Programs

Colours of Harmony

You are cordially invited to attend concerts and vernissages organised by the Polish Jazz Association Wrocław in 2024 as part of the "Accessible Culture" programme. 
 
The programme was co-financed by funds from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage from the Fund for Promotion of Culture - a state earmarked fund - and from funds ZAW STOART. 

The project includes a series of cultural events of an educational, creative, arte-therapeutic and integrative nature, simultaneously making use of different types of art forms: music and visual arts, as well as various activating forms: workshops, concerts, vernissages, which will provide a unique opportunity to benefit from a diverse cultural offer to a wide audience during the course of a single task. Participation in the events is free of charge.

Project concept

The activities will include children and young people from the John Paul II Non-Public Special School and Educational Centre at the ZOL for Children in Jaszkotel and children from the Special School and Educational Centre No. 10 at Parkowa Street in Wrocław, as well as their families, carers and other inhabitants of Lower Silesia (people from different social groups, age groups, people with special needs). Children from the above-mentioned institutions will be addressed with a wide range of workshops based on a method synthesising various art forms: sound and visual.

The accompanying events - two concerts and vernissages - will be open to all, helping to break down barriers, providing access to valuable and diverse cultural resources for many listeners and viewers at the same time. They will present the work of contemporary artists working in a jazz-oriented style, as well as the work of Ewa Kutylak, a contemporary Lower Silesian visual artist whose work has been largely inspired by music.

Jazz and the visual arts, although different in form, share many common points of contact, which allows for interesting connections between them. Colours and sounds play an important role in their integration. Jazz compositions can often be compared to paintings, where individual sounds correspond to different colours. Both painters and jazz musicians use contrast, tonality and rhythm to create an impression of harmony. Jazz, usually based on improvisation, like the visual arts, gives artists the freedom to express themselves in unique ways.

As part of the project, one concert by Monika Wiśniowska-Basel & Jazz Family Band will be dedicated specifically to children from the centres, their families and carers - it will take place on 4 June 2024 in the auditorium of the Special School and Educational Centre No. 10 at ul. Parkowa 27 in Wrocław.

In the meantime, today we invite you to two concerts open to all, combined with vernissages of Ewa Kutylak and children taking part in workshops. Details of the events will appear in the News tab and on the https://www.facebook.com/PSJWroc

OKAZJONAL TRIO - 29.06.2024 g.18.00 - exhibition opening, 18.30 - concert; Agrotourism Horses and Clay, Nowina 5 k. Henryków

• Marzena Słowik - voice, percussion
• Jerzy "Wilk" Kaczmarek - foam
• Tomasz Wilczyński - double bass

MUNDINOVA - 17.10.2024, at 6 p.m. - exhibition opening, 7 p.m. - concert; Centrum na Przedmieście, 39A Prądzyńskiego St., Wrocław

• Dorota Kolodziej - voice
• Marzena Cybulka - bass guitar, double bass
• Michał Wilczyński - guitars
• Karol Gola - saxophones, flute
• Dariusz Kaliszuk - drums

Playing with Hope 2023

In 2023, the Play with Hope programme returns!

Let's come together and tune our ears. Three unique musical events for children and adults in a new intergenerational character. Music lovers, jazz sceptics, music ignoramuses - everyone will catch the bug here, after all, jazz, like summer, is all about good energy.

The Polish Jazz Association Wrocław invites you to 3 open concerts aimed at the general public, aimed at common integration and sensitisation to the therapeutic aspects of music. The concerts are part of the second edition of the GraMY with Hope programme, which aims to improve access to culture. It includes artistic and educational events, including workshops, concerts and art- and music-therapeutic activities aimed at children and young people.

The GraMY with Hope programme is also aimed at young people and children - wards of orphanages run by the Karkonoskie Stowarzyszenie Pomocy Dziecku i Rodzinie Nadzieja (Karkonosze Association for Helping Children and Families - Hope) in Jelenia Góra and the Karkonoskie County. The programme, which we have been running since 2022, includes a range of cultural, animation and therapeutic activities aimed at supporting children and young people in their emotional development and improving access to culture.

All are welcome to attend the 3 jazz music encounters:

ZBIGNIEW LEWANDOWSKI QUINTET | CKAiIL Czasoprzestrzeń - Klub Łącznik | 14.05, 18:00

On 14 May at Klub Łącznik | Czasoprzestrzeń - the heart of Wrocław's green and vibrant Big Island - we will hear the latest instalment of Zbigniew Lewandowski's quintet. The ensemble of Poland's leading percussionist and pedagogue, who is celebrating the jubilee of 50 years of artistic work, will première musical material. The leader will be accompanied by Robert Jarmużek, Tomasz Pruchnicki, Jakub Olejnik and the New York guitarist Kenny Carr.

KUBA STANKIEWICZ TRIO | Sala Koncertowa Akademii Muzycznej im. Karola Lipińskiego we Wrocławiu | 11.06.2023, 17:00

In June (date to be announced soon), the Kuba Stankiewicz Trio, one of Poland's leading jazz pianists, will perform at the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music Concert Hall in Wrocław. Kuba's music is distinguished by economy of expression, extraordinary sensitivity to colour and sound, and an individual approach to composition combined with a sense of dynamics and space.

REPERCUSSION - LIVINGROOM MUSIC | Klub Kwadrat, Jeleniogórskie Centrum Kultury | 14.09.2023, 12:00

On 14 September, the grande finale of musical events will be a unique concert in Jelenia Góra, a city whose cultural scene is increasingly intertwined with that of Wrocław. The REPERCUSSION ensemble, using percussion instrumentation, will introduce the audience and listeners to the fascinating current of instrumental theatre - consisting of visualisation and staged play. Everyday objects, elements of acting and happenings will be used. The members of the ensemble are percussion graduates of the Academy of Music in Wrocław, who are actively involved in the music market as performers and pedagogues conducting extensive educational activities addressed to children and young people.
Admission to all events is free and open to the general public. For more up-to-date information, please visit our Facebook: www.fb.pl/PSJWroc

Read more about the Play with Hope project:

The planned activities, which have an engaging and integrative character, enable the development of passions and interests, sensitise and support the process of personal empowerment and preparation for independent life. They offer the opportunity to have contact with music both in the form of micro-concerts and trips, which for some charges is the first ever contact with music in a theatre and concert space. Communing with music, especially live music, is an important element for the all-round mental and intellectual development of a child.

The effect of the programme is to improve the quality of life of the wards of children's homes, to increase access to cultural events for a group of children and young people and to reduce the negative cultural and therapeutic effects of living in care centres.
The effect will be an improvement in the quality of life of the wards of orphanages, familiarisation of the children with Polish cultural goods, which in this form are inaccessible to the excluded and those from smaller towns. Participation in concerts and workshops will sensitise and support the process of empowerment of the charges and prepare them to enter independent life, reduce stress, improve mental health and general emotional state and mental balance achieved through the proposed music therapy activities.
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The project was co-financed by funds from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage from the Fund for the Promotion of Culture - a state earmarked fund, the Municipality of Wrocław (www.wroclaw.pl) and the Association of Performing Artists STOART.

Organiser: Polish Jazz Association Wrocław

PartnersThe K. Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław, Jelenia Góra Cultural Centre, Dolina Pałaców i Ogrodów Foundation, Przedsiębiorstwo Wodociągów i Kanalizacji WODNIK Sp. z o.o. in Jelenia Góra, NADZIEJA Karkonosze Association for Assistance to Children and Families, Czasoprzestrzeń, Klub Łącznik

Media patronage: JazzPress, JazzForum, Wrocław.pl

Music connects us Hudba Nas Spojuje

 

The 'Connecting us through music' project aims to develop musical talent, creativity and teamwork skills.
After the intensive workshop, the young musicians will perform with the lecturers.

The programme includes jazz standards including Summertime, So what, Bye bye blackbird, Watermelon man.

The team formed from the class leaders will play as follows: Paulina Golębiowska, Ivan Nemecek, Robert Jarmużek, Bartosz Pernal, Mateusz Maniak and Jakub Olejnik.

Come along to the concerts!

Ornamental Farm Bukowiec, 27.08.2021, 18:00

Přerov, Hradby u Neptuna, 28.08.2021, 19:00

Mothers Follow Chairs, 21:00

Playing with Hope 2022

The programme GraMY with Hope is aimed at young people and children - wards of children's homes run by the Karkonosze Association for Helping Children and Families Nadzieja in Jelenia Góra and the Karkonosze district. The programme includes a range of cultural, animation and therapeutic activities aimed at supporting children and young people in their emotional development and improving their access to culture.

The programme includes

• 3 micro-concerts organised in facilities in Jelenia Góra and the Karkonosze District
• 2 away concerts - at the Jelenia Góra Cultural Centre and the Centre for Academic Culture and Local Initiatives in Wrocław.
• Excursions and visits to the Zdrojowy Theatre of Animation in Jelenia Góra and the Czasoprzestrzeń Academic Cultural Centre, on. The site of a revitalised, historic tram depot in Wrocław. Including interesting nooks and crannies, e.g. the cellars which served as air-raid shelters, listen to the history of the monument and visit current exhibitions.
• A series of music workshops with elements of music therapy
• Workshops implemented by the Programme Partner , which will introduce children to traditional handicraft methods. There will be a choice of activities in a photographic darkroom, a screen-printing workshop, a carpentry workshop and a furniture conservation workshop. At each of these locations, children will have the opportunity to learn about the nature of the artist's work and try their hand at making their own work.

The planned activities, which have an engaging and integrative character, enable the development of passions and interests, sensitise and support the process of personal empowerment and preparation for independent life. They offer the opportunity to experience music both in the form of micro-concerts and trips, which for some charges is the first opportunity in their lives to have contact with music in a theatre and concert space.

Exposure to music, especially live music, is an important element in the all-round psychological and intellectual development of a child. The effect of the programme is to improve the quality of life of the wards of children's homes, to increase access to cultural events for a group of children and young people and to reduce the negative cultural and therapeutic effects of living in care centres.

The effect will be an improvement in the quality of life of the wards of orphanages, familiarisation of the children with Polish cultural goods, which in this form are inaccessible to the excluded and those from smaller towns. Participation in concerts and workshops will sensitise and support the process of empowerment of the charges and prepare them to enter independent life, reduce stress, improve mental health and general emotional state and mental balance achieved through the proposed music therapy activities.

Subsidised by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage within the framework of the Accessible Culture Programme.

Organisers:

• Polish Jazz Association Wrocław
• Liaison Club
• Centre for Academic Culture and Local Initiatives CZASOPRZESTRZEŃ in Wrocław
• Paweł Lisiecki Quartet
• Karkonosze Association for Helping Children and Families HOPE
• Jelenia Góra Cultural Centre
• Zdrojowy Teatr Animacji

Patronage:

• SW Machines Poland
• MKiDN
• National Centre for Culture
• Municipality of Wroclaw
• Marshal's Office of the Lower Silesian Voivodship
• Giant Mountains Regional Development Agency
• ZAIKS
• Z.A.W. STOART
• WEPA Piechowice Sp. z o.o.

Media patrons:

• JazzForum
• JazzPress
• TVP3
• wroclaw.pl

Pawel Lisiecki Quartet "Bound to Happen"

New album released by the Polish Jazz Association Wrocław.

The quartet of guitarist and composer Paweł Lisiecki is a representation of the young generation of musicians associated with the Wrocław jazz community. Apart from the leader, the band consists of Łukasz Zgoda - saxophones, electronics, Rafał Krzywosz playing the bass guitar and Marcin Urszulak - percussionist.

The band's music is inspired by the young wave of jazz artists in minimalist forms with elements of nu-jazz. When asked about their inspirations, the musicians cite artists such as Gilad Hekselman, Christian Scott, GoGo Penguin and Jonathan Kreisberg.

The quartet's music sounds fresh and modern, presenting a wide range of sounds, from minimalist and spacey to dynamic. The compositions, often based on irregular meters, are arranged with attention to the smallest details. The guitar and saxophone correspond superbly both in the melodic and sometimes extended themes, as well as in the improvisations, in which the soloists move with great freedom to create an interesting, coherent sound, while the whole is complemented by the energetic and modern playing of the rhythm section. The classic sound of the guitar quartet is complemented by delicate, ambient textures that add atmosphere and space to the compositions.
The release of the album "Bound To Happen" was supported by funds from the Municipality of Wroclaw www.wroclaw.pl.

Twardogóra Intergenerational Jazz Orchestra / Final Concert

We would like to invite you to the final concert after the workshops of the Twardogóra 2022 Intergenerational Jazz Orchestra, which will take place at the playground in Działkowa Street on 16 July at 5 p.m. Workshop participants and lecturers from the Department of Jazz Music at the Academy of Music in Wrocław will perform: Dominik Gawroński and Łukasz Perek.

Funded by the Marshal's Office of the Lower Silesian Voivodship.

The event is held under the patronage of the Deputy Marshal of the Lower Silesian Voivodship, Marcin Krzyżanowski.

Twardogóra Intergenerational Jazz Orchestra / Concert

We would like to invite you to the final concert after the workshops of the Intergenerational Jazz Orchestra Jelenia Góra 2022, which will take place at the Town Hall Square in Jelenia Góra on 2 July 2022.
Workshop participants and lecturers from the Department of Jazz Music at the Academy of Music in Wrocław will perform: Jakub Olejnik, Bartosz Pernal, Tomasz Pruchnicki.

Funded by the Marshal's Office of the Lower Silesian Voivodship.

The event is held under the patronage of the Deputy Marshal of the Lower Silesian Voivodship, Marcin Krzyżanowski.

Intergenerational Jazz Orchestra Twardogóra 2022 / Workshop

Young people and seniors are invited to take part in the Summer Music Workshop.

The workshop is aimed at instrumentalists (trumpet, violin, clarinet, saxophone, tuba, flute, guitar, keyboards, bass, accordion, percussion) regardless of level. The aim is to develop musical talent and creative teamwork.

The workshop will include jazz orchestra rehearsals where you will work together on repertoire and learn about a range of jazz and ensemble playing issues such as swing, feeling, articulation, tone work and improvisation.

Our staff are experienced musicians, graduates of jazz studies at the Academy of Music in Wrocław. Dr Dominik Gawroński and Łukasz Perek. The workshop will take place from 12 to 15 July.
Classes will be held at the Municipal Sports and Leisure Centre in Twardogóra, ul. Wrocławska 39, 56-416 Twardogóra.

Form: https://forms.gle/nFRHPu7Fc22h5TvR9

The finale of the workshop will be a concert by the Intergenerational Jazz Orchestra, which will take place on 16 July 2022.

Funded by the Marshal's Office of the Lower Silesian Voivodship.

Organiser: Polish Jazz Association Wrocław

Co-organisersMunicipal Sports and Leisure Centre Twardogóra and Twardogóra Municipality

Partner: @Foundation Jazz on the Oder

The event is held under the patronage of the Deputy Marshal of the Lower Silesian Voivodship, Marcin Krzyżanowski.
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Łukasz Perek - pianist, trombonist, arranger, and graduate of the Academy of Music in Wrocław. He divides his activity between jazz and theatre music. In 2003-2009 he led Big-Band Oława, and since 2011 Big-Band Jelcz-Laskowice, for which he arranges both jazz and pop music. In 2008 he was the musical director of the competition part of the French Song Festival "Chantons á Wrocław".

In 1999-2003, with the O.K.E.J. quintet and other bands, he played at jazz festivals such as "Jazz nad Odrą" (honorable mention), "Bielska Zadymka Jazzowa", "Jazz Juniors" (twice - third and second place), "Regensburg Jazz Festival", "Trotzberg Jazz Days h. He has given concerts in Dusseldorf, Cologne, Amsterdam and Paris. He regularly collaborates with the Wrocław actor and singer Mariusz Kiljan and jazz musicians, including saxophonists Tomasz Pruchnicki and Sławomir Dudar. Since 2002, he has been part of the quartet of jazz vocalist Kasia Stankowska, with whom he recorded an album of Władysław Szpilman's music in 2012.

Dr Dominik Gawronski - trumpeter, composer, arranger, band leader and session musician, born on 29 December 1990 in Radom. Graduate of the Oskar Kolberg Music School Complex in Radom in Małgorzata Dzikowska's class, the Fryderyk Chopin State Music School in Warsaw in the Jazz Department in Robert Majewski's class, and the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław in the Jazz Department in the class of Professor Piotr Wojtasik.

Since 2016, he has been a lecturer at the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław at the Department of Jazz. In 2020, he obtained his Doctor of Arts degree by defending his dissertation entitled: Cultural diversity as a factor shaping the contemporary face of European jazz based on the works of selected trumpeters.

Main achievements:

• Special Prize at the Jazz nad Odra Festival (2020)
• Jazz Phonographic Debut Award with the Damian Hyra Quartet (2020)
• Individual Prize at Krokus Jazz Festival (2020)
• International Fellowship of the Jenuesses Musicales Jazz World Orchestra (2013)
• Distinction at the Traditional Jazz Festival Old Jazz Meeting Złota Tarka in Iława with the Adam Bławicki Septet (2015)
• Individual Prize at the Krokus Jazz Festival (2012)
• First Prize with the Swinging Birds ensemble and Individual Prize for the Instrumentalist at the VI European Music Integrations in Żyrardów (2010)
• 1st place at the 6th Wind Instruments' Meeting in Warsaw (2005)
• He has participated in many jazz and non-jazz music projects, including: the Big Band Akwarium, the Big Band of the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw under the direction of Ryszard Borowski, the orchestra Perfect Girls & Friends under the direction of Wojciech Zieliński. He is a member of the Polish-German Jazz Orchestra under Bernhard Mergner, and has also been a lecturer in the orchestra since 2018. He collaborates with the Wind Machine orchestras under Bernhard Mergner and the Silesian Jazz Orchestra under Siegmund Lindner. He is the co-creator of the projects: Gawronski / Lechki Consolidation Collective, Gawronski / Zarecki New Orleans Ensemble, Dominik Gawronski Quintet, Joao de Sousa & Fado Polaco, Paśko and the CO TO band and many others.
• Since 2017, he has been a lecturer at the Summer Big Band Workshop in Nysa.
• He has participated in the recording of record albums such as. Olga Boczar - Music Essence Little Inspirations, Joao de Sousa - Luta, Michał Sołtan - Mallada, Krzysztof Zęsławski Quartet - Osiecka jazzily, Aleksandra Jastrzębska - Ola Jas, Bartosz Pernal Sextet - Into the Wild, Kasia Kowalska MTV Unplugged, Aleksandra Jastrzębska - Jasna, Joao de Sousa - Ideal, Damian Hyra Qartet - From afar.