On the 12th of March 2022 at 7 p.m. in the Witold Lutosławski Concert Studio of the Polish Radio a meeting of two great individualities of the jazz scene and its classical borderland is going to take place.
Mateusz Smoczyński is a leading contemporary jazz violinist. This winner of several prestigious awards performed on major jazz stages and festivals worldwide and cooperated with the most eminent jazz musicians. Saxophonist Piotr Baron best known for his jazz achievements as the founder of Traveling Birds Quintet is leader of numerous bands performing in Poland and abroad.
Smoczyński wrote Adam’s Apple violin concerto, which premiered in November 2018 with the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra. This composition is definitely closer to contemporary classical music pieces than to jazz, although it does leave room for the performer to improvise. The title of the piece alludes to the author’s fascination with John Adams’ music, labelled as the American “maximalist minimalist”.
2PiX is another symphonic work by Mateusz Smoczyński – a double concerto for tenor saxophone and violin, which was written on the initiative of the saxophonist Piotr Baron, director of the Polish Sinfonia Iuventus Orchestra.
Marek Wroniszewski will be conducting the Orchestra at the concert.
Piotr Maculewicz
Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.
Co-financed by Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.