JAZZ FORT: Wojciech Myrczek Duo

JAZZ FORT: Wojciech Myrczek Duo

Date: 13.03 (Friday), 7:00 PM
Venue: Fort Sokolnickiego, ul. Czarnieckiego 51, Warsaw
Tickets: 40 zł — available online only

One of Poland’s most promising jazz vocalists — Wojciech Myrczek. Winner of numerous prestigious awards; in his singing he uses not only words but also scat, freely improvising and boldly drawing from the crooning tradition.

Performances (selected venues and clubs):

• NOSPR in Katowice
• Conservatory in Saint Petersburg
• Zabrze Philharmonic
• Świętokrzyska Philharmonic
• “Sinfonia Baltica” Philharmonic in Słupsk
• Finnish Institute in Paris
• BMC Opus Jazz Club in Budapest
• Bird’s Basement in Sydney
• Hudson Studios in New York
• Roma Theatre in Warsaw

Festival appearances (selected):

• Montreux Jazz Festival
• Bielska Zadymka Jazzowa
• Kolory Polski — Festival of the Łódź Philharmonic
• Jazz nad Odrą
• Festival of Jazz Pianists in Kalisz
• Sofia Jazz Peak Festival
• Celje International Jazz Festival
• The Hague Jazz
• Brisbane Jazz Festival

Collaborations with artists (selected):

• Jan “Ptaszyn” Wróblewski
• Tomasz Stańko
• Henryk Miśkiewicz
• Arek Skolik
• Anna Serafińska
• Lora Szafran
• Stanisław Fijałkowski
• Camerata Silesia — Śpiewaków Miasta Katowice Ensemble

Awards and distinctions:

• 1st place and Audience Award — Shure Montreux Jazz Voice Competition, Switzerland (2013)
• 1st prize — International Meeting of Jazz Vocalists in Zamość (2007)
• Award for the Most Individual Performer of the Competition — Lotos Jazz Festival Bielska Zadymka Jazzowa (2010)
• Grand Prix — Jazz Voices (Lithuania, 2011)
• Grand Prix Jazz Melomani — Nadzieja Melomanów (2014)

Since 2015, readers of Jazz Forum magazine have four times chosen him Vocalist of the Year in the Jazz Top polls. He has also received awards from the Mayor of Czechowice-Dziedzice and the Starost of Bielsko for his contribution to cultural development.