, Cornelia Street Cafe, or Blue Whale.\\nMemphis-bred, Grammy-nominated, Echo Award-winning bassist\/composer Stephan Crump is an active bandleader with fourteen critically acclaimed album releases in addition to numerous films scoring contributions. Known for transforming his instrument into a speaking entity of magnetic pull, his focus on creative instrumental music has led to collaborations with many leading lights of his generation.\u202f \\nABOUT THE FESTIVAL\\nJazztopad Festival, the leading event of its kind in Poland, has organized satellite editions all over the world (Japan, Turkey, South Korea) in collaboration with such partners as Jarasum International Jazz Festival, Tokyo Jazz Festival, Akbank Jazz Festival, TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival and Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City. For 20 years, the festival has been commissioning music from some of the most important American artists including Wayne Shorter, Charles Lloyd, Jason Moran, William Parker, Vijay Iyer and Terence Blanchard, James Brandon Lewis and Craig Taborn. 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intersections between jazz, contemporary classical, electronic and other music without borders, Poland\u2019s Jazztopad Festival returns to New York for the seventh time with sets from genre-expanding artists...\u201d \u2013 Alan Scherstuhl, The New York Times\n\u201c...Jazztopad stands as an internationally renowned festival with a clearly defined ethos, one that combines a strong respect for the traditions and roots of the music with a progressive vision that provides a platform for the contemporary and innovative.\u201d\u202f\u2013 Ian Patterson, AllAboutJazz.com\n \u201cJazztopad Festival meets the high standards set by its predecessors and invites healthy debate on key issues in arts programming.\u201d \u2013 Kevin Le Gendre, Jazzwise\n \u201cA model for what a jazz festival can be, Jazztopad is fertile soil for commissioned works and adventure-minded programming.\u201d \u2013 Joe Woodard, Down Beat\n\u201cThe Jazztopad Festival, a leading event of its kind in Poland\u2026\u201d \u2013 Nate Chinen, The New York Times\nJazztopad Festival, June 13-16, 2024\nConcerts will take place in Manhattan at Lincoln Center Out of Doors, Rizzoli Bookstore, Dizzy\u2019s Club at Jazz at Lincoln Center; and in Brooklyn at Public Records and Barb\u00e8s.\nLineup includes Kris Davis performing the World Premiere of \u2018The Solastalgia Suite\u2019, with Lutos\u0142awski Quartet, Amalia Umeda, Hand To Earth (Daniel and David Wilfred, Peter Knight, Sunny Kim, Aviva Endean), Michael Bates Acrobat, Lesley Mok, Stephan Crump, Hamid Drake, Marta Sanchez & more.\nThe paradigm-shifting Polish festival Jazztopad makes its annual return to New York City this summer, with a series of genre-blurring events in venues around the city between June 13-16, 2024. The program includes the world premiere of a new Kris Davis work featuring her own piano playing and the acclaimed Polish string ensemble Lutos\u0142awski Quartet, as well as intimate improv sessions built around the young Polish violinist Amalia Umeda, all reflecting a holistic embrace of creative music unencumbered by arbitrary genre boundaries. The program will also feature the North American premiere of \u201cThe Crow\u201d by the Australian ensemble Hand to Earth along with performances by bassist Michael Bates, working with his group Acrobat and Lutos\u0142awski Quartet, complementing his incisive arrangements of music by the composer Witold Lutos\u0142awski with brand new adaptations of music by Karol Szymanowski.\nKris Davis and the Lutoslawski Quartet will premier The Solastalgia Suite. Drawing inspiration from Messiaen's hauntingly beautiful \u201cQuartet for the End of Time,\u201d which was composed amidst the turmoil of World War II, The Solastalgia Suite channels a similar sense of existential fear and introspection. Davis skillfully blends influences from Messiaen, Beyonc\u00e9, and Cecil Taylor, weaving a rich tapestry of sounds that seamlessly integrates written compositions with improvisational elements. \nAs part of Jazztopad\u2019s commitment to erasing borders this year\u2019s program includes Hand to Earth, a group from Australia led by trumpeter Peter Knight and featuring two aboriginal members\u2014brothers David and Daniel Wilfred, keepers of one of the oldest known vocal traditions. There have been several iterations of Hand to Earth but the version that comes to New York, \u201cThe Crow\u201d co-commissioned by the Melbourne International Jazz Festival, is special thanks to the participation of Polish improvising violinist and composer Amalia Umeda. The ensemble, which also includes the acclaimed saxophonist Aviva Endean, uses expansive improvisation to meld ambient sounds and traditional \u2018Manikay\u2019 (public songs) sung in Wagil\u00e4k.\nPROGRAM\nThursday June 13, 2024 at 7:00 PM and 9:00 PMDizzy\u2019s Club, Jazz at Lincoln Center 10 Columbus Circle, New York, NY 10019Kris Davis & Lutos\u0142awski Quartet - World Premiere of The Solastalgia Suite\nFriday, June 14, 2024 at 7:30 PMJersey City Theater Center165 Newark Avenue Entrance from, Barrow St, Jersey City, NJ 07302Voices International Fest\/Hand to Earth\nFriday, June 14, 2024 at 8:00 PMBarb\u00e8s376 9th St, Brooklyn, NY 11215Amalia Umeda + Lesley Mok + Michael Bates + Marta Sanchez\nFriday, June 14, 2024 at 8:00 PM \u2013 PhiladelphiaSolar Myth1131 S Broad St, Philadelphia, PA 19147Kris Davis + Lutos\u0142awski Quartet\nSaturday, June 15, 2024 at 4:30 PMHearst Plaza at Lincoln Center Out of Doors30 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023North American Premiere of \u201cThe Crow\u201d by Hand to Earth with Amalia Umeda\nSaturday, June 15, 2024 at 8:00 PMBarb\u00e8s376 9th St, Brooklyn, NY 11215Michael Bates Acrobat with Lutos\u0142awski Quartet\nSunday, June 16, 2024 at 5:00 PMRizzoli Bookstore1133 Broadway, New York, NY 10010Stephan Crump + Amalia Umeda + Hamid Drake\nSunday, June 16, 2024 at 8:00 PM (doors 7:00 PM)Public Records233 Butler St., Brooklyn, NY 11217BUNGUL \u2013 Hamid Drake + Amalia Umeda + Peter Knight + Sunny Kim + Aviva Endean +Daniel Wilfred + David Wilfred\nARTISTS\nWhen creating music, what violinist, composer and arranger Amalia Umeda values most is the possibility of manipulating space, reflecting various emotional states, building tensions, and illustrating even the most abstract ideas. Amalia is one of 6 artists selected for the international program Footprints Europe 2021. In August 2022, as a result of that program, her quartet started the Nowo\u015bwit Footprints tour. The tour included concerts at the Oslo Jazz Festival (Oslo, Norway), Umea Jazz Festival (Umea, Sweden), Cologne Jazzweek\/NICA Exchange (Cologne, Germany), Nasjonal Jazzscene (Oslo, Norway), NOSPR (Katowice, Poland), Periscope (Lyon, France), Bimhuis (Amsterdam, Netherlands), and Jazzahead! European Showcase (Bremen, Germany). Amalia is the winner of the 3rd prize at the Zbigniew Seifert International Jazz Violin Competition 2022, a special prize at the Young Crocus Jazz Contest 2021 (Amalia Umeda Quartet), and the 2nd prize at the Blue Note Pozna\u0144 Competition 2020 (solo category).\nKris Davis is a Grammy\u00ae award-winning pianist and composer described by The New York Times as a beacon for \u201cdeciding where to hear jazz (in New York) on a given night.\u201d Davis has released 24 recordings as a leader or co-leader and collaborated with artists such as Terri Lyne Carrington, Dave Holland, John Zorn, Craig Taborn, Ingrid Laubrock, Tyshawn Sorey, Julian Lage and Esperanza Spalding. She was named a 2021 Doris Duke Artist alongside Wayne Shorter and Danilo Perez, Pianist of the Year by DownBeat magazine in 2022 and 2020, and Pianist and Composer of the Year by the Jazz Journalists Association in 2021. Davis\u2019 latest release, Diatom Ribbons Live at the Village Vanguard, was voted best album of 2023 by NPR and PopMatters among others. Davis is the Associate Program Director of Creative Development for the Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice and the founder of Pyroclastic Records and the IMCCW. Davis is a Steinway Artist.\nThe Lutos\u0142awski Quartet performs contemporary music as well as recently commissioned pieces, and focuses on popularizing Polish music, including works by Lutos\u0142awski, Bacewicz, Szymanowski, and also compositions by one of the group members \u2013 Marcin Markowicz. An ensemble made up of versatile and open-minded artists, they blend the contemporary repertoire with the gems of Classical, Romantic and jazz music. They have worked with Charles Lloyd, Vijay Iyer, Kenny Wheeler, John Taylor, Sylvie Courvousier, Mark Feldman, James Brandon Lewis and other jazz greats, and recorded the world\u2019s first album of Witold Lutos\u0142awski\u2019s chamber works for the Accord label.\nMichael Bates\u2019 AcrobatSince his debut album Outside Sources (2004), Canadian bassist-composer Michael Bates felt that even contemporary jazz constrained him, saying that he takes inspiration from Miles Davis equally as from the punk recordings of Bad Brains. It was from punk that he started his adventure with music composition and performance. He pushed new boundaries with Acrobat (a quintet led by Bates) daringly taking up the legacy and composition technique of Shostakovich (titled Music for, and by, Dmitri Shostakovich, 2011). From that project, it was a short way to Bates\u2019 discovery of one of Poland\u2019s most significant 20th-century composers, Witold Lutos\u0142awski. Bates\u2019 arrangements of this composer\u2019s works were premiered by Acrobat and Lutos\u0142awski Quartet during the New York edition of Jazztopad festival in June 2022. Several months later in Wroc\u0142aw, the musicians met up again in order to record the music and thus preserve their fantastic adventure for the future generations.\nHand to Earth - A call to open ears \u2013 eluding genre, traversing continents, fusing the ancient and the contemporary. Hand to Earth developed during an Australia Art Orchestra* residency in the remote highlands of Tasmania. Yolgnu songman, Daniel Wilfred and Korean vocalist, Sunny Kim, formed an effortless rapport that spans continents and cultures and yet expresses a deeply human commonality. Their vocal approaches are melded into the electronic atmospheres created by trumpeter and composer, Peter Knight, who draws on the minimalism of Brian Eno and Jon Hassell to create a bed for these beautifully contrasting voices. Daniel sings in his native language, and is the keeper of Yolgnu manikay (songs) from Northeast Arnhem Land that can be traced back over 40,000 years. His is the oldest continuously practiced musical tradition in the world. Kim sings in English and Korean and intones wordless gestures that invoke raw elemental forces. Together they sing of the stars, of fire, and of the cooling rain, against the sounds of Peter Knight\u2019s trumpet and electronic crackles. Hand to Earth expresses something of the here and now in music, and represents contemporary Australia at its best: sophisticated, inclusive, diverse, and forward looking. Concert highlights have included Pierre Boulez Saal Berlin, WOMADelaide, Darwin Festival, and a tour of Australia\u2019s Northern Territory.\nPeter Knight \u2013 trumpet, electronics, percussion (Hand to Earth)\nPerpetually curious, composer\/trumpeter\/sound artist Peter Knight\u2019s practice exists in the spaces between categories, between genres, and between cultures. Peter has emerged as a significant international force in contemporary music, initiating commissions, collaborations, and performances with a diverse range of artists including recently, Anthony Braxton (USA), Nicole Liz\u00e9e (Canada), Amir ElSaffar (USA), Daniel Wilfred (Arnhem Land), Hyelim Kim (UK\/Korea),\u202f Baliphonics (Sri Lanka), and Alvin Lucier (USA).\u202f Peter was artistic director of the Australian Art Orchestra from 2013-23 and led the group to\u202f multiple awards and accolades. In addition to his role with the AAO Peter regularly presents his\u202f music as both performer and composer in a range of settings; he also composes for contemporary theater, film, and creates sound installations. Peter has won numerous awards, nominations, and\u202f fellowships. He holds a doctorate from Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University.\u202f\nDavid Wilfred \u2013 yidaki, voice, dance (Hand to Earth)David Yipininy Wilfred is a Ritharr\u014bu man, and the traditional Djunggayi (manager) of the manikay\u202fof the country of Nyilipidgi. He lives in Ngukurr, NT and teaches song and dance to the children at the Ngukurr School. Together with his family members Benjamin Wilfred and Daniel Wilfred, he\u202f has been playing with the Australian Art Orchestra for almost 15 years, sharing their songs and culture with people\u202faround the world. Together with Daniel, he was awarded the NT Luminary Award for \u2018cultural\u202fleadership and sustained creative contributions in Australia and beyond\u2019 during the 2020 Art Music\u202f Awards by APRA AMCOS and the Australian Music Centre.\u202f\nSunny (Yoon Sun) Kim \u2013 voice, electronics, percussion (Hand to Earth)\nSunny Kim is a Korea-born vocalist, improviser, composer and educator based in Melbourne,\u202fAustralia. She is a Lecturer at the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music of the University of Melbourne,\u202fAustralia. Prior to her current position, Sunny was Assistant Professor in Applied Music Studies at\u202f the Dongah Institute of Media and Arts (South Korea). After completing her studies in jazz at the New England Conservatory in Boston, Sunny moved to New York in 2005 where she performed\u202f and recorded with many internationally renowned musicians. She\u2019s a two-time winner of Jazz\u202fPeople Magazine\u2019s Reader\u2019s Poll Awards in Best Vocalist category and collaborates with\u202fcontemporary and traditional musicians, dancers, and visual artists to explore expressions\u202fregarding identity, spirituality, gender, and cross-disciplinary art forms. Sunny has released five albums as a leader.\u202f\nAviva Endean \u2013 bass clarinet, harmonic flute, electronics\u202f(Hand to Earth)Aviva Endean is a clarinetist, composer, improviser, curator, sound artist, performance-maker and\u202fcollaborator. Aviva regularly works across a range of contexts including experimental and\u202fimprovised music, new chamber music, creating theatre works which are designed to be listened\u202fto and working on cross-disciplinary collaborations. Her work seeks engagement beyond the boundaries of her art form, to reimagine the possibilities of a practice with sound.\u202f Aviva was the inaugural recipient of the Australian Art Orchestra\u2019s \u2018Pathfinder\u2019 Music Leadership\u202fprogram, which offered her a one-year Associate Artist position with the company. Her other\u202fpositions have included \u2018Emerging Artist in Residence\u2019 with both Chamber Made and ASTRA\u202fChamber Music Society, and Associate Artist for the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity (Canada).\u202f Aviva is the recipient of numerous Awards including the Freedman Music Fellowship (2015).\nHamid Drake is an American jazz drummer and percussionist. By the close of the 1990s, Hamid Drake was widely regarded as one of the best percussionists in jazz and improvised music. Incorporating Afro-Cuban, Indian, and African percussion instruments and influence, in addition to using the standard trap set, Drake has collaborated extensively with top free jazz improvisers. Drake also has performed world music; by the late 1970s, he was a member of Foday Musa Suso's Mandingo Griot Society and has played reggae throughout his career. Drake has worked with trumpeter Don Cherry, pianist Herbie Hancock, saxophonists Pharoah Sanders, Fred Anderson, Archie Shepp and David Murray and bassists Reggie Workman and William Parker (in many lineups). He studied drums extensively, including eastern and Caribbean styles. He frequently plays without sticks, using his hands to develop subtle commanding undertones. His tabla playing is notable for his subtlety and flair. Drake's questing nature and his interest in Caribbean percussion led to a deep involvement with reggae. \nLesley Mok is a New York City-based percussionist and interdisciplinary artist who works in sound, installation, film, and theater. Interested in the ways social conditions shape our beings, Lesley\u2019s work focuses on overacting humanness to explore ideas about alienness and privilege. Their work draws from queer and feminist art practices, Chinese philosophy, Afro-Cuban musical traditions, futurist perspectives, and ancestral knowledge. As a percussionist, Lesley has performed alongside Tomeka Reid, William Parker, Ingrid Laubrock, Mary Malvorson, Kenny Barron, John Patitucci, Cory Smythe, Jen Shyu, Kalia Vandever, Fay Victor, Adam O\u2019Farrill, and others. They have performed throughout the Americas and Europe, including Roulette Intermedium, SF Jazz, Ringling Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Art, Unerh\u00f6rt Festival, Jazzowa Jesien, Cologne Jazz Festival, moers festival, Panama Jazz Festival, and Dominican Republic Jazz Festival. \nBorn and raised in Madrid, Spain, pianist and composer Marta S\u00e1nchez is actively working in the contemporary creative music scene in New York City and around the globe. Charting a significant path through her innovative and original music, she has reached an international audience, gaining significant global recognition. Marta\u2019s main project, her quintet, was created soon after she moved to New York, and since then has released four albums: \u201cPartenika\u201d (2015), \u201cDanza Imposible\u201d (2017), and \u201cEl Rayo de Luz\u201d (2019) with the Spanish label Fresh Sound and SAAM (Spanish American Art Museum) with Whirlwind Recordings. She has toured the United States, Europe, South America, and Central America, performing as a leader or as a sideman at prestigious venues and prominent festivals such as North Sea Jazz Festival in the Netherlands, Eurojazz in Mexico City, Eurojazz in Athens, Jazz Festival Vitoria Gasteiz, Winter Jazz Festival in New York, and Madrid among many others. In the United States she has performed at some of the most prestigious clubs including the Blue Note, Birdland, Roulette, Jazz Gallery, 55 Bar, The Cell Theater, Cornelia Street Cafe, or Blue Whale.\nMemphis-bred, Grammy-nominated, Echo Award-winning bassist\/composer Stephan Crump is an active bandleader with fourteen critically acclaimed album releases in addition to numerous films scoring contributions. Known for transforming his instrument into a speaking entity of magnetic pull, his focus on creative instrumental music has led to collaborations with many leading lights of his generation.\u202f \nABOUT THE FESTIVAL\nJazztopad Festival, the leading event of its kind in Poland, has organized satellite editions all over the world (Japan, Turkey, South Korea) in collaboration with such partners as Jarasum International Jazz Festival, Tokyo Jazz Festival, Akbank Jazz Festival, TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival and Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City. For 20 years, the festival has been commissioning music from some of the most important American artists including Wayne Shorter, Charles Lloyd, Jason Moran, William Parker, Vijay Iyer and Terence Blanchard, James Brandon Lewis and Craig Taborn. The international creative partnerships of Jazztopad include such prestigious organizations as the Monterey Jazz Festival, Kennedy Center, London Jazz Festival and Los Angeles Philharmonic. Live recordings from the festival have been released on ECM and Blue Note Records.\nSince Artistic Director Piotr Turkiewicz and General Director Andrzej Kosendiak took the reins in 2008, the event has become one of Europe\u2019s premier jazz festivals, a dynamic endeavor that showcases the finest homegrown talent and engages some of the most storied figures in the music\u2019s history with ambitious commissions. From the beginning, Turkiewicz has sought to elevate jazz from his homeland, programming local musicians in Wroc\u0142aw, but also organizing performances for them around the world, in collaboration with renowned jazz artists in the US and other countries.\nThis project is organized by the National Forum of Music in Wroc\u0142aw in partnership with the Polish Cultural Institute New York."},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"pl-PL","@id":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/2024\/04\/30\/jazztopad-festival-new-york-2024\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/04\/ARTISTS-ALL_Jazztopad-2024_FINAL.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/04\/ARTISTS-ALL_Jazztopad-2024_FINAL.jpg","width":2063,"height":1169},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/2024\/04\/30\/jazztopad-festival-new-york-2024\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Jazztopad Festival New York 2024"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/#website","url":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/","name":"Instytut Polski w Nowym Jorku","description":"Instytuty Polskie","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"pl-PL"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/#\/schema\/person\/c732b2695ee92026d080eec35471c7f1","name":"stypulkowskaa","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"pl-PL","@id":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a29bb1802c91e057084d5d112dd59dc4?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a29bb1802c91e057084d5d112dd59dc4?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"stypulkowskaa"},"url":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/author\/stypulkowskaa-2\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11611"}],"version-history":[{"count":99,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13061,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11611\/revisions\/13061"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}