{"id":8493,"date":"2023-05-16T21:47:45","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T19:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/?p=8493"},"modified":"2023-06-30T16:36:24","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T14:36:24","slug":"jazztopad-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/2023\/05\/16\/jazztopad-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Jazztopad Festival New York 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Jazztopad, Poland\u2019s Premier Jazz Festival, Announces Stellar Program of Satellite Events in NYC, Philly, Vancouver<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Jazztopad Festival, a leading event of its kind in Poland\u2026<\/em>\u201d\u2013NATE CHINEN, THE NEW YORK TIMES<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2026Jazztopad 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.<\/em>\u201d\u2013IAN PATTERSON, ALLABOUTJAZZ.COM<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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June 23-30, 2023
Full Program Below<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shift, National Sawdust, Barb\u00e8s (Brooklyn)
Living Room Concert (TBA)
Solar Myth (Philadelphia)
Dizzy’s Club & Rubenstein Atrium, Lincoln Center (Manhattan)
+ Revue Stage at Vancouver International Jazz Festival (Canada)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Commissioned works for the Lutos\u0142awski Quartet in collaboration with Craig Taborn, Don Davis, Uri Caine & Michael Bates. Performances by Craig Taborn, Amir ElSaffar, Ole Mathiesen, Tomas Fujiwara, Ksawery W\u00f3jci\u0144ski, Maniucha Bikont, Joanna Duda, Max Mucha, Micha\u0142 Bryndal, Kirk Knuffke<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The 2023 US edition of Jazztopad<\/strong><\/a>, from June 23-30, will proudly feature a series of commissions from the acclaimed Lutos\u0142awski Quartet<\/strong> in collaboration with jazz piano luminaries Craig Taborn<\/strong> and Uri Caine<\/strong>, EMMY-winning composer Don Davis<\/strong> and sought-after bassist and composer Michael Bates<\/strong>. Iraqi-American trumpeter and composer Amir ElSaffar<\/strong> will also perform on opening night in a return Jazztopad engagement. Pianist Joanna Duda<\/strong> will present her trio; singer\/multi-instrumentalist Maniucha Bikont<\/strong> and bassist Ksawery W\u00f3jci\u0144ski<\/strong> will perform as well. The US edition of Jazztopad has been organised by the National Forum of Music in Wroc\u0142aw<\/strong> in partnership with the Polish Cultural Institute New York<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Jazztopad satellite events will kick off in three of Brooklyn\u2019s most cherished creative music venues: Shift<\/strong>, National Sawdust<\/strong> and Barb\u00e8s<\/strong>. On June 26, the festival takes a more intimate form as well with a series of Concerts in Living Rooms<\/strong> (details soon TBA). In nearby Philadelphia at Solar Myth<\/strong>, one of that historic jazz city\u2019s newest and most exciting venues booked by Mark Christman<\/strong> of Ars Nova Workshop<\/strong>, Philly\u2019s native son Uri Caine<\/strong> will perform. And continuing Jazztopad\u2019s successful and sustained partnership with Jazz at Lincoln Center<\/strong>, now in its ninth year, the festival will hold events at Dizzy\u2019s Club <\/strong>and Lincoln Center\u2019s David Rubenstein Atrium<\/strong> as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally, Jazztopad heads to Vancouver<\/strong>, British Columbia for a Canadian finale featuring Joanna Duda<\/strong> with Ksawery W\u00f3jci\u0144ski<\/strong> and trumpeter JP Carter<\/strong> and drummer Dylan van der Schyff<\/strong> as part of an ongoing collaboration and exchange of artists between Vancouver International Jazz Festival and Jazztopad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Program<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friday, June 23, 2023 at 8pm
<\/strong>FourOneOne<\/strong><\/a> (411 Kent Ave, Brooklyn, NY)
Amir ElSaffar Trio with Ole Mathisen & Tomas Fujiwara, Ksawery W\u00f3jci\u0144ski
Kamil Piotrowicz<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saturday, June 24, 2023 at 7:30pm<\/strong>
National Sawdust<\/strong><\/a> (80 N 6th St, Brooklyn, NY)
Craig Taborn with Lutos\u0142awski Quartet \u2013 \u201cLuminous Grid\u201d Premiere
Don Davis \u2013 \u201cScreaming Into The Void\u201d Premiere
Composed for the Lutos\u0142awski Quartet
Craig Taborn Solo & Duo with Ksawery W\u00f3jci\u0144ski<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sunday, June 25, 2023 at 8pm
<\/strong>Barb\u00e8s<\/strong><\/a> (376 9th St, Brooklyn, NY)
Joanna Duda, Kirk Knuffke, Ksawery W\u00f3jci\u0144ski, Lesley Mok
Max Mucha, Micha\u0142 Bryndal, Kamil Piotrowicz, Maniucha Bikont<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sunday, June 25, 2023 at 1pm<\/strong>
Living Room Concert<\/strong> (TBA)
Festival Artists, Local Artists<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Monday, June 26, 2023, 8pm
<\/strong>Solar Myth<\/strong><\/a> (1131 S Broad St, Philadelphia, PA)
Uri Caine Solo & with the Lutos\u0142awski Quartet<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tuesday, June 27, 2023 at 7:30pm and 9:30pm
<\/strong>Dizzy\u2019s Club, Jazz at Lincoln Center<\/strong><\/a> (10 Columbus Circle, New York, NY)
Joanna Duda Trio<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wednesday, June 28, 2023 at 7:30pm<\/strong>
David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center<\/a><\/strong> (61 W 62nd St, New York, NY)
Ksawery W\u00f3jci\u0144ski & Maniucha Bikont
Michael Bates\u2019 Acrobat + Lutos\u0142awski Quartet\u2014Metamorphosis<\/em> Album Premiere<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friday, June 30, 2023, 9:00pm
<\/strong>Coastal Jazz & Blues Society<\/strong><\/a> (Revue Stage, 295 W 7th Ave 2nd floor VANCOUVER, BC)
Joanna Duda + Ksawery W\u00f3jci\u0144ski + JP Carter + Dylan Van Der Schyff<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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CRAIG TABORN
\u00a9 Rue Sakamoto<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Craig Taborn\u2019s \u201cLuminous Grid\u201d <\/strong>is the first part of a concert-length work in progress for string quartet and improvising pianist. The piece is inspired in part by the work of Agnes Martin, whose abstract work strikes a balance between what at first seems meditative, static and balanced lines and grids but upon closer examination reveals a secret dynamism and beautiful instability. The piece involves the interaction between the string quartet and piano in an unfolding sound tapestry that seeks to both cleave to and escape from the condition of balance<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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JOANNA DUDA
\u00a9 Maria Jarzyna<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Joanna Duda<\/strong>, pianist, composer and improviser, creates experimental music with elements of jazz and contemporary classical. Her main projects are solo (KEEN<\/em>, 2019) and the Joanna Duda Trio (FUMITSUKE<\/em>, 2020), both of which involve the combining of electronic and acoustic sounds in an osmotic and organic way. The trio, with Max Mucha<\/strong> (double bass, fx) and Micha\u0142 Bryndal<\/strong> (drums, electronics), has performed in such prestigious venues as Ronnie Scott’s in London, Le Periscope in Lyon, Opus Jazz Club in Budapest and jazz festivals in Vancouver, Edmonton, Bremen and Helsinki. Duda also composed the music for the Erotica 2022 <\/em>Netflix series, and took part in the album UNCHAINED <\/em>with compositions by Julius Eastman, which was nominated for the International Classical Music Awards.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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MANIUCHA BIKONT
\u00a9 Wojtek Rudzki<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Maniucha Bikont<\/strong> is a singer and anthropologist with field research experience in Poland, Ukraine, Belarus and Russia. She is a member of musical and theatrical ensembles dealing with traditional music, rituals, improvisation and unconventional vocal techniques. Her duo with Ksawery W\u00f3jci\u0144ski combines jazz improvisation with the dying songs of Ukrainian Polesia in an original way. In their compositions they evoke spring, harvest, weddings, love, grandfatherly songs, carols and lullabies, combining them into stories mapping the cycles of nature and human life. Together they weave tales that transcend the boundaries of time and musical genre, drawing on archival recordings from Polish villages in the area.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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MICHAEL BATES<\/em>
Photo: Private Archive<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Michael Bates<\/strong>, joining the Lutos\u0142awski Quartet with his group Acrobat (Marty Ehrlich, Fung Chern Hwei, Sara Schoenbeck and Michael Sarin), will premiere music from his new album Metamorphosis<\/em>, a radically different interpretation of the revered Polish icon Witold Lutos\u0142awski. With literal themes or pieces composed in his spirit, Bates has created a powerful set of music that reveals a new way to think about pairing classical music and jazz. It features masterful re-orchestrations fueled by grooves found in both modern jazz and chamber ensembles. While Lutos\u0142awski is clearly being channelled, these nine fantastic voices will be on full display: beautiful, vicious, elegant and dissonant.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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KSAWERY W\u00d3JCI\u0143SKI 
\u00a9 Karol Sokolowsk<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Ksawery W\u00f3jci\u0144ski<\/strong> is a versatile double bassist and composer with great sensitivity to sound. His interests range from early music to the most sophisticated improvised contemporary music. He has collaborated with Charles Gayle, Miko\u0142aj Trzaska, Satoko Fuji, Nicole Mitchell, Ken Vandermark, Mats Gustafsson and many more, and is the cofounder of such formations as the legendary Emergency and Hera. He is also known for his vocal experiments, which recall the spirit of such artists as Tom Waits and Frank Zappa.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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URI CAINE
\u00a9 Bill Douthart<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Uri Caine<\/strong>, a Philadelphia native and GRAMMY nominee, recorded Space Kiss<\/em> (2017) with the Lutos\u0142awski Quartet (816 Music), and has led his own ensembles performing arrangements of Mahler, Wagner, Mozart, Verdi, Schumann and Bach. Recent compositions include Agent Orange<\/em> written for the Brussels Philharmonic and 4 Wunderhorn Songs<\/em> written for the SWF Orchestra. Caine also composed The Passion of Octavius Catto<\/em> for the Philadelphia Orchestra with a gospel choir celebrating the life of murdered Philadelphia civil rights leader Octavius Catto. Caine has also worked in groups led by Don Byron, Dave Douglas, John Zorn, Arto Lindsay, Sam Rivers and Barry Altschul, among many others.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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DON DAVIS
\u00a9 Left\u00e9ris Padavos<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Don Davis<\/strong>, in addition to his prolific work in film scoring including The Matrix<\/em>, has always maintained a busy concert career. His body of work includes the recently recorded Critical Mass for Orchestra<\/em>, four string quartets, four trios for flute\/harp\/viola, works for one and two pianos, an oratorio, choral works, various chamber works, and a full-length three-act opera R\u00edo de Sangre<\/em>. His work has been featured on recordings by the Arditti Quartet, the Debussy Trio, and the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. Davis looks forward to the premiere of his \u201cScreaming into the Void\u201d with the Lutos\u0142awski Quartet.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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AMIR ELSAFFAR
\u00a9 Michael Crommett<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Amir ElSaffar<\/strong> is a composer, trumpeter, santur player, and vocalist, a recipient of the Doris Duke Performing Artist Award and a 2018 US Artist Fellow. His is conversant in the language of contemporary jazz but has also created techniques to play microtones and ornaments idiomatic to Arabic music that are not typically heard on the trumpet. Additionally, he is a purveyor of the centuries-old, now endangered Iraqi maqam tradition, in which he performs actively as a vocalist and santur player. He has received commissions to compose for large and small jazz ensembles, traditional Middle Eastern ensembles, chamber orchestras, string quartets, and contemporary music ensembles, as well as dance troupes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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LUTOS\u0141AWSKI QUARTET
\u00a9 \u0141ukasz Rajchert<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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The Lutos\u0142awski Quartet<\/strong> performs contemporary music as well as recently commissioned pieces, and focuses on popularising 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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

The American edition of Jazztopad is an opportunity to discover the most important artists from the Polish contemporary jazz scene, a strongly recognizable brand in the world both in terms of quality of festivals and the craft of the artists.<\/p>\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 organised its satellite editions all over the world (Japan, Turkey, South Korea) in collaboration with such partners as Jarasum International Jazz Festival<\/strong>, Tokyo Jazz Festival<\/strong>, Akbank Jazz Festival<\/strong>, TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival <\/strong>and Jazz at Lincoln Center<\/strong> in New York City. For 20 years, the festival has been commissioning music from some of the most important American artists including Wayne Shorter<\/strong>, Charles Lloyd<\/strong>, Jason Moran<\/strong>, William Parker<\/strong>, Vijay Iyer<\/strong> and Terence Blanchard<\/strong>. The international creative partnerships of Jazztopad include such prestigious organizations as the Monterey Jazz Festival<\/strong>, Kennedy Center<\/strong>, London Jazz Festival<\/strong> and Los Angeles Philharmonic<\/strong>. Live recordings from the festival have been released on ECM<\/strong> and Blue Note Records<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

„I am extremely happy that for the 7th time we are able to present some of the most exciting and creative artists from Poland and the US. The program features several world premieres of pieces commissioned by or written for Jazztopad Festival. Triggering new collaborations, presenting new music and building a community have been the main features of our festival which started in Poland 20 years ago.<\/em>”  Piotr Turkiewicz, Jazztopad Festival Artistic Director<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since Piotr Turkiewicz<\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Performances by Craig Taborn, Amir ElSaffar, Ole Mathiesen, Tomas Fujiwara, Ksawery W\u00f3jci\u0144ski, Maniucha Bikont, Joanna Duda, Max Mucha, Micha\u0142 Bryndal, Kirk Knuffke.\\nThe 2023 US edition of Jazztopad, from June 23-30, will proudly feature a series of commissions from the acclaimed Lutos\u0142awski Quartet in collaboration with jazz piano luminaries Craig Taborn and Uri Caine, EMMY-winning composer Don Davis and sought-after bassist and composer Michael Bates. Iraqi-American trumpeter and composer Amir ElSaffar will also perform on opening night in a return Jazztopad engagement. Pianist Joanna Duda will present her trio; singer\/multi-instrumentalist Maniucha Bikont and bassist Ksawery W\u00f3jci\u0144ski will perform as well. The US edition of Jazztopad has been organised by the National Forum of Music in Wroc\u0142aw in partnership with the Polish Cultural Institute New York.\\nThe Jazztopad satellite events will kick off in three of Brooklyn\u2019s most cherished creative music venues: Shift, National Sawdust and Barb\u00e8s. On June 26, the festival takes a more intimate form as well with a series of Concerts in Living Rooms (details soon TBA). In nearby Philadelphia at Solar Myth, one of that historic jazz city\u2019s newest and most exciting venues booked by Mark Christman of Ars Nova Workshop, Philly\u2019s native son Uri Caine will perform. And continuing Jazztopad\u2019s successful and sustained partnership with Jazz at Lincoln Center, now in its ninth year, the festival will hold events at Dizzy\u2019s Club and Lincoln Center\u2019s David Rubenstein Atrium as well.\\nFinally, Jazztopad heads to Vancouver, British Columbia for a Canadian finale featuring Joanna Duda with Ksawery W\u00f3jci\u0144ski and trumpeter JP Carter and drummer Dylan van der Schyff as part of an ongoing collaboration and exchange of artists between Vancouver International Jazz Festival and Jazztopad.\\nProgram\\nFriday, June 23, 2023 at 8pmFourOneOne (411 Kent Ave, Brooklyn, NY)Amir ElSaffar Trio with Ole Mathisen & Tomas Fujiwara, Ksawery W\u00f3jci\u0144skiKamil Piotrowicz\\nSaturday, June 24, 2023 at 7:30pmNational Sawdust (80 N 6th St, Brooklyn, NY)Craig Taborn with Lutos\u0142awski Quartet \u2013 \u201cLuminous Grid\u201d PremiereDon Davis \u2013 \u201cScreaming Into The Void\u201d PremiereComposed for the Lutos\u0142awski QuartetCraig Taborn Solo & Duo with Ksawery W\u00f3jci\u0144ski\\nSunday, June 25, 2023 at 8pmBarb\u00e8s (376 9th St, Brooklyn, NY)Joanna Duda, Kirk Knuffke, Ksawery W\u00f3jci\u0144ski, Lesley MokMax Mucha, Micha\u0142 Bryndal, Kamil Piotrowicz, Maniucha Bikont\\nSunday, June 25, 2023 at 1pmLiving Room Concert (TBA)Festival Artists, Local Artists\\nMonday, June 26, 2023, 8pmSolar Myth (1131 S Broad St, Philadelphia, PA)Uri Caine Solo & with the Lutos\u0142awski Quartet\\nTuesday, June 27, 2023 at 7:30pm and 9:30pmDizzy\u2019s Club, Jazz at Lincoln Center (10 Columbus Circle, New York, NY)Joanna Duda Trio\\nWednesday, June 28, 2023 at 7:30pmDavid Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center (61 W 62nd St, New York, NY)Ksawery W\u00f3jci\u0144ski & Maniucha BikontMichael Bates\u2019 Acrobat + Lutos\u0142awski Quartet\u2014Metamorphosis Album Premiere\\nFriday, June 30, 2023, 9:00pmCoastal Jazz & Blues Society (Revue Stage, 295 W 7th Ave 2nd floor VANCOUVER, BC)Joanna Duda + Ksawery W\u00f3jci\u0144ski + JP Carter + Dylan Van Der Schyff\\nArtists\\nCraig Taborn\u2019s \u201cLuminous Grid\u201d is the first part of a concert-length work in progress for string quartet and improvising pianist. The piece is inspired in part by the work of Agnes Martin, whose abstract work strikes a balance between what at first seems meditative, static and balanced lines and grids but upon closer examination reveals a secret dynamism and beautiful instability. The piece involves the interaction between the string quartet and piano in an unfolding sound tapestry that seeks to both cleave to and escape from the condition of balance.\\nJoanna Duda, pianist, composer and improviser, creates experimental music with elements of jazz and contemporary classical. Her main projects are solo (KEEN, 2019) and the Joanna Duda Trio (FUMITSUKE, 2020), both of which involve the combining of electronic and acoustic sounds in an osmotic and organic way. The trio, with Max Mucha (double bass, fx) and Micha\u0142 Bryndal (drums, electronics), has performed in such prestigious venues as Ronnie Scott's in London, Le Periscope in Lyon, Opus Jazz Club in Budapest and jazz festivals in Vancouver, Edmonton, Bremen and Helsinki. Duda also composed the music for the Erotica 2022 Netflix series, and took part in the album UNCHAINED with compositions by Julius Eastman, which was nominated for the International Classical Music Awards.\\nManiucha Bikont is a singer and anthropologist with field research experience in Poland, Ukraine, Belarus and Russia. She is a member of musical and theatrical ensembles dealing with traditional music, rituals, improvisation and unconventional vocal techniques. Her duo with Ksawery W\u00f3jci\u0144ski combines jazz improvisation with the dying songs of Ukrainian Polesia in an original way. In their compositions they evoke spring, harvest, weddings, love, grandfatherly songs, carols and lullabies, combining them into stories mapping the cycles of nature and human life. Together they weave tales that transcend the boundaries of time and musical genre, drawing on archival recordings from Polish villages in the area.\\nMichael Bates, joining the Lutos\u0142awski Quartet with his group Acrobat (Marty Ehrlich, Fung Chern Hwei, Sara Schoenbeck and Michael Sarin), will premiere music from his new album Metamorphosis, a radically different interpretation of the revered Polish icon Witold Lutos\u0142awski. With literal themes or pieces composed in his spirit, Bates has created a powerful set of music that reveals a new way to think about pairing classical music and jazz. It features masterful re-orchestrations fueled by grooves found in both modern jazz and chamber ensembles. While Lutos\u0142awski is clearly being channelled, these nine fantastic voices will be on full display: beautiful, vicious, elegant and dissonant.\\nKsawery W\u00f3jci\u0144ski is a versatile double bassist and composer with great sensitivity to sound. His interests range from early music to the most sophisticated improvised contemporary music. He has collaborated with Charles Gayle, Miko\u0142aj Trzaska, Satoko Fuji, Nicole Mitchell, Ken Vandermark, Mats Gustafsson and many more, and is the cofounder of such formations as the legendary Emergency and Hera. He is also known for his vocal experiments, which recall the spirit of such artists as Tom Waits and Frank Zappa.\\nUri Caine, a Philadelphia native and GRAMMY nominee, recorded Space Kiss (2017) with the Lutos\u0142awski Quartet (816 Music), and has led his own ensembles performing arrangements of Mahler, Wagner, Mozart, Verdi, Schumann and Bach. Recent compositions include Agent Orange written for the Brussels Philharmonic and 4 Wunderhorn Songs written for the SWF Orchestra. Caine also composed The Passion of Octavius Catto for the Philadelphia Orchestra with a gospel choir celebrating the life of murdered Philadelphia civil rights leader Octavius Catto. Caine has also worked in groups led by Don Byron, Dave Douglas, John Zorn, Arto Lindsay, Sam Rivers and Barry Altschul, among many others.\\nDon Davis, in addition to his prolific work in film scoring including The Matrix, has always maintained a busy concert career. His body of work includes the recently recorded Critical Mass for Orchestra, four string quartets, four trios for flute\/harp\/viola, works for one and two pianos, an oratorio, choral works, various chamber works, and a full-length three-act opera R\u00edo de Sangre. His work has been featured on recordings by the Arditti Quartet, the Debussy Trio, and the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. Davis looks forward to the premiere of his \u201cScreaming into the Void\u201d with the Lutos\u0142awski Quartet.\\nAmir ElSaffar is a composer, trumpeter, santur player, and vocalist, a recipient of the Doris Duke Performing Artist Award and a 2018 US Artist Fellow. His is conversant in the language of contemporary jazz but has also created techniques to play microtones and ornaments idiomatic to Arabic music that are not typically heard on the trumpet. Additionally, he is a purveyor of the centuries-old, now endangered Iraqi maqam tradition, in which he performs actively as a vocalist and santur player. He has received commissions to compose for large and small jazz ensembles, traditional Middle Eastern ensembles, chamber orchestras, string quartets, and contemporary music ensembles, as well as dance troupes.\\nThe Lutos\u0142awski Quartet performs contemporary music as well as recently commissioned pieces, and focuses on popularising 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.\\nThe American edition of Jazztopad is an opportunity to discover the most important artists from the Polish contemporary jazz scene, a strongly recognizable brand in the world both in terms of quality of festivals and the craft of the artists.\\nAbout the Festival\\nJazztopad Festival, the leading event of its kind in Poland, has organised its 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. 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.\\n\\\"I am extremely happy that for the 7th time we are able to present some of the most exciting and creative artists from Poland and the US. The program features several world premieres of pieces commissioned by or written for Jazztopad Festival. Triggering new collaborations, presenting new music and building a community have been the main features of our festival which started in Poland 20 years ago.\\\" Piotr Turkiewicz, Jazztopad Festival Artistic Director\\nSince Piotr Turkiewicz 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. 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Performances by Craig Taborn, Amir ElSaffar, Ole Mathiesen, Tomas Fujiwara, Ksawery W\u00f3jci\u0144ski, Maniucha Bikont, Joanna Duda, Max Mucha, Micha\u0142 Bryndal, Kirk Knuffke.\nThe 2023 US edition of Jazztopad, from June 23-30, will proudly feature a series of commissions from the acclaimed Lutos\u0142awski Quartet in collaboration with jazz piano luminaries Craig Taborn and Uri Caine, EMMY-winning composer Don Davis and sought-after bassist and composer Michael Bates. Iraqi-American trumpeter and composer Amir ElSaffar will also perform on opening night in a return Jazztopad engagement. Pianist Joanna Duda will present her trio; singer\/multi-instrumentalist Maniucha Bikont and bassist Ksawery W\u00f3jci\u0144ski will perform as well. The US edition of Jazztopad has been organised by the National Forum of Music in Wroc\u0142aw in partnership with the Polish Cultural Institute New York.\nThe Jazztopad satellite events will kick off in three of Brooklyn\u2019s most cherished creative music venues: Shift, National Sawdust and Barb\u00e8s. On June 26, the festival takes a more intimate form as well with a series of Concerts in Living Rooms (details soon TBA). In nearby Philadelphia at Solar Myth, one of that historic jazz city\u2019s newest and most exciting venues booked by Mark Christman of Ars Nova Workshop, Philly\u2019s native son Uri Caine will perform. And continuing Jazztopad\u2019s successful and sustained partnership with Jazz at Lincoln Center, now in its ninth year, the festival will hold events at Dizzy\u2019s Club and Lincoln Center\u2019s David Rubenstein Atrium as well.\nFinally, Jazztopad heads to Vancouver, British Columbia for a Canadian finale featuring Joanna Duda with Ksawery W\u00f3jci\u0144ski and trumpeter JP Carter and drummer Dylan van der Schyff as part of an ongoing collaboration and exchange of artists between Vancouver International Jazz Festival and Jazztopad.\nProgram\nFriday, June 23, 2023 at 8pmFourOneOne (411 Kent Ave, Brooklyn, NY)Amir ElSaffar Trio with Ole Mathisen & Tomas Fujiwara, Ksawery W\u00f3jci\u0144skiKamil Piotrowicz\nSaturday, June 24, 2023 at 7:30pmNational Sawdust (80 N 6th St, Brooklyn, NY)Craig Taborn with Lutos\u0142awski Quartet \u2013 \u201cLuminous Grid\u201d PremiereDon Davis \u2013 \u201cScreaming Into The Void\u201d PremiereComposed for the Lutos\u0142awski QuartetCraig Taborn Solo & Duo with Ksawery W\u00f3jci\u0144ski\nSunday, June 25, 2023 at 8pmBarb\u00e8s (376 9th St, Brooklyn, NY)Joanna Duda, Kirk Knuffke, Ksawery W\u00f3jci\u0144ski, Lesley MokMax Mucha, Micha\u0142 Bryndal, Kamil Piotrowicz, Maniucha Bikont\nSunday, June 25, 2023 at 1pmLiving Room Concert (TBA)Festival Artists, Local Artists\nMonday, June 26, 2023, 8pmSolar Myth (1131 S Broad St, Philadelphia, PA)Uri Caine Solo & with the Lutos\u0142awski Quartet\nTuesday, June 27, 2023 at 7:30pm and 9:30pmDizzy\u2019s Club, Jazz at Lincoln Center (10 Columbus Circle, New York, NY)Joanna Duda Trio\nWednesday, June 28, 2023 at 7:30pmDavid Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center (61 W 62nd St, New York, NY)Ksawery W\u00f3jci\u0144ski & Maniucha BikontMichael Bates\u2019 Acrobat + Lutos\u0142awski Quartet\u2014Metamorphosis Album Premiere\nFriday, June 30, 2023, 9:00pmCoastal Jazz & Blues Society (Revue Stage, 295 W 7th Ave 2nd floor VANCOUVER, BC)Joanna Duda + Ksawery W\u00f3jci\u0144ski + JP Carter + Dylan Van Der Schyff\nArtists\nCraig Taborn\u2019s \u201cLuminous Grid\u201d is the first part of a concert-length work in progress for string quartet and improvising pianist. The piece is inspired in part by the work of Agnes Martin, whose abstract work strikes a balance between what at first seems meditative, static and balanced lines and grids but upon closer examination reveals a secret dynamism and beautiful instability. The piece involves the interaction between the string quartet and piano in an unfolding sound tapestry that seeks to both cleave to and escape from the condition of balance.\nJoanna Duda, pianist, composer and improviser, creates experimental music with elements of jazz and contemporary classical. Her main projects are solo (KEEN, 2019) and the Joanna Duda Trio (FUMITSUKE, 2020), both of which involve the combining of electronic and acoustic sounds in an osmotic and organic way. The trio, with Max Mucha (double bass, fx) and Micha\u0142 Bryndal (drums, electronics), has performed in such prestigious venues as Ronnie Scott's in London, Le Periscope in Lyon, Opus Jazz Club in Budapest and jazz festivals in Vancouver, Edmonton, Bremen and Helsinki. Duda also composed the music for the Erotica 2022 Netflix series, and took part in the album UNCHAINED with compositions by Julius Eastman, which was nominated for the International Classical Music Awards.\nManiucha Bikont is a singer and anthropologist with field research experience in Poland, Ukraine, Belarus and Russia. She is a member of musical and theatrical ensembles dealing with traditional music, rituals, improvisation and unconventional vocal techniques. Her duo with Ksawery W\u00f3jci\u0144ski combines jazz improvisation with the dying songs of Ukrainian Polesia in an original way. In their compositions they evoke spring, harvest, weddings, love, grandfatherly songs, carols and lullabies, combining them into stories mapping the cycles of nature and human life. Together they weave tales that transcend the boundaries of time and musical genre, drawing on archival recordings from Polish villages in the area.\nMichael Bates, joining the Lutos\u0142awski Quartet with his group Acrobat (Marty Ehrlich, Fung Chern Hwei, Sara Schoenbeck and Michael Sarin), will premiere music from his new album Metamorphosis, a radically different interpretation of the revered Polish icon Witold Lutos\u0142awski. With literal themes or pieces composed in his spirit, Bates has created a powerful set of music that reveals a new way to think about pairing classical music and jazz. It features masterful re-orchestrations fueled by grooves found in both modern jazz and chamber ensembles. While Lutos\u0142awski is clearly being channelled, these nine fantastic voices will be on full display: beautiful, vicious, elegant and dissonant.\nKsawery W\u00f3jci\u0144ski is a versatile double bassist and composer with great sensitivity to sound. His interests range from early music to the most sophisticated improvised contemporary music. He has collaborated with Charles Gayle, Miko\u0142aj Trzaska, Satoko Fuji, Nicole Mitchell, Ken Vandermark, Mats Gustafsson and many more, and is the cofounder of such formations as the legendary Emergency and Hera. He is also known for his vocal experiments, which recall the spirit of such artists as Tom Waits and Frank Zappa.\nUri Caine, a Philadelphia native and GRAMMY nominee, recorded Space Kiss (2017) with the Lutos\u0142awski Quartet (816 Music), and has led his own ensembles performing arrangements of Mahler, Wagner, Mozart, Verdi, Schumann and Bach. Recent compositions include Agent Orange written for the Brussels Philharmonic and 4 Wunderhorn Songs written for the SWF Orchestra. Caine also composed The Passion of Octavius Catto for the Philadelphia Orchestra with a gospel choir celebrating the life of murdered Philadelphia civil rights leader Octavius Catto. Caine has also worked in groups led by Don Byron, Dave Douglas, John Zorn, Arto Lindsay, Sam Rivers and Barry Altschul, among many others.\nDon Davis, in addition to his prolific work in film scoring including The Matrix, has always maintained a busy concert career. His body of work includes the recently recorded Critical Mass for Orchestra, four string quartets, four trios for flute\/harp\/viola, works for one and two pianos, an oratorio, choral works, various chamber works, and a full-length three-act opera R\u00edo de Sangre. His work has been featured on recordings by the Arditti Quartet, the Debussy Trio, and the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. Davis looks forward to the premiere of his \u201cScreaming into the Void\u201d with the Lutos\u0142awski Quartet.\nAmir ElSaffar is a composer, trumpeter, santur player, and vocalist, a recipient of the Doris Duke Performing Artist Award and a 2018 US Artist Fellow. His is conversant in the language of contemporary jazz but has also created techniques to play microtones and ornaments idiomatic to Arabic music that are not typically heard on the trumpet. Additionally, he is a purveyor of the centuries-old, now endangered Iraqi maqam tradition, in which he performs actively as a vocalist and santur player. He has received commissions to compose for large and small jazz ensembles, traditional Middle Eastern ensembles, chamber orchestras, string quartets, and contemporary music ensembles, as well as dance troupes.\nThe Lutos\u0142awski Quartet performs contemporary music as well as recently commissioned pieces, and focuses on popularising 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.\nThe American edition of Jazztopad is an opportunity to discover the most important artists from the Polish contemporary jazz scene, a strongly recognizable brand in the world both in terms of quality of festivals and the craft of the artists.\nAbout the Festival\nJazztopad Festival, the leading event of its kind in Poland, has organised its 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. 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.\n\"I am extremely happy that for the 7th time we are able to present some of the most exciting and creative artists from Poland and the US. The program features several world premieres of pieces commissioned by or written for Jazztopad Festival. Triggering new collaborations, presenting new music and building a community have been the main features of our festival which started in Poland 20 years ago.\" Piotr Turkiewicz, Jazztopad Festival Artistic Director\nSince Piotr Turkiewicz 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. 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