JazzCLUB / Katowice JazzArt Festival (canceled) - NOSPR

We sadly have to inform you that the concert was cancelled. We were very much looking forward to this meeting. Unfortunately, difficulties related to the pandemic have stood in its way.

Tickets can be returned. Please contact the Sales & Box Office.

We strongly encourage you to take a look at our calendar of events for the 2020/2021 season. There are still many great concerts ahead of us. Thank you for being with us in the concert hall, online and during radio broadcasts.

Piano duets have their history in jazz music. And it is usually spelt with capital letters. Some of the world finest pianists played together the grand instrument -  Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Friedrich Goulda or Leszek Możdżer and Adam Makowicz, among them. And there would surely be none if it were not for a great passion of those musicians to engage themselves in an artistic conversation.

Such is the case of the piano duo – Sunny Gunnlaugs and Julia Hulsmann. Their recitals are a fascinating meeting of  German precision and reliability with an aura of Finnish philosophic melancholy. In their countries both women are leading forces of jazz music and they are its great hopes. They will appear in Poland thanks to the efforts of Jazz ART Festival, this year hosted by NOSPR.

The concert will also be an opportunity to listen to the first fully individual album in Łukasz Ojdana’s career in which he meets…the traditional melodies from the Kurpie region.

Łukasz Ojdana is a pianist and a composer known to the wider audience mainly from the renowned trio RGG, with which he has been recording and touring since 2013, though that is only one of his artistic endeavours. For three years Ojdana had been a member of Tomasz Stańko’s last quartet, he also currently is part of Zbigniew Namysłowski Quintet. His discography consists of nine award-winning and distinguished albums. The artist himself can boast of a number of individual successes and triumphs in various contests.

Kurpian Songs & Meditations is an album of an intimate and honest character, devoid of calculations and imitating trends, recorded almost in one take, without any sound tricks and multiple hours spent in the studio.