I warmly invite you to my next musical birthday (yes, it's already a little tradition!). Although this year it's a bit delayed, it only serves as an excuse to raise a toast to my friends who were also born in the first half of the first month of the calendar year 😉

On this occasion, I will remind you of my original program 'Tribal Songs' – inspired by tribal cultures, reinterpreting their distant echoes, coupled with the spirit of Mother Nature, listening to the voices of ancestors, but also immersed in the 'here and now' and open to a more or less futuristic future.
During this concert, there will also be quotes from the other parts of my triptych – 'Strange Songs' (I) and 'City Songs' (III) as well as improvisations based on my own poems and those of other poets who have ever moved me... There will also be musical surprises!

And the MOST IMPORTANT – it will be the premiere of my album 'Tribal Songs' in streaming (Opus series, Requiem Records), which until now has only existed on CD as 'Tribal Songs live'. However, the time has come for the studio version, financed by ZAW STOART, the largest Polish collective management organization for rights to artistic performances of musical and word-musical works (special thanks to Quality Studio for the recording!).

So, shall we meet? 🙂 There will be cake too!!!

January 19, 2025, Sunday
7 PM
PraCoVnia Art-Club, ul. Popiełuszki 16, Warsaw
Admission? You throw into the proverbial hat as much as you feel like, wanting to support artists like me – outside the mainstream 🙂

Maja [Maya] Baczyńska – musician and performer, screenwriter and director, special education teacher and art therapist, author of lyrics. Doctor of musical arts at UMFC. Member of, among others, the Association of Polish Musicians, the Association of Polish Journalists, the Association of Polish Writers, as well as the Screenwriters Circle, the Young Circle, the Documentarians Section, and the board of the Directors Circle of the Polish Filmmakers Association. Initiator of networking meetings 'Music in Film SFP'. Award winner in several fields of art, scholarship holder of PISF, ZAiKS, and STOART, author of the libretto for the Passion for soloists, choir, and orchestra by Rafał Kłoczko and the libretto for the symphonic fairy tale 'The Magic Baton' by Zuzanna Niedzielak, as well as films (including 'A Few Questions About Hearing the World', 'Dear, Fall!', 'Warsaw Music: Warsaw Suite II', 'Premiere x 3'), performances ('Dziwnotwór', 'Butterfly and Wolf', 'Mother Codified'), poetry collections ('Wild Feathers' – awarded 1st prize Grand Prix in the National Poetry Competition 'For the Golden Bee', 'Heritage', 'Mother Codified') and a children's book 'Lake of Secrets and Other Stories'. She plays concerts of intuitive music at the intersection of experiment and tradition and relaxation music. She creates music for butoh performances. She has collaborated with, among others: Signal To Noise Ratio, Kuonotorkują, Warsaw Gamelan Group (Sonus ex Machina Festival, Andrzej Wawrzyniak Museum of Asia and the Pacific, National Philharmonic). She has performed in, among others: Butohsphere (Butoh Kai, Japoniki), New Theatre, Witold Lutosławski Concert Studio of Polish Radio, in the Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, in the Akt Theatre (including as part of the Butohpolis festival), at the Experyment Festival, Fortalicje Festival, Ale Wiocha Festival, National Review of Contemporary Art 'Forma' or as part of the Music Festival Ecos Urbanos in Mexico (in compositions by Marzena Majcher) and others.
Since 2023, she has been collaborating (playing the violin) with the punk band Ciary. For over 15 years, she has been conducting music and art therapy classes and workshops (including improvisation based on traditional songs or sound meditation with bowls). Author of solo music projects: triptych – 'Strange Songs', 'Tribal Songs' (released in 2022 as a live CD album), 'City Songs' and 'Haiku Music' and 'Flower Songs'.