Grzech Piotrowski

Grzech Piotrowski — for more than thirty years an artist balancing on the edge of film music, classical, jazz, ethno, roots and open improvisation. A saxophonist, composer and music producer, he builds projects full of space, emotion and magic — projects driven by the coherent collaboration of strong personalities and musical temperaments. In 2009 he founded the international „World Orchestra", a project that slips past frames and standards — gathering outstanding soloists, vocalists and instrumentalists from different parts of the world: the roots of world music colliding with symphony orchestra, jazz, folklore and film music. Within this multicultural ensemble, a string of spectacular musical productions has been born. At the same time, through solo performances and smaller formats, he has shaped a musical signature — the distinctive sound of his saxophone. A graduate of the prestigious Jazz and Popular Music Department at the Academy of Music in Katowice (saxophone class). Three-time nominee for the Fryderyk awards (2012, 2013) and for the Polish Radio Mateusz 2012 award. Grand Prix winner at the Hoeilaart Jazz Festival (Belgium, 1998), Grand Prix of the Dwa Teatry festival in Sopot for the music to Škvorecký's „The Bass Saxophone", and first-place winner at the „Jazz nad Odrą", „Pomorska Jesień Jazzowa" and „Jazz Juniors" festivals. Founder of the bands World Orchestra (from 2010), Alchemik, Oxen, Dekonstrukcja Jazzu, Freedom Nation and Head Up. RECENT SYMPHONIC WORKS · Symphony „Lech, Czech and Rus" — premiered 9 July 2016 at the NOSPR Hall in Katowice, on the 1050th anniversary of the Baptism of Poland; inspired by the encounter between the music of pagan Slavs and the Gregorian chant. · Symphony „Stu" — premiered 3 March 2018 at the Grand Theatre / National Opera, performed by the Orchestra and Choir of the National Opera together with World Orchestra; nearly two hundred artists on stage. Collaborators include Jon Christensen, Arild Andersen, Mino Cinelu, Bendik Hofseth, Eivind Aarset, Theodosii Spassov, Bulgarian Voices Angelite, Ewa Bem, Urszula Dudziak, Grażyna Auguścik, Ruth Wilhelmine Meyer, Marcin Wasilewski, Atom String Quartet, Terje Isungset, Kayah, Sinikka Langeland, Wu Wei, Sainkho Namtchylak, Sergey Starostin, Lrk Trio, Vladiswar Nadishana, Sebastian Karpiel-Bułecka, Anna Maria Jopek, Elnatan Shachar, Peter Somos, Piotr Matusik, Tamara Behler, Marcel Comendant, Lars Andreas Haug, Michał Barański, Hadrien Feraud, Sebastian Wypych, Robert Luty, Liz Rosa, Fatu Djaquite, Jenifer Solidade, Gregory Privat, Rain Sultanov — and many others.