Seifert Jazz Days 2025:
September 26 DEUX LYNX
September 26 at the Hevre Club, in Krakow's Kazimierz district, will play Deux Lynx - duo of drummer Miłosz Berdzik and guitarist/producer Adam Jędrysik. This is music of the future, lined with a hip-hop pulse and full of cinematic narrative. The beat poetry of improvisation with an organic nerve. It sounds like a soundtrack to a dream in which logic gives way to intuition.
September 27 ńoko
The Hevre stage will be taken over by ńoko - formation from Gdansk, which bursts the framework of the classical understanding of jazz. Their sound is darkness, trance, intensity. Psychedelic electronica meets the spirit of improvisation here. It's not a concert, it's a portal. Music that entwines, draws you in and leads you - somewhere between light and shadow.
September 28
Reijseger & Seifert - Synergy Spirit. On stage will be Ernst Reijseger - the brilliant Dutch cellist, known, among other things, for his extraordinary film soundtracks Werner Herzog. He will be accompanied by: Harmen Fraanje (piano), Polish Radio Choir and conductor Wolfgang Kläsener.
Zbigniew Seifert Foundation
The Zbigniew Seifert Foundation was established out of the need to nurture the memory of one of Poland's most outstanding jazz artists and the desire to inspire the next generation of artists. Its mission is not only to popularize the achievements of Zbigniew Seifert, but also to support the development of improvised music and artistic exploration at the intersection of various genres. The Foundation works at the intersection of culture, education and art - initiating projects, organizing events and promoting creativity that crosses borders and builds understanding between people.
Our key businesses:
International jazz competition aimed at artists playing improvised music on violin, viola and cello. It has been organized every two years since 2014. More than 200 musicians from 18 countries have entered the competition. It is the only such event in the world.
The festival is organized every two years, in alternate years to the Seifert Competition. The event presents premiere projects inspired by Seifert's music or showcases instrumentalists playing improvised music on stringed instruments.
An umbrella project presenting Polish musicians on the international jazz scene implemented from 2021. It is also a promotion of Zbigniew Seifert. Performers include Marcin Wasilewski and Joe Lovano, Leszek Możdżer, Adam Pierończyk and Maciej Obara.
Archive of jazz magazines like Jazz Forum or Jazz, programs of jazz festivals like Jazz Jamboree or Zlota Tarka. The archive has Jazz Forum available in three language versions: Polish, English, German. The archive contains more than 40,000 pages.
The archive contains information about the Polish jazz violin genius, including photos, sheet music, memorabilia from the archives of Agnieszka Seifert, his wife, and Malgorzata Seifert, his sister. The archive contains interesting facts about the artist's life, statements of various people about him.
The Foundation has released six CD albums including archival albums: Zbigniew Seifert's Solo Violin, and Live in Solothurn, a previously unpublished recording. It also published sheet music and a biographical book is the first book about a Polish jazzman published in Polish and English.
Foundation in numbers:
edition of the competition
editions of the festival
applications
foreign concerts
albums released
digitized pages
News:
"Zbyszek was for me a model of perseverance in pursuit of a set goal and a model of honesty in music. Whatever he played - it was always honest. His music was damn inspiring. For me, a percussionist, it was especially important the moment he started a solo, new forces ascended in me, as it were. He didn't explain much before the concert, but he played so evocatively that you had to follow him..."
Janusz Stefanski
Seifert Competition Winners:
Anais Drago 2024
Kacper Malisz 2022
Matthew Smoczynski 2016
Mario Forte 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEF0hHgp4NA&t=927s
