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Seifert Night @ Pancevo Jazz Festival
Maciej Obara Quartet
On November 4, 2023, the quartet of outstanding Polish saxophonist Maciej Obara will be the protagonist of the Pancevo Jazz Festival in Serbia.
As part of the next installment of the Seifert Night series, the band will perform:
Maciej Obara - saxophone,
Dominik Wania - piano,
Ingebrigt Håker Flaten - double bass,
Jon Fält - drums.
This will be the first concert of these musicians together, which they themselves are looking forward to
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On November 4, 2023, during Seifert Night @ Pancevo Jazz Festival in Serbia, the audience admired the Maciej Obara Quartet.
Maciej Obara is a saxophonist, composer and improviser. In 2012 he took part in the project "Take Five Europe", where he met excellent Norwegian musicians: double bassist Ole Morten Vagan and percussionist Gard Nilssen, which became the beginning of his international quartet, whose lineup was completed by pianist Dominik Wania.
Between 2012 and 2015, the band released three albums in the catalog of the Polish label ForTune ("Live at Manggha",
"Komeda", "Live in Minsk Mazowiecki"). In early 2017, Maciej Obara received an invitation from world-renowned producer Manfred Eicher to join the ranks of artists affiliated under the ECM Records label. His first album for the prestigious label was "Unloved," and the continuation of this unique collaboration was the 2019 recording "Three Crowns" and the latest from 2022 "Frozen Silence."
In October 2023, at the invitation of the Zbigniew Seifert Foundation, Obara reached for Seifert's compositions with his quartet. The premiere of this project took place during the Seifert Jazz Days in Krakow.
A selection of compositions from this latest endeavor, as well as pieces from the artist's latest album released on the renowned ECM Records label, will be heard at Serbia's Pancevo Jazz Festival.
The Zbigniew Seifert Foundation was established in 2010 to disseminate the achievements of its patron, to support young artists playing improvised music on stringed instruments, but also to promote Polish jazz abroad. Zbigniew Seifert is one of the most prominent figures in Polish jazz, as well as one of the most important figures in world jazz violin. An artist who, despite his short life (1946-1979), uncompromisingly pursued the realization and authentic presentation of his music.
Unfortunately, his output is not huge, we can only rejoice in the fact that the value of his legacy is timeless. The most important event implemented by the foundation so far has been the Seifert Competition(www.seifertcompetitiom.com), an international competition aimed at young artists playing jazz on stringed instruments.
- Since the first edition of the Seifert Competition, in addition to awarding financial prizes, we have been trying to support our winners in their musical development whether by organizing concerts in Poland and abroad or releasing albums. Seifert Night. The best of Polish Jazz is one of the foundation's most important activities abroad. Thanks to the support of the Adam Mickiewicz Institute,
and also the important participation of our foreign partners, within the framework of this very series we have already managed to organize concerts at, among others, the Belgrade Jazz Festival in Serbia, the Garana Jazz Festival in Romania, the X-Jazz Festival in Berlin, presenting such outstanding Polish artists as Marcin Wasilewski, EABS and Dominik Wania," emphasizes Aneta Norek-Skrycka, president of
of the Zbigniew Seifert Foundation.
