Enter Enea Festival / 7–10.06.2020

Artists

2019

• DAGADANA
  

  DAGADANA

  Daga Gregorowicz – vocal, electronics
  Dana Vynnytska – vocal, keyboard instruments
  Mikołaj Pospieszalski – double bass, bass, violin
  Bartosz Mikołaj Nazaruk – drums

  Tomasz Dworakowski – trombone, bass trombone
  Cyprian Baszyński – trumpet, flugelhorn
  Dawid Główczewski – alto saxophone, soprano saxophone
  Przemysław Florczak – bass clarinet, flute, tenor saxophone

  Guest performance:
  Leszek Możdżer – piano
  Kacper Smoliński – harmonica

  DAGADANA has blended elements of Ukrainian and Polish culture with jazz, electronics and world music for over a 10 years. During the Enter Enea Festival artists meet on the one stage with Leszek Możdżer, wind section and harmonica player, Kacper Smoliński. The journey to different regions of Poland, Ukraine and far China also are waiting for us. That’s where album „Meridian 68” was created. Artists were looking for inspiration in different sources: from their relatives, during the workshop of the ethnic music, in the books.

  DAGADANA will also announce the fifth, long-cherished album of the band.

  This band has been an ambasador of the Slavic culture for many years. They played in 24 countries. This year the band represent Poland in Glastonbury, the biggest festival in Europe.

• Song of the Goat Theatre
  

  Song of the Goat Theatre

  Wrocław’s alternative theatre formed in 1996 by Grzegorz Brala and Anna Zubrzycka. This theatre succeeded in international, among others, on the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh, where in 2004 and 2012 has received a prestigious award, Fringe Fest. Song of the Goat Theatre got an international recognition as one of the most innovative European bands, which are using acting training in their practise. They’re also looking for a new artistic solution constantly. Both physical, vocal training and rehearsals, performances are treating as a part of the process. Involvement in a process of creation of a permanent relations between people is a starting point to each new kind of training, which integrates movement, song and text.

• Taksim Trio
  

  Taksim Trio

  Hüsnü Şenlendirici - clarinet
  Ismail Tunçbilek - baglama
  Aytaç Doğan - qanun

  The masters of the melody, improvisation and mood. Their particular signs are perfect connection of three instruments and three musical personalities. Hüsnü Şenlendirici, Ismail Tunçbilek i Aytaç Doğan are masters of their instruments and one of the most popular Turkish musicians nowadays. All of them have known each other for years. They were members of different popular bands, but in 2007 they decided to connect their talents as a trio. The album "Taksim Trio” released in the same year succeeded in Turkey, also opened a door to the global market of world music. The public were delighted by the infiltrating a diverse impact in their music: from jazz and Middle Eastern, gypsy music through Ottoman classic to Turkish popular arabesque and pop. Most of all, Taksim Trio impresses both perfection in playing together and individual artistry of each of the musicians.

• Jojo Mayer & NERVE
  

  Jojo Mayer & NERVE

  Jojo Mayer – drums
  John Davis – bass
  Jacob Bergson – keyboard instruments
  Aaron Nevezie – arrangement of sounds

  Jojo Mayer is a Swiss record producer, musician, composer, instrumentalist and master of percussion instruments. Nerve formed in 90’s from the project of artist named Prohibited Beats. The group of DJs, artists and musicians, which originally was famous for experimental interaction with audience, with time build up their individual style in electronic music and bring live performances to perfection. They were inspired by a wide spectrum of electronic music, through jungle, dub step, glitch to minimal & tech house. The group bring the public into contact with improvised music and catchy jazz rhythms bring away in digital era. They also don’t forget about rock’n’roll energy and good fun. NERVE redefines a relation of human creativity and digital technology creating a unique form of expression in today’s world.

• Chris Jarrett
  

  Chris Jarrett

  The son of a Slavic family, was born in 1956 in Allentown and grew up in the woods of the Appalachians. He began to play the piano at the age of 13. After finishing high school he studied the piano and music history at the Oberlin Conversatory in Ohio. He’s one of the most prized jazz masters of the piano and church organs in the world. Music of Chris Jarrett ignores any dictates of style. Chris Jarrett utilizes the structures of classical music and the freedom of jazz improvisation. He combines the love for forms of development with jazz energy. Great influences to be heard in his music come from Johannes Ockeghem, Sergej Prokofiev, Charles Mingus and Frank Zappa are connecting with his authorial performance in true kaleidoscope. During the Enter Enea Festival he appears with Leszek Możdżer as a duo.

• Kočani Orkestar
  

  Kočani Orkestar

  A gypsy brass band from the city of Kočani in the Republic of Macedonia. Founded by trumpet player Naat Veliov. Kočani Orkestar is a icon of Balkan style in music, which refers to the gypsy origins, Turkish rhythms and Latin sounds. Energy and charisma of the group is well-known to Polish audience.

• Billy Cobham & Leszek Możdżer with the band
  

  Billy Cobham & Leszek Możdżer with the band

  Billy Cobham is a percussive machine, unexcelled, charismatic leader, who are filling imagination of the drumers around the world from decades. Especially these ones, who are playing hi-hat on their right hand. Billy as the first one came to the conclusion that playing hi-hat on the left hand had made hands free and opened himself a possibilities of play unavailable for other drummers. This practise is easy, but it forces to changing the thinking about drums. Thousands of drummers are playing with hands crossed and Billy as a one of them (and still one of the few) is playing with a yawning chest, in which beats his big, percussive heart. His heart can be heard in every beat and melody, which he wrote. A few of them, for example Stratus and Red Baron walk into the music dictionary and were performed by musicians on the local jam sessions.

• Susan Weinert / Martin Weinert / Leszek Możdżer / Cezary Konrad
  

  Susan Weinert / Martin Weinert / Leszek Możdżer / Cezary Konrad

  Susan Weinert – guitar
  Martin Weinert – bass
  Cezary Konrad – drums
  Leszek Możdżer – piano

  Guitarist and composer, Susan Weinert achives something, what a few musicians can do. She created her own style and sound and she is called one of the masters of jazz fusion. She achieved success due to big passion and joy of the communing with music. Susan has been an integral part of the jazz stage from over 35 years and she played over 3000 performances in the world. She is sharing a stage with her husband and bass player, Martin Weinert. He has accompanied her from the beginning of her career.

  Cezary Konrad is a drummer and composer. He was thought the best Polish drummer from 1992 by readers of Jazz Forum in Jazz Top ranking. He recorded the first album "Meeting in Cracow" with his co-author, Susan Weinert in 1996.

2018

• Echo Serca
  

  Echo Serca

  Miłosz Pękala - marimba, percussion items
  Bartosz Weber - percussion
  Wiktor Podgórski - visuals
  guest performance - Leszek Możdżer

  Let us embark on a trip to the roots of music - the human body, including the sounds of the heart and heart rate and frequencies that affect human emotions. Our guides on this journey of sound will be Miłosz Pękala, Bartosz Weber and Wiktor Podgórski, the author of the visuals shown during the concert. It will be a journey through various states of emotions and consciousness, inspired by contemporary music, minimalism, but also music, culture and medicine of the East. Leszek Możdżer will be the special guest of the concert.

• Tomasz Chyła Quintet
  

  Tomasz Chyła Quintet

  Tomasz Chyła - violin
  Piotr Chęcki - sax
  Szymon Burnos - piano, electronics
  Krzysztof Słomkowski - double bass
  Sławek Koryzno - percussion

  Tomasz Chyła Quintet is a Tricity-based ensemble who perform jazz since 2013. A laureate of the Grand Prix of the International Jazz Juniors 2016 Festival. The leader of the group is the violinist Tomasz Chyła. He is also responsible for most of the compositions and arrangements. The musicians from Tomasz Chyła Quintet redefine the concept of mainstream jazz, lending it a noble, very honest and often romantic character. Contemporary pieces based on the immortal jazz formula, air-like performance and freshness of interpretation are the hallmarks of this unconventional quintet.

• First Strings on Mars
  

  First Strings on Mars

  Georg Breinschmid - double bass
  Igmar Jenner - violin
  Florian Willeitner - violin

  By the admission of this classic group of Viennese musicians Florian Willeitner, Igmar Jenner and Georg Breinschmid, who is known to the Poznań audience, the First Strings On Mars is a return to the planet Earth after a 200-year space tour with 18th century hits. The musicians, demonstrating premium skills, take pleasure in the realization of dreams and fantasies as well as in the freedom of performing their own compositions.

• The Psalms of David 
  

  The Psalms of David 

  Leszek Możdżer - compositions, piano
  Lars Danielsson - double bass
  Sławomir Koryzno - percussion
  Magnus Öström - percussion
  Adam Pierończyk - saxophone
  Poznań Boys’ Choir, director Jacek Sykulski

  The Psalms of David are six compositions by Leszek Możdżer based on biblical texts translated by Czesław Miłosz. They are a rare example of a combination of sacred choral music with a lively, improvising jazz quintet. The composition of the quintet is unusual, because it contains two drum sets, which create a rich rhythmic layer and place the music within a throbbing pulse and give it an exceptionally modern sound. The choir parts in which the solemn texts of the Psalms are rendered in a contemporary form, draw on classical music and emphasize in a special way Czesław Miłosz's translation, which in a masterful way uses the Polish language to prove that, contrary to popular opinions, our mother tongue is exceptionally mellifluous.

  The performers will include e.g. Lars Danielsson, Adam Pierończyk, Sławomir Koryzno, and percussion player Magnus Öström, known from the legendary line-up of E.S.T. The psalms will be sung by the Poznań Boys’ Choir conducted by Jacek Sykulski.

• Alexey Arkhipovsky
  

  Alexey Arkhipovsky

  Alexey Arkhipovsky is a Russian balalaika virtuoso. He opens up completely new spaces for this instrument. With an unprecedented sense of timbre and masterful flageolet technique, he is able to bring out an astonishing palette of sounds and effects. In his hands, the balalaika turns out to be a modern and surprisingly flexible instrument. Playing on only three strings of this simple folk instrument, he is able to delight an audience of many thousand listeners.

• Maciej Obara Quartet
  

  Maciej Obara Quartet

  Gard Nilssen - percussion
  Maciej Obara - saxophone
  Ole Morten Vagan - double bass
  Dominik Wania - piano

  Maciej Obara Quartet are young and active representatives of the European music scene, and jazz is only one of the avenues the band pursues. If we assume that musical genres are languages, then we can safely say that Maciej Obara Quartet speaks a few of them, mainly drawing on classical and improvised music.

  The quartet, established in 2012, is a leading player in the European jazz scene, and each of its members has a unique sound resulting from a variety of musical experiences. Obara has invited strong and mature artists to join the band; together they create complete, conscious and above all beautiful music.

  After 5 years of activity, the quartet received an invitation from Manfred Eicher and entered the Rainbow Studio in Oslo to record pieces for a new album for ECM, the most prestigious recording company in the world. In September 2017, the Munich-based publishing house released the album Unloved, for which all compositions, except the eponymous one by Krzysztof Komeda, were written by Maciej Obara.

• Symphosphere | Tia Fuller / Leszek Możdżer
  

  Symphosphere | Tia Fuller / Leszek Możdżer

  Tia Fuller - saxophone, compositions
  Leszek Możdżer - piano, compositions, arrangements
  Lars Danielsson - double bass
  Bodek Janke - percussion
  Vojto Monteur - electronics
  and Collegium F Orchestra conducted by Maciej Sompoliński

  An attempt to bridge such distant musical worlds. Electronics, orchestra music, improvisation, and sounds from the peripheries of techno music will provide the backdrop for the impromptu performance by the US sax player Tia Fuller, Leszek Możdżer and Lars Danielsson. The artists will combine seemingly divergent styles to come up with a kaleidoscopic sound construction. The orchestra will be conducted by Maciej Sompoliński. This project by Leszek Możdżer, who has been consistently trying to combine different styles and genres for years, is by far the most advanced and extensive project to date. It combines elements of techno, electronic, classical, film and jazz music; the participation of an outstanding frontwoman (Tia Fuller has worked e.g. with Beyonce) makes it an attractive show of premium artistic quality.

2017

• Kwadrofonik
  

  Kwadrofonik

  Kwadrofonik was founded in 2006 as a result of a combination of two duos, a percussion and a piano one: Magdalena Kordylasińska and Miłosz Pękala (Hob-Beats Duo) and Emilia Sitarz and Bartłomiej Wąsik (Lutosławski Piano Duo). Together they perform music of the 20th and 21st centuries, transcriptions of symphonic works and their own compositions inspired by traditional, contemporary and popular music.

  The band's career began in 2006 with a spectacular victory at the 9th "New Tradition" Folk Music Festival, where the musicians received the Grand Prix, the Audience Award and the Mayor of Warsaw Award. It was then that music critics recognized the ensemble as innovative, setting new trends in folk music. In 2007, Kwadrofonik won the prestigious Special Award of the 3rd European Radio Union (EBU) "Svetozar Stracina" Competition in Bratislava. The award for modernity, innovation and faithfulness to tradition was granted for the first time in the history of this competition. In 2008, the band's debut album, Folklove, was released by the Polish Radio and enthusiastically received by critics. In 2009, the musicians received the Folk Phonogram - a critics' award for the best album of folk music. That very year, the group' compositions were presented in the "Late Junction" programme of BBC3 Radio.

  In 2010, during the celebrations of the 200th birthday of Frédéric Chopin, the musicians performed in the renowned Carnegie Hall in New York and in the Chicago Symphony Hall, presenting their project "I Have Been Here. Frédéric"; it combined folk music with Chopin's compositions.

  In 2011, they made their debut at the Berlin Philharmonic, presenting, among others, their own version of Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring for two pianos and percussion. The same quartet was hosted at Izumi Hall (Osaka) in Japan and at contemporary music festivals in Moscow and Beijing.

  In 2013, Kwadrofonik collaborated with cellist Andrzej Bauer and composer Cezary Duchnowski on a chamber version with electronics of the Cello Concerto by Witold Lutosławski. The same year they began cooperation with the jazz singer Dorota Miśkiewicz; SONY Polska released their joint album containing original arrangements of Witold Lutosławski's children's songs to lyrics by Julian Tuwim: Lutosławski, Tuwim - Songs not Only for Children. In 2014, the album became the Golden Record.

  In November 2014 - in connection with the Kolberg celebrations - Kwadrofonik together with the singer Adam Strug prepared The Folk Requiem, a composition inspired by Polish traditional funeral music. The relevant record was released in March 2015 by Polish Radio and the National Audiovisual Institute. It received the title of the Folk Phonogram of the Year and was nominated to the Coryphaeus of Polish Music Award granted by the Institute of Music and Dance in the Event category.

  2015 saw the first edition of Kwadrofonik Festival, the ensemble's original project dedicated to contemporary chamber music. The year also brought Kwadrofonik the prestigious Polityka's Passport award, granted to the most prominent young creators of Polish culture. that year the ensemble started working on music for a multimedia show commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Poznań Riots of June 1956, directed by Jan Komasa. The show entitled Xenophonia premiered during the Malta 2016 Theatre Festival.

  The group’s most recent, multimedia and “inter-generic” project is The Industrial Symphony: a concert of music composed by Angelo Badalamenti, where Kwadrofonik is accompanied by Artur Rojek. The artists, performing Badalamenti to a visionary film footage by David Lynch, transposed it into their characteristic instruments: piano, vibraphone, percussion instruments, and synthesizers.

  Apart from projects based on original compositions or transcriptions (including transcriptions of symphonic works such as Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring or Karol Szymanowski's Mazurkas and Harnasie), the musicians also perform compositions originally created for their instruments. These include e.g. works by Bela Bartók, Georg Crumb, Rolf Wallin, and pieces composed specifically for the ensemble by Polish composers such as Wojciech Ziemowit Zych, Wojtek Blecharz, Sławomir Wojciechowski, and Maciej Jabłoński.

  In their compositions and interpretations, the Kwadrofonik musicians enter into a unique dialogue, imperceptibly changing the functions of instruments: the pianos become percussion instruments, while the latter take over the role of melody instruments. They are also known for their use of everyday objects during concerts. Such items reveal their far from obvious auditory qualities (pails with water, cell phones, balloons…). Precision of execution, spontaneity, an inspiring approach to musical material and the gift of establishing direct contact with the audience guarantee full satisfaction of the participants with the sound spectacle created by the group. While working on their own compositions, musicians often follow the path of improvisation, experimentation and pursuits in the area of sound in order to make the most of their instruments.

  STEVE REICH: MUSIC FOR 18 MUSICIANS

  Clarinets: Krystyna Sakowska, Adrian Janda
  Violin: Dagna Sadkowska
  Cello: Michał Pepol
  Vocals: Iwona Kmiecik, Anna Gadt, Joanna Lalek, Danuta Zbirowska
  Grand pianos: Emilia Sitarz, Joanna Opalińska, Bartek Wąsik, Bartek Zajkowski
  Percussion instruments: Magdalena Kordylasińska-Pękala, Miłosz Pękala, Hubert Zemler, Paweł Nowicki, Piotr Sołkowicz, Radosław Mysłek

  The flourishing of new artistic currents and ideas in the 1960s continues to inspire the creators of modern art. Ironically enough, however, the then protest against and negation of - mainly European - tradition, has by now become classical. Minimalism is a case in point, and 1964 may be seen as the breakthrough year for minimal art. Terry Riley creates his opus magnum – In C; it is seen as the first purely minimalist composition due to the unprecedented pulsation and repetition of the sound motifs. Through his work he distances himself from the art of his friend, the precursor of minimalism La Monte Young and his steady drones, played with no specific rhythm.

  Steve Reich attempts his first experiments with cassette tapes, resulting in the fully mechanical It's Gonna Rain, characteristic of his art. Music for Eighteen Musicians, composed in the period 1974-76, is still seen as one of the most magnificent works of mature minimalism, ushering in the post-minimalist period in his oeuvre. Written for a large ensemble of percussion instruments, four pianos, four clarinets, a violin, a cello, and four vocalists, the piece proved that the composer's musical ideas can be translated into a fascinating, intriguing sound language that can be appreciated by a wide audience.

  The drama of the music moves from brightness to darkness, only to re-emerge in the light. This path is highlighted by harmony, contingent on a series of eleven cords, quite extensive or a minimalist composition.

  Kwadrofonik invited for the creation of the first Polish ensemble specialising in performing repetitive music and evoking the tradition of e.g. Steve Reich and Musicians, Ensemble Modern and Amadinda, eminent musicians associated with both new, avant-garde music and classical one (e.g. Kwartludium, Royal String Quartet, Warsaw Modern Duo, Mosaic). Although Kwadrofonik and Guests is composed of many artistic individualities, what is most significant is their nonverbal bond. Coupled with enthusiasm and creativity, it offers the listeners high-quality music set in the contemporary aesthetic sensitivity.

  This promises to be a unique and beautiful journey where every single one of us will be engrossed. Let us move away from our mundane reality and enjoy a music that throbs to the rhythm of our world.

  Miłosz Pękala

• Piotr "Pianohooligan" Orzechowski
  

  Piotr "Pianohooligan" Orzechowski

  Born in 1990, a pianist and composer, graduate of the Berklee College of Music, one of the most renowned young jazz musicians, acclaimed by critics the “hope of Polish jazz piano music”. After his victory at the Montreux Jazz Solo Piano Competition (2011) in Switzerland, he has performed across the world, his albums being released e.g. by Decca Classics.

  Piotr Orzechowski has been successfully exploring classical and improvised music, often blurring the boundaries between the two. This was the case with Experiment: Penderecki, a record debut hailed a phonographic sensation (Decca/Universal, 2012). The record was an attempt to find the core of the K. Penderecki's style by translating the orchestral component of his works into the piano solo. This is also evident in the album released with his band High Definition Quartet: Bukoliki/Bucolics, his original arrangement of W. Lutosławski's music for a jazz quarter (ForTune, 2015). Other phonographic projects he has to his credit include the HDQ released album Hopasa with his compositions (EmArcy Records/Universal, 2013); album Bach Rewrite (Decca/Universal, 2013) recorded with Marcin Masecki to the accompaniment of Capella Cracoviensis, or solo 15 Studies for the Oberek (Decca/Universal, 2014), which creatively analyses individual elements of the Polish dance oberek.

  Apart from solo activities as a jazz pianist, he also performs as a soloist with leading Polish orchestras, including Sinfonia Varsovia, the National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice, the AUKSO Chamber Orchestra, and the Polish Radio Orchestra.

  He has collaborated with such giants of contemporary music as Philip Glass, Steve Reich and Krzysztof Penderecki. He has performed with eminent figures of world and Polish jazz, such as Randy Brecker, Avishai Cohen, Victor Mendoza, Michał Urbaniak, and the Oleś brothers. He has collaborated with other great personalities of the world of music, such as, e.g. Adrian Utley from Portishead, Carlos Zíngaro, Agata Zubel, Skalpel, William Bass, Fennesz, and Krzysztof Knittel.

  He is valued for his individual, recognizable style, which is the result of moving on the borderline of genres - modern improvised and contemporary music, drawing on the tradition of Romanticism or Impressionism and on the sonoristic trend, and on the other hand attempting bold musical reinterpretations.

  Winner of the "Grand Prix Jazz Melomani" in the categories: "Hope for Music lovers" and "Record" for the Hopasa album were nominated for the most important Polish awards: "The Coryphaeus of Polish Music", "Gwarancje Kultury" or "Fryderyk".

  Piotr Orzechowski's third solo album, entitled 24 Preludes & Improvisations, is scheduled to premiere in 2017 It will be an attempt to analyse the idiom of improvisation.

• Paweł Kaczmarczyk
  

  Paweł Kaczmarczyk

  Born on 8 February 1984 in Krakow – Polish pianist, arranger, composer, and sideman.

  He has performed concerts across the globe, e.g. in Europe, USA, India, Africa, Asia, and the Arabian Peninsula.

  He has performed and collaborated with world-acclaimed artists such as Lee Konitz, Jon Christensen, Mino Cinelu, Emil Mangelsdorff, Poogie Bell, Hadrien Feraud, Eivind Aarset, Arild Andersen, Theodosii Spassov, Janusz Muniak, Piotr Wojtasik, Adam Pierończyk, and Zbigniew Namysłowski.

  “Listening to the way Paweł Kaczmarczyk gets sounds out of the keys, we can understand what full-blooded, completely engaged jazz piano playing is all about” – Howard Reich, Chicago Tribune.

  The artist’s third album Complexity in Simplicity, released by the prestigious ACT Music, opened the door to an international career. The record was recognised as the "Album", and Paweł Kaczmarczyk as the "Pianist" (JAZZ FORUM).

  Laureate of “Kulturalne Odloty Gazety Wyborczej” Award in the category “Artist of 2009” and the recipient of "Jazz Oscars" - Grand Prix Jazz Melomani in the categories: New Hope, Artist and Album. Twice nominated to the "FRYDERYK" Award in the categories: Jazz Musician and Phonographic Debut.

• Marcin Wasilewski
  

  Marcin Wasilewski

  Marcin Wasilewski is a pianist highly appreciated not only by jazz music fans. He was hailed by eminent experts and jazz critics in a ranking of the US prestigious jazz magazine Down Beat to be the ‘rising star’ of jazz piano music. Leader of his Marcin Wasilewski Trio.

  He graduated from the Grażyna Bacewicz Music School of First Degree in Koszalin and then from the Music High School in the same city. Between 1994 and 1999 he studied at the Faculty of Jazz and Entertainment Music of the Katowice Music Academy.

  In 1991, with Sławomir Kurkiewicz he founded the Simple Acoustic Trio (the ensemble’s ultimate composition was established in 1993, when it was joined by Michał Miśkiewicz), with whom he won awards at jazz competitions (Poland, France, Spain, Germany). He performed at many festivals (e.g. Jazz Jamboree 1993, 1994, 1998), and has recorded albums: Komeda (1995), When The Blues Leave (1995), Simple Acoustic Trio (1996), Habanera (2000), Trio (ECM, 2005).

  For the past 15 years (1994-2009), Wasilewski and his ensemble have worked with the Tomasz Stańko Quartet. Along with the leader, they participated in a vast number of tours (e.g. three times in the USA), recorded albums for ECM (Soul ff Things, 2001; Suspended Night, 2004, Lontano, 2006). Wasilewski has collaborated with Manu Katche (Neighbourhood, 2006; Playground, 2007).

  In 2008, the Trio recorded the album January for ECM (2005 and 2009) under the changed name (Marcin Wasilewski Trio). The artist received for this record the Fryderyk award in the category "Musician" and "Record".

  Moreover, Wasilewski has cooperated with many eminent musicians, such as Jan Garbarek, Joe Lovano, Dhafer Youssef, Henryk Miśkiewicz, Tomasz Szukalski, Piotr Wojtasik, Janusz Muniak, Baltica Ensamble, A. M. Jopek, D. Miśkiewicz, Arild Andersen, Jon Christensen, Trygve Seim, and Mathias Eick.

  In January 2012, Marcin Wasilewski Trio received the Mateusz Trójka Award for the Faithful (ECM) in recognition of the masterful music and respect for tradition. In May that year Marcin Wasilewski got his third Fryderyk Award in the category Best Jazz Musician (the earlier ones in 2005 and 2009).

  Marcin Wasilewski Trio received the Fryderyk Award in the category Jazz Album for the following records: Fryderyk 2001 for Henryk Miśkiewicz’s album Lyrics, Fryderyk 2002 for the Tomasza Stańko Quartet Soul of Things, Fryderyk 2005 for the album of Wasilewski Kurkiewicz Miśkiewicz Trio, and Fryderyk 2009 for the album of the Marcin Wasilewski Trio called January.

• Gloria Campaner
  

  Gloria Campaner

  Born in Italy, in Venice in 1986, Gloria Camapaner is seen by critics and audiences alike as one of the most interesting pianists of the young generation. She began learning piano at the age of four, gave her first recital at the age of five and made her debut as a soloist with the Venice Symphony Orchestra at the age of twelve. Since the beginning of her music education, Gloria Campaner has won first prizes in over twenty national and international competitions for young musicians.

  Her dynamic career as a soloist, orchestra and chamber music performer has ensured her presence at some of the largest music festivals on five continents. Gloria Campaner has gained international press acclaim for her "remarkable depth of music, remarkable smoothness, nuance and sense of style that place her among pianists of exceptional ability" (Walter Arlen - Los Angeles Times).

  Gloria Campaner won the silver medal at the Ignacy Paderewski International Piano Competition (Los Angeles 2010), where she also received special awards for the best performances of Paderewski's and Chopin's works.

  The artist has won the first prize and the Prokofiev Special Prize in the Ibla Grand Prize 2009 competition, after which she held her first tour of the United States and had her debut at the Carnegie Hall in 2010. The pianist is a laureate of many other international competitions, e.g. of the International Piano and Orchestra Competition Cantù (Como 2009), Vlado Perlemuter European Piano Competition (Le Hevre, France 2009), International T.I.M. Competition (Verona 2008), International Piano Competition Rospigliosi – R. Schumann Award (Pistoia, Italy 2008).

  On the 200th anniversary of the birth of Liszt, she got the Jury Award at the 11th Concours International de Musique du Maroc in Casablanca and the European Culture Award of the Pro Europa Foundation (Freiburg 2011).

  A scholarship holder of the Brahms Foundation in Baden-Baden (2009) and the Societa Umanitaria in Milan (2007).

  When at the age of 18 she completed with distinction the conservatory and got an MA summa cum laude under the supervision of Bruno Mezzena from the Music Academy in Pescara, she was selected to participate in many master classes across Europe, e.g. Ticino Musica (Lugano, Switzerland), Accademia Incontri col Maestro (Imola, Italy), Mozarteum (Salzburg), Mannes College (New York), working under eminent musicians, e.g. J. Swann, Jerome Rose, S. Perticaroli, A. Jasiński, P. Gililov, L. Zilberstein, D. Bashkirov, and B. Petrushansky. She dedicated the bulk of the last part of her studies to the interconnections with the Russian school, under the supervision of K. Bogino. At that time, as a soloist she completed the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe under the supervision of Prof. Fana Solter.

  Selected recordings from her concerts have been often played by international radio and tv stations, e.g. RAI, Radio Ljubljana, SKY Classica, RTSI, and CNN. More recently EMI has released her debut record with compositions by R. Schumann and S. Rachmaninov.

  Gloria Campaner is moreover very active as a chamber musician. She has performed with artists such as J. Moser, I. Gitlis, A. Chumachenco, M. Abbado, M. Kugel, S. Krilov, soloists of the Radio Symphony Orchestra in Stuttgart, and the La Scala Philharmonics (Milan).

• Thomas Enhco
  

  Thomas Enhco

  Not even thirty years of age, Thomas Enhco, born in 1988 in a family with a music background, began to play the violin and the piano at the age of three, learning both classical stylistic and jazz. As early as at the age of 9, he played at the legendary Jazz d’Antibes Juan-les-Pins Festival at the invitation of Didier Lockwood. At the age of 12, he entered Lockwood’s Music Centre, and four years later entered the CNSM Music Conservatory in Paris, specialising in jazz and impromptu music.

  His first album Esquisse, based on his own compositions, came out in 2006 in Ames/Harmonia Mundi. Two years later, after a greatly successful concert tour in Japan, he released another record under the supervision of the prestigious producer Itoh «88» Yasohachi; the record premiered in Tokyo and Paris.

  In 2010, Thomas received the third award at the international piano competition Martial Solal et le Django d’Or for the New Talent. In 2013 he was called the “new jazz hero” at the Gala of the Vitoires de la Musique; shortly before he had recorded his third album, Fireflies, in a trio with Chris Jennings and Nicolas Charlier.

  Enhco’s 2014 concert tour included e.g.: Tokyo, New York, Italy, China, Turkey, and Denmark. Immediately after completing the tour, Thomas wrote a contract for his first solo album Feathers, nominated in 2015 in the Record category of the Victoires du Jazz.

  Simultaneously, since 2009 Thomas Enhco has collaborated with the Bulgarian artist specialising in classical music an exceptional duo: piano / marimba and percussion instruments, which is acclaimed at prestigious music and jazz festivals. In April 2016 the duo recorded its first album Funambules for the legendary Deutsche Grammophon. The pieces from the record will be performed by Thomas and Vassilena during the Enter Enea Festival 2017.

• Barbara Drążkowska
  

  Barbara Drążkowska

  Barbara Drążkowska is a pianist well-known for her unconventional approach to music.

  Playing in the dark with night-vision glasses [Invisible Pianist], with Edison’s phonographs [Wax Music], and performing her concert tour on a bicycle [Green Pianist], Barbara has been developing her signature art language; it combines music with performance and theatre.

  Her numerous trips and changes of places of residence [Poland, Germany, Spain, now Belgium] have helped the pianist develop and secured her strong position on the European music stage.

  She has performed with musicians of such stature as Paweł Mykietyn, Agnieszka Duczmal, Nicholas Lens, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, David Dawson, Szymon Brzóska, and María Pagés.

  She has performed during festivals and in concert halls the world over [Sydney Opera House, NCPA Beijing, Auditorium in Rome, Warsaw Autumn, Ars Musica Brussels, Sounds New Canterbury, etc.].

  Barbara is incessantly seeking new manes of expression, getting involved in projects with traditional musicians from India, Japan, Korea, Congo, with the virtuosos of flamenco and tango. She also explores the potential of the piano itself, preparing her instrument and entering the zone of microtones.

• SHMIB (Simultaneous Hybrid of Musical Improvisation and Bioart)
  

  SHMIB (Simultaneous Hybrid of Musical Improvisation and Bioart)

  Atta sexdens (leafcutter ants) / Elvin Flamingo / Irek Wojtczak / JAAA! / Infer / special guest: Leszek Możdżer

  Enter has since the very start encouraged trials and experiments. This year we will begin the Festival with an exceptional experiment SHMIB, a satellite of Elvin Flamingo’s project Symbiosity of Creation.

  The concert is a result of cooperation between artists invited by Elvin Flamingo to his project SHMIB - a concept in which the protagonists are non-human beings - farmer ants - one of the most specialized superorganisms in the world, emanating a unique sound spectrum, inaudible to the unaided human ear.

  The musical leader of the SHMIB project - invited by Elvin Flamingo - is Irek Wojtczak, who incorporated the electronic group JAAA! in Elvin Flamingo's SHMIB project. The Infer group works on the visuals. Together they take care of the sound of the ants' habitat - they reveal the element of the Atta sexdens to the audience in its visual and sound dimension, and all this takes place in real time, with fully generative images. Leszek Możdżer will join this fascinating show, integrating elements of biology, visual arts and music as a special guest.

  Elvin Flamingo+Infer collective received the GRAND PRIX of this year’s WRO Media Art Biennial 2017 DRAFT SYSTEMS.

  2016

• Leszek Możdżer
  

  Leszek Możdżer

  Leszek Możdżer is one of the pre-eminent Polish jazz musicians, a world-class pianist, an intrepid explorer, and a unique artist who uses his own music language. Versatility, sensitivity and imagination are his signature features. His music cannot be contained within a single genre and he himself does not even bother to do so. Rather than that, he prefers to development in a host of different directions.

  Born on 23 March 1971 in Gdańsk, he started playing the piano at the age of five and, having completed all the schools, finally graduated from the Gdańsk Academy of Music in 1996. He grew interested in jazz in his final year of high school and gained his first experience in the band of the clarinet player Emil Kowalski and in the Miłość band of Tymon Tymański. In the early years of his career as a musician he was also a member of the Zbigniew Namysłowski Quartet and Eryk Kulm’s Quintessence. In 1993 he received an honourable mention at the Jazz Juniors, the first of an avalanche of awards grated to him to date.

  In 2011 Leszek Możdżer became the artistic director of Enter Music Festival in Poznań. The artists he invites here demonstrate a similar freshness and openness in their approach to music. During the first edition of the Festival, he played the pieces from his Komeda record, which was a world premiere of the music. In 2012, along with Andrzej Bauer and M.Bunio.S, he performed the Lutosphere project. Leszek Możdżer also performed with Cellonet, playing a piece composed specifically for the Enter Music Festival.

2016

• Jakub Płużek Quartet
  

  Jakub Płużek Quartet

  The quartet, in which the pianist is accompanied by Maksymilian Mucha on double bass, Marek Pospieszalski on saxophone and David Fortuna on drums, released their first record titled First Album in 2014. The album was very well received by critics and fans. According to the artists, the music played by the band is the result of a long time of absorbing and acquiring knowledge and feelings from the vibrations of the universe which they managed to encounter on their way. The band is inspired by ancient and modern music, folk, classical, avant-garde and even psychotrance, and performs mainly the compositions of its leader.

  Jakub Płużek – piano
  Maksymilian Mucha – double bass
  Mateusz Pospieszalski – saxophone
  Dawid Fortuna – percussion

• Eric Allen
  

  Eric Allen

  Eric Allen comes from Washington, D.C. and currently lives in Poland. He has been playing jazz music for 30 years. His style of playing was influenced by such musicians as Art Blakey, Max Roach, Tony Williams, Elvin Jones, "Papa" Jo Jones, and Jimmy Cobb. He studied jazz art and music theory at Lee Oddis Bass III at the Duke Ellington School for The Performing Arts in Washington, DC, with musicians such as trumpeter Wallace Roney and double bassist Clarence Seay. When he played at the local Blues Alley club in Washington, he was discovered by a jazzman named Illinois Jacquet. Allen moved to Boston to study at Berklee College of Music. In Boston, he joined the Illinois Jacquet Quintet with the great double bass innovator Slam Stewart. Illinois Jacquet also introduced him to the hi-hat master, drummer "Papa Jo" Jones. Eric played with jazz legend Lionel Hampton.

• Dieter Ilg
  

  Dieter Ilg

  Dieter Ilg is a double bass player who can skilfully combine apparent contradictions. The musician knows inside-out the world of jazz and classical music. Although he decided to become a double jazz bassist at the age of 16, he studied classical double bass and gained comprehensive knowledge of the history of music. Since then, he has combined these two qualities in different projects, each time demonstrating his excellent technique. He is an excellent stage partner, both as a leader and as an accompanying musician. He exhibits the advantages of the soloist, premium skill and empathy of a band member. Ilg's characteristic performance is a symbiosis of lyricism and expressiveness, which combination is his distinguishing feature on world stages. He has performed alongside Nguyen Le (with whom Enter Festival audiences are well familiar), Dave Liebman, Albert Mangelsdorff, Nils Landgren, and Charlie Mariano. He has recorded several dozen albums. The last three have been released by the ACT recording company.

• Zohar Fresco Quartet
  

  Zohar Fresco Quartet

  Well-known to Polish and Enter Festival audiences, Zohar Fresco was born in Israel in a family with Turkish roots. He started playing percussion instruments at the age of six. As a teenager, he became keenly interested in traditional Arabic instruments such as drums and tambourine. With time, with his own development and thanks to his distinctive performance style, he became a percussion player both at home and internationally. He has taken part in recordings of soundtracks to movies such as Kikar Hahalomot, The Fifth Element or The Land of Happiness. Tof Myriam is the first album of his quartet. The album is dominated by ethnic sounds of the Middle East, as always subordinated to fun and rhythm. There are also elements of jazz improvisation and numerous lyrical motifs supplementing the composition.

  Zohar Fresco - Tof Miriam, rig, percussion instruments, vocals
  Stratis Paradelis - kamancheh, Cretan flauto
  Mark Moshayev - percussion

• Nikola Kołodziejczyk Orchestra
  

  Nikola Kołodziejczyk Orchestra

  The Chord Nation concert suite was mainly the result of naivety, courage and lack of perspective. There was something real in the creation without regard for the limitations - during the raging economic crisis - in the sounds that were not created due to the low cost of future tours and were not made up with powder and simplified in order to increase the sales of records. I am convinced that music is a collaborative game and creating a band of this size has all the hallmarks of building a community with its own interdependencies, language and values. Since communities benefit from internal diversity, I took the liberty of inviting musicians from 3 different countries with 3 different views on music – classical, mainstream and free jazz. That is why the suite is called Chord Nation.

• radio.string.quartet
  

  radio.string.quartet

  The Vienna-based quartet creates original music, boldly crossing the boundaries between classical, popular and jazz music. Their perfect improvisation, virtuosity and creativity have delighted audiences and critics for years. Four outstanding musicians from all over the world freely bring their own musical ideas and diverse cultural identity to the compositions they play. In this sense, the international musicians – Austrians: Mallinger and Jenner, Croatian Valcic and Taiwanese Liao see themselves as protagonists of the new Vienna string school.

  The quarter was founded in 2004. For years, it has recorded music for the prestigious ACT Music recordings. They release records demonstrating divergent styles, such as: Celebrating the Mahavishnu Orchestra, Radiotree feat. Klaus Paier, Celebrating the Mahavishnu Orchestra (Live at Traumzeit Festival), and Radiodream. Their most recent, concert record is Posting Joe – Celebrating Weather Report - live. During their concert tours, from Europe through the USA, the quarter has been widely recognised for their dynamic and thrilling performances.

• Oskar Tőrők
  

  Oskar Tőrők

  Oskar Tőrők – a trumpeter, born in 1980 in Humenne (Svk). A graduate of the Jazz Institute in Katowice. After studying at the Classical Conservatory in Košice and Bratislava, he moved to Prague, where he studied at the Jaroslav Jezek Conservatory of Music. He has taken part in many different projects, from dance music to bebop, by: NUO, Vertigo Quintet, MUFF, Dj Niebieski, Jaromir Honzak, Alan Vitous, Miriam Bayle, Ondrej Stveracek Kwintet, Zuzana Dumkova Band, Pavel Fajt, Bucinatores Tentet, Musica Vizita Karel Ruzicka, Martin Zbrożek, Wojtek Mazolewski Quintet, Iva Bittova, and Leszek Możdżer. Apart from plyaing the trumpet, Oskar is a pianist and composer. Records with his contribution include: Vertigo Quintet – Vertigo Quintet (Amplión Records, 2005), Vertigo Quintet – Live U Staré Paní (Amplión Records, 2006), NUO – Multimusic Minibigband (Arta 2HP, 2004), Triny – Aven (Indies Records, 2006), Jan Burian – Dívčí Válka (Indies Records, 2006), Tara Fuki – Auris (Indies Records, 2007).

• Iva Bittova
  

  Iva Bittova

  Iva Bittova is a Czech avant-garde violinist, singer and composer who began her career in the mid-1970s in several Czech films.

  In the early 1980s she began playing the violin and singing, and her unique way of singing and the performing technique brought her international fame. Bittova's music is a combination of rock and folk music of Eastern Europe.

• PREMIERE Leszek Możdżer / Dieter Ilg / Eric Allen
  

  PREMIERE Leszek Możdżer / Dieter Ilg / Eric Allen

  To perform his new compositions, Możdżer has invited musicians who supplement him in his pursuits of the jazz roots: the German double bass player Dieter Ilg and the US percussion player Eric Allen. The project, prepared specifically for Enter, manifests a need to return to the jazz tradition. The new repertoire differs slightly from the previous works of the pianist and composer and is a reference to the language of mainstream jazz. The hallmark of Ilg's play on the double bass is a symbiosis of lyricism and clarity. This combination is his distinguishing feature on the international stages, where he has performed, among others, alongside Nguyen Lê and Nils Landgren, both well-known to the Polish audience. Eric Allen, although he lives in Poland today, developed his career over the years in Boston, where he was part of Illinois Jacquet Quintet with the great innovator of the double bass Slam Stewart. The meeting of the three musicians on one stage, performing a completely new repertoire of Leszek Możdżer, will be the premiere of this year's Enter Enea Festival.

  Leszek Możdżer – composition, piano
  Dieter Ilg – double bass
  Eric Allen – percussion

• SPECIAL PROJECT Leszek Możdżer / Iva Bittova / Oskar Torok
  

  SPECIAL PROJECT Leszek Możdżer / Iva Bittova / Oskar Torok

  Leszek Możdżer first met Iva Bittova during the Codes Festival in Lublin. This spontaneous concert gave rise to a special mini-tour in the Visegrad Group member states within the framework of Bridges-Gesharim program. During the Enter Festival we are given the opportunity to witness another encounter of the artists, so well-known to the Polish audiences, who on a daily basis belong to different music Worlds.

  Leszek Możdżer – piano
  Iva Bittova – vocals, violin
  Oskar Torok – trumpet

2015

• Leszek Możdżer
  

  Leszek Możdżer

  Leszek Możdżer is one of the pre-eminent Polish jazz musicians, a world-class pianist, an intrepid explorer, and a unique artist who uses his own music language. Versatility, sensitivity and imagination are his signature features. His music cannot be contained within a single genre and he himself does not even bother to do so. Rather than that, he prefers to development in a host of different directions.

  Born on 23 March 1971 in Gdańsk, he started playing the piano at the age of five and, having completed all the schools, finally graduated from the Gdańsk Academy of Music in 1996. He grew interested in jazz in his final year of high school and gained his first experience in the band of the clarinet player Emil Kowalski and in the Miłość band of Tymon Tymański. In the early years of his career as a musician he was also a member of the Zbigniew Namysłowski Quartet and Eryk Kulm’s Quintessence. In 1993 he received an honourable mention at the Jazz Juniors, the first of an avalanche of awards grated to him to date.

  In 2011 Leszek Możdżer became the artistic director of Enter Music Festival in Poznań. The artists he invites here demonstrate a similar freshness and openness in their approach to music. During the first edition of the Festival, he played the pieces from his Komeda record, which was a world premiere of the music. In 2012, along with Andrzej Bauer and M.Bunio.S, he performed the Lutosphere project. Leszek Możdżer also performed with Cellonet, playing a piece composed specifically for the Enter Music Festival.

• Leszek Możdżer / Dominik Bukowski / Atom String Quartet
• Ambrose Akinmusire Quartet
• Michael Wollny/Tamar Helperin feat Hanno Busch
• Sorin Zlat Trio
• Mateusz Pospieszalski

2014

• Leszek Możdżer
  

  Leszek Możdżer

  Leszek Możdżer is one of the pre-eminent Polish jazz musicians, a world-class pianist, an intrepid explorer, and a unique artist who uses his own music language. Versatility, sensitivity and imagination are his signature features. His music cannot be contained within a single genre and he himself does not even bother to do so. Rather than that, he prefers to development in a host of different directions.

  Born on 23 March 1971 in Gdańsk, he started playing the piano at the age of five and, having completed all the schools, finally graduated from the Gdańsk Academy of Music in 1996. He grew interested in jazz in his final year of high school and gained his first experience in the band of the clarinet player Emil Kowalski and in the Miłość band of Tymon Tymański. In the early years of his career as a musician he was also a member of the Zbigniew Namysłowski Quartet and Eryk Kulm’s Quintessence. In 1993 he received an honourable mention at the Jazz Juniors, the first of an avalanche of awards grated to him to date.

  In 2011 Leszek Możdżer became the artistic director of Enter Music Festival in Poznań. The artists he invites here demonstrate a similar freshness and openness in their approach to music. During the first edition of the Festival, he played the pieces from his Komeda record, which was a world premiere of the music. In 2012, along with Andrzej Bauer and M.Bunio.S, he performed the Lutosphere project. Leszek Możdżer also performed with Cellonet, playing a piece composed specifically for the Enter Music Festival.

• Bartosz Dworak Quartet
• Shai Maestro Trio
• Marius Neset & Trondheim Jazz Orchestra
• 3 Cohens
• Jacek Kochan / Dominik Wania / Leszek Możdżer

2013

• Leszek Możdżer
  

  Leszek Możdżer

  Leszek Możdżer is one of the pre-eminent Polish jazz musicians, a world-class pianist, an intrepid explorer, and a unique artist who uses his own music language. Versatility, sensitivity and imagination are his signature features. His music cannot be contained within a single genre and he himself does not even bother to do so. Rather than that, he prefers to development in a host of different directions.

  Born on 23 March 1971 in Gdańsk, he started playing the piano at the age of five and, having completed all the schools, finally graduated from the Gdańsk Academy of Music in 1996. He grew interested in jazz in his final year of high school and gained his first experience in the band of the clarinet player Emil Kowalski and in the Miłość band of Tymon Tymański. In the early years of his career as a musician he was also a member of the Zbigniew Namysłowski Quartet and Eryk Kulm’s Quintessence. In 1993 he received an honourable mention at the Jazz Juniors, the first of an avalanche of awards grated to him to date.

  In 2011 Leszek Możdżer became the artistic director of Enter Music Festival in Poznań. The artists he invites here demonstrate a similar freshness and openness in their approach to music. During the first edition of the Festival, he played the pieces from his Komeda record, which was a world premiere of the music. In 2012, along with Andrzej Bauer and M.Bunio.S, he performed the Lutosphere project. Leszek Możdżer also performed with Cellonet, playing a piece composed specifically for the Enter Music Festival.

• Marialy Pacheco Trio
• Adrian Gaspar Improvision
• PROJEKT SPECJALNY Możdżer/Danielsson/Fresco Trio
• Zohar Fresco & Goście
• Cæcilie Norby & Lars Danielsson / Leszek Możdżer / Nguyên Lê / Robert Ikiz
• Ba Cissoko

2012

• Leszek Możdżer
  

  Leszek Możdżer

  Leszek Możdżer is one of the pre-eminent Polish jazz musicians, a world-class pianist, an intrepid explorer, and a unique artist who uses his own music language. Versatility, sensitivity and imagination are his signature features. His music cannot be contained within a single genre and he himself does not even bother to do so. Rather than that, he prefers to development in a host of different directions.

  Born on 23 March 1971 in Gdańsk, he started playing the piano at the age of five and, having completed all the schools, finally graduated from the Gdańsk Academy of Music in 1996. He grew interested in jazz in his final year of high school and gained his first experience in the band of the clarinet player Emil Kowalski and in the Miłość band of Tymon Tymański. In the early years of his career as a musician he was also a member of the Zbigniew Namysłowski Quartet and Eryk Kulm’s Quintessence. In 1993 he received an honourable mention at the Jazz Juniors, the first of an avalanche of awards grated to him to date.

  In 2011 Leszek Możdżer became the artistic director of Enter Music Festival in Poznań. The artists he invites here demonstrate a similar freshness and openness in their approach to music. During the first edition of the Festival, he played the pieces from his Komeda record, which was a world premiere of the music. In 2012, along with Andrzej Bauer and M.Bunio.S, he performed the Lutosphere project. Leszek Możdżer also performed with Cellonet, playing a piece composed specifically for the Enter Music Festival.

• Edmar Castañeda Trio
• PROJEKT SPECJALNY Możdżer / Bauer / M. Bunio. S
• Funky Unit Nils Landgren
• Atom String Quartet
• Lars Danielsson Quartet
• Cellonet + Leszek Możdżer

2011

• Paweł Kaczmarczyk
• Michael Wollny
• Viktoria Tolstoy
• Leszek Możdżer / Zohar Fresco
• Nik Bartsch Ronin
• Olo Walicki / Gaba Kulka / Maciej Szupica