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Jazz Composer
Mateusz Smoczynski the outstanding Polish jazz violinist received a statuette in the Jazz Composer of the Year category.
Mateusz Smoczynski - jazz violinist, composer, graduate of the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw in the class of Professor Andrzej Gębski. Since 2017, he has been leading the jazz violin and world music class at the academy. Winner of the 2nd Zbigniew Seifert International Jazz Violin Competition.
Repeatedly recognized as Jazz Violinist of the Year in Jazz Forum magazine's Jazz Top ranking. He has performed on the world's most important stages, collaborating with artists such as Branford Marsalis, Rabih Abou-Khalil, Markus Stockhausen, Tomasz Stanko, Zbigniew Namysłowski, Urszula Dudziak, Richie Beirach and Glen Moore. He has recorded more than a hundred albums. He is the author of five violin concertos, including: "Adam's Apple" (released in 2024 by Warner), the concerto for violin, saxophone and orchestra "2PiX," performed with Branford Marsalis, and the concerto for violin, piano and orchestra "Fallen Angel," commissioned by Janusz Olejniczak. As a soloist, he has performed with the most important Polish orchestras.

In 2020 the album "Speaking Sound" was released, recorded in duo with Joachim Kühn for the German ACT Music label (one of the most important albums of the year according to Downbeat magazine). Mateusz Smoczynski forms a duo with one of the world's greatest cellists, Stephan Braun, and is the leader of a quintet, a member of the New Trio and co-founder of the Atom String Quartet. The ASQ has received four Fryderyks (two each in the classical and jazz categories) during its 10 years of activity. Between 2012 and 2016 Mateusz Smoczynski was the first violinist in the American Turtle Island Quartet (winners of two Grammy awards). In 2013, the quartet took a guest part in the recording of the album "After Blue" by singer Tierney Sutton. This album was nominated for a Grammy award. A year later, the band's self-titled album, "Confetti Man," premiered and was named the best American chamber recording of the year by the National Federation of Music Clubs.
On Sunday, March 23, 2025, the first-ever Fryderyk Festival 2025 Jazz Music Gala took place. During the evening at Warsaw’s POLIN Museum, we recognized the winners of Poland’s most important phonographic awards in five jazz categories:
Phonographic Debut of the Year – Jazz
Szymon Zawodny
Album of the Year Experimental Jazz / Contemporary Improvised Music
COORDINATES, Marcel Balinski “Co-voices”
Jazz Composer / Jazz Composer of the Year
Matthew Smoczynski
Jazz Artist / Jazz Female Artist of the Year
Tomasz Dąbrowski
Jazz Album of the Year
Tomasz Dąbrowski & The Individual Beings “Better”
The Golden Fryderyk – an honorary lifetime achievement award presented to artists who have made special contributions to the development of Polish musical culture – was awarded to the Walk Away band.