Mateusz Gawada Trio again on tour in China

chiny24.com 7 months ago

Mateusz Gawada Trio, will execute on a tour in China. The Krakow trio will play 6 concerts in Chongqing, Nanning, Shenzhen, Shanghai, Xiamen from 1 to 8 December. The tour is organized as part of the JAZZ POLSCU task “About the World”.

Mateusz Gawada Trio, will be touring in China from 1 to 8 December. The trio included: Mateusz Gawęda (piano), Alan Wykrzysz (kontrabas), Grzegorz Pałka (drums) will play a full of 6 concerts. The formation will start its tour in Shanghai on 1 December at the Lincoln Center club, then execute at Chongqing at NUTS club on 4 December and Chengdu on 5 December at Streaming Records. In the following da-nias, the trio will play: 6 December in Xiamen at RealLive and Books, 7 December at Nanning at the Malt home Jazz Club, and will end in 8 December at Shenzhen at Lavo Club.

Mateusz Gawęda Trio has been in existence since 2014 and performs his author's program composed of compositions of the band's leader, inspired by all musical genres, mainly jazz from the 1960s, European music of the 20th century and contemporary music. The words that could best describe the band's music are freshness, maturity, emotions, fun and darkness.

The group will execute an first repertoire during a tour in China, which includes tracks from 2 studio albums: “Falstart” (2018) and “Overnight Tales” (2016). The trio besides prepared a peculiar song for the Asian audience, the song "Prelude in E Minor" by Frederick Chopin. In June last year, the band toured Japan and China, where they performed, among others, in Pit Inn clubs in Tokyo and Blue Note clubs in Shanghai, and in November that year they played a tour in South Korea, where they performed at, among others, Evans Jazz Club in Seoul.

Concerts by Mateusz Gawada Trio in China are organized by the JAZZ POLSKA Foundation as part of the JAZZ POLSKA task “About the World”. It took the form of an global tour and is inspired by the achievements of the Polish traveler, Paweł Edmund Strzelecki, who was the first Pole to tour the planet (1834-1843). Strzelecki made an extraordinary journey between 1834 and 1843 during which he conducted extended geological and geographical research, contributing to the improvement of cognition about the modern world.

The tour JAZZ POLSKA “About the World” began in May 2023, and it already has over 150 events in 20 countries around the world, including many in China.

The JAZZ task “About the World” is implemented by the JAZZ POLSK Foundation. The honorary patro-nat over the task was covered by the Ministry of abroad Affairs. The partners of the task are: Adam Mickiewicz Institute, LOT Polish Airlines, Industrial improvement Agency Foundation and economical Diplomacy Foundation. The strategical partner of the task is the Podlaskie Region.
The partners of the Chinese edition of the task are the Polish Institute in Beijing, the Consulate General of Poland in Canton, the Consulate General of Poland in Shanghai. The sponsor of the Chinese edition of the task is Allrango.
Media Patrons: 3 Polish Radio, Polish Press Agency, Jazz TV, Jazz Forum, Jazz Soul, China 24.com.

MATEUSZ GAWADA TRIO
Mateusz Gawęda – piano, Alan Wykrzysz – double bass – Grzegorz Palka – drums

1.12, Shanghai, Lincoln Center
4.12, Chongqing, NUTS Live House
5.12, Chengdu, Streaming Records
6.12, Xiamen, RealLive and Books Live House
7.12, Nanning, Malt home Jazz Club
8.12, Shenzhen, Lavo * feat Zhizhi Zhou

Mateusz Gawęda Trio has existed since 2014 and performs his authorial program composed of compositions of the band's leader, inspired by all musical genres, mainly jazz from the 1960s, European music of the 20th century and contemporary music. The words that could best describe the band's music are freshness, maturity, emotions, fun and darkness. In 2016, the trio recorded a debut album entitled “Overnight Tales”, which was and is very enthusiastically received by audiences and critics (including received a nomination for the 2017 Fryderyki Award in the Jazz Music category – Fonographic Debut of the Year). In 2018 another album of the band titled "Falstart" appeared.
https://mateuszgaweda.com

“[... In shaping your own kind in fresh times, it is worth looking for fresh meaning, and here, what seems to be a global synthesis of inspiration. Mateusz Gawęda, following this principle, seems to be heading towards full piano, thus developing the concept of a progressive forte-pian trio, where I have my place of recognized compositions of specified excellent pianists as Marilyn Crispell, Vi-jay Iyer or Matthew Shipp. Gawęda, ideally found in this imagination of full mathematics, perfectly leads his squad – sometimes very spatially, precisely, ambiguously, sometimes close to the jazz idiom. This is the full fact about the music trio – demanding, intelligent, pulsating with a multitude of meanings and solutions, profoundly emotional, very complex and intellectual. It is said that this is how large musical personalities work.”
Tomasz Łuczak (Polish-Jazz.blogspot)

Matthew Gawwad – The pianist, composer, has worked with artists specified as Billy Hart, John Scofield, John Medeski, Ralph Alessi, Gianni Gebbia, Albert Beger, Maciej Obara, Janusz Muniak and many others. He derives inspiration mainly from musicians specified as Agustí Fernández, Mathew Shipp, Herbie Hancock, Ahmad Jamal, Igor Strawiński or Wojciech Kilar, but most of all from the love for music and the request to discover the world... In fresh years, he has besides explored topics related to spirituality and broadly understood interior development. He has 14 albums released in his account. Winner of many on-shore competitions at most of the most crucial competitions in the country. He has performed at most Polish jaz-zow festivals. In June 2023 together with his trio he made a tour in Japan and China, where he besides recorded material for the band's fresh album. For the album, Mateusz Gawada Trio "Overnight Tales" was awarded, among others, with the nomination for the 2017 Fryderyki Award in the Jazz Music category – Fonogra-ficzny Debut of the Year. He is presently working on the author's solo task "Overnight Spells". Since 2022 he has co-founded the staff of the global Jazz Workshop “Cho-Jazz” in Cho-Jazz.

Alan You'll mock – bass player, bass guitarist, composer, improviser, educator. He graduated from the Academy of Music in Krakow and Katowice. Lecturer at the K. Penderec-ki Academy of Music in Kraków in bass guitar class. Winner of specified competitions as Jazz Hoeilaart 2011, Bass Copenhagen-hagen 2012 or Jazz nad Oder 2015. He has toured many festivals in countries specified as Kuwait, Qatar, Spain, USA, Canada, Belgium, China, Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia and India. Together with the advanced Defi-nition Quartet team, he was nominated for the 2014 FRYDERYK Award (Hopas disc), and with the 2016 Tri Mateusz Gawędy for the 2016 FRYDERYK for the "Overnight Tales", with the squad Natalia Kordiak Quintet nominated for the 2020 FRYDERYK Award (Fairboard plate) for the best phonographic debut. Three-time scholarship from the Minister of Culture. He has toured with specified artists as Janusz Muniak, Randy Brecker, Dave Liebman, Aga Zaryan, Joel Frahm, Adam Pieronian, Paweł Kaczmarczyk, Mateusz Gawada, Anna Gadt and Michał Ur-baniak. He is the leader of his own squad "Alan Wykrzysz Project".

Dr Grzegorz Palka– drummer born in 1994 in Kraków. He graduated from the Academy of Music in Krakow, which he graduated with honors in the class of Dr. Łukasz Żyta and Dr. Wojciech Fedkowicz. Many times awarded at percussion and jazz festivals of global and national importance: Jazz Juniors, Krokus Jazz Fe-stiwal, Blue Note Jazz Competition, global Drumfest. In 2016 and 2018 he received a scholarship from the Minister of Culture and National Heritage for outstanding artistic achievements. 3 times nominated for the Fryderyki Award in the category of Jazz Phonographic Debut of the Year (Ma- teusz Gawada Overnight Tales, Łukasz Kokoszko fresh Chal-lange, Natalia Kordiak Bajka). He improved his cognition and skills in classes taught by prominent in-strumentalists specified as Billy Drummond, Eric Harland, Marcus Gilmore, Kendrick Scott, Da-mion Reid, Ari Hoenig, Dennis Mackrel. His performance activities represent between another performances at prestigious festivals in Europe (JazzAhead, London Jazz Festival, Palatia Jazz Festival, Sopot Jazz Festival, Jazz Jamboree, etc.), Asia (Nine Gates Festival, Ubud Village Jazz Fe-stival, etc.) and North America (All Souls Jazz Festival, Indy Jazz Fest, etc.). In his artistic achievements he can boast cooperation with many of the outstanding Polish and not only: Janusz Muniak, Danny Grissett, Henryk Miśkiewicz, Peter Bernstein, Dominik Wania, Andrzej Olejniczak, Marek Napiórkowski, Jacek Niedziela-Meira, Andy Middletone, Dorota Miśkiewicz, Jorge Vis-tel, Grzegorz Nagórski, Rafał Sarnecki, Piotr Orzechowski, Kuba Badach, Szymon Mika, Paweł Kaczmar-czyk, Justyna Stczkowska and many others.

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