All Souls Jazz Sokratis Sinopoulos Quartet with Nikola Kołodziejczyk and NOSPR Strings - NOSPR

Sokratis Sinopoulos is a modern virtuoso lyre player – a string instrument which origins and tradition of playing goes back to Byzantine times. His playing is subtle and delicate, and yet very expressive, making his masterly performances widely admired. Sinopoulos with equal ease can cross borders between jazz and classical music while staying true to folk music of his native Greece and other countries of the East Mediterranean. In 2010 he started Sokratis Sinopoulos Quartet whose debut recording „Eight Winds" produced by Manfred Eicher and released in 2015 by ECM recording studio, has been well received by critics all over the world. In 2019 the band recorded their second album "Metamodal" released by the same ECM studio. Sokratis performs on stage and in collaborates in recording studios with artists such as Charles Lloyd, Ara Dinkjian, Loreena McKennitt, Eleni Karaindrou, Jean Guihen Queyras and Ross Daly,  always marking his clear personal presence in music repertoire from world to contemporary. Sokratis Sinopoulos is a professor at the Department of University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki.

Nikola Kołodziejczyk – a composer and an arranger operating on the crossover between classical and improvised music, often using folk and historical instruments; also a conductor and a pianist – currently and assistant professor at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw. Winner of many prestigious music awards such as two Fryderyk Awards for albums „Chord Nation" and „Barok Progresywny". He was twice nominated to receive ‘Koryfeusz Muzyki Polskiej’ Award. Nikola is also a co-founder of Konglomerat Big Band, and also Instant Ensemble and Stryjo Trio. He made music arrangements for The Metropole Orkest and also for Richard Bony, AUKSO, Agata Zubel, Grażyna Auguścik, Maciej Obara, Nederlands Blasers Ensemble, Quatuor Amôn and Atom String Quartet. He conducted many Polish and foreign orchestras.