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Seifert Night @ Belgrade Jazz Festival
The Zbigniew Seifert Foundation was established in 2010 to, on the one hand, popularize the achievements of its patron, on the other hand, to support young artists playing improvised music on stringed instruments, and on the third hand, to promote Polish jazz abroad.
Until now, the most important event in the foundation's activities has been the Seifert Competition www.seifertcompetitiom.com. For years, in addition to the financial prizes awarded in the competition, we have been trying to support our laureates in their musical development whether by organizing concerts in Poland and abroad or releasing albums.
Last year we succeeded in the 1st edition of the Seifert Jazz Days festival. We are also inaugurating a large-scale project Seifert Night - the best of Polish Jazz. And Belgrade Jazz Festival is our first Partner on this path. We are proud that it is in Belgrade that such a significant presentation of the achievements of the Polish jazz scene will take place. And all this under the patronage and with Seifert's name at the forefront.
Dominik Wania
SEIFERT NIGHT, the best of Polish jazz: Dominik Wania, October 27, 2022, Belgrade Jazz Festival
Pianist Dominik Wania has joined an elite group of artists recording for ECM Records, and his signature "Lonely Shadows" is the first-ever solo album by a Polish musician released by this most prestigious jazz label in the world.
After critically acclaimed recordings for ECM with Maciej Obara's quartet ("Unloved," "Three Crowns"), Polish pianist Dominik Wania is releasing a solo album recorded in November 2019 in Lugano. Wania's musical sensitivity is the result of his classical education. On the album, he also makes himself known as a superb improviser with exceptional musical instincts, thoroughly focused on developing the details of the music inside the Auditorio Stelio Molo studio. Balancing the influences of both disciplines makes Dominik Wania one of the most distinctive pianists of his generation. "Lonely Shadows" is a testament to his creative originality, and an important addition to ECM's celebrated line of solo recordings .
Fans had to wait as long as seven years for the Polish pianist's second original album. That's how much time had passed since his famous debut - the album "Ravel" recorded in a trio, which was showered with awards, including two Fryderyk statuettes (in the Jazz Album of the Year and Jazz Debut of the Year categories) and the TVP Kultura "Gwarancje Kultury" award. And this time, Poland's leading jazz pianist has not abandoned the clear influence of classical composers such as Maurice Ravel, Sergei Prokofiev, Aleksandr Skriabin, and Erik Satie. Vanya's music is a bridge laid between the pure freedom of improvisation, derived from jazz music, and pianism steeped in European classical music. Like the new album, the artist's solo concerts are an invitation to discover a sound world built according to the "here and now" principle.
Dominik Wania began to gain recognition in the music market by playing alongside Tomasz Stanko. He received an invitation from the legendary jazzman right after graduating from the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. During his four-year collaboration with the trumpeter, in his band, Vanya met his next musical partner - saxophonist Maciej Obara, whose quartet he co-founded to this day. One of the most important Polish formations of recent years allowed the pianist to develop his talent and launch an international career. With Obara's band, he has visited the best jazz halls and festivals in the world, and recorded six albums, the last two of which are also in the ECM Records catalog. Vanya is multi-faceted, as in addition to performing and recording in numerous jazz constellations, he also devotes himself to teaching within the walls of the academies in Krakow and Katowice, and records film music in collaboration with Zbigniew Preisner.
