Folk Bands and Artists
Przemysaw Straczek Quartet
Przemysław Strączek - jazz guitarist, composer, producer, graduate of the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice, a two-time laureate of the Master Jazz Guitarists´ Competition in Warsaw, one of the seven finalists of the global solo competition Thailand International Jazz Conference Solo Competition in Bangkok. For many years he has been present in the ranking of the best Polish guitarists according to the readers of Jazz Forum - Jazz Top. In 2013, he received the Special Award of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage for artistic achievements. Since 2011, he has been co-creating international projects as a leader with musicians from different continents, presenting contemporary trends in jazz and ethno-jazz music. His sixth original album Fig Tree received wide coverage among music journalists and critics in Poland and abroad, receiving the award in the form of the best album of 2020 according to the British-French portal Jazz Fuel, and the vinyl version of this album became a Polish bestseller in the first week after its release on the OLiS list of the Association of Audio Video Producers. He has collaborated and gives concerts with outstanding artists: Andy Sheppard, Xu Fengxia and Janusz Muniak. He also received the Award of the Marshal of the Silesian Voivodeship in the field of music for 2015. He has concert tours with his own music in many countries around the world performing at many international jazz festivals and in social and cultural centers.
