Mateusz Smoczynski Trio @ Belgrade Jazz Festival
2025-05-29
Johannes Dickbauer
2025-05-30
Seifert Night 2020
Smoczynski & Braun
Mateusz Smoczynski and Stephan Braun are among the world's best musicians who use unconventional techniques to play string instruments. Their unique way of playing the violin and cello is very characteristic for them and allows them to achieve one-of-a-kind sound, rhythm and groove. Both artists are recognized and taken improvisers who are involved in many unusual projects. Smoczynski / Braun have already recorded material for their first joint album inspired by music from the 1990s.
Mateusz Smoczynski - winner of the 2nd Zbigniew Seifert International Jazz Violin Competition. In the Jazz Top ranking of Jazz Forum magazine, he was named jazz violinist of the year 2017. He has worked with such artists as Branford Marsalis, Bobby McFerrin, Gil Goldstein, Richie Beirach, Glen Moore, Zbigniew Namysłowski, Tomasz Stanko, Urszula Dudziak, Vladislav Sendecki, Leszek Możdżer, Jerzy Maksymiuk, Natalia Kukulska, Anna Maria Jopek. He has recorded dozens of albums. Multiple scholarship recipient in the "Young Poland" program. He is the author of the violin concerto "Adam's Apple", which premiered in November 2018 at the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra. Together with Joachim Kühn, Bronislaw Suchanek, Janusz Stefanski and Bohdan Jarmołowicz, he participated in the world premiere of Zbigniew Seifert's jazz concerto.
Stephan Braun - graduated from the Universities of Music in Hamburg and Berlin in classical and jazz. He has performed many times with the NDR-Bigband, Schauspielhaus Hamburg and the Berliner Ensamble. He has collaborated with artists such as Melody Gardot, Nils Landgren, Gil Goldstein, Chris Hinze, Don Thomson, Till Broenner, Giora Feidman and Kristjan Randalu. In 2010 he and his Trio won first prize at the Bucharest International Jazz Competition. He has recorded dozens of albums, two of them as a leader (The Raid and Façon). He has had the opportunity to perform at the most important stages and music festivals in the world, including the Vienna Opera House, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Paris Olympia Theatre, Pori Jazz Festival, North Sea Jazz Festival, Umbria Jazz Festival and Montreal Jazz Festival. Since 2014, Stephan Braun has been teaching at the "Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien" in Hannover.
Seifert Night 2020 features five concerts presenting the winners of previous editions of the competition: first prize winners Bartosz Dworak (2014), Mateusz Smoczynski (2016) and Mario Forte (2018), as well as Johannes Dickbauer (second prize winner in 2020) and Kristijan Krajnčan (special prize winner).
The project was carried out as a public task co-financed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland within the framework of the competition "Public Diplomacy 2020 - a new dimension".
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