Saturday 8th February 2025
Marta Mathea Radwan Quartet: Polish Jazz Goes to the Cinema!
Marta Mathea Radwan Quartet will present a programme of jazz songs featured in Polish movies from 30’s to 80’s by great composers like Henryk Wars, Krzysztof Komeda, Andrzej Trzaskowski or Jerzy Duduś Matuszkiewicz. It will be a journey through golden time of Polish jazz filled with music and anecdotes, all set to a backdrop of clips and photos from great musical moments on film.
Line up:
Marta Mathea Radwan - voice
Anita Łazińska - keyboards
Jakub Cywiński - double bass
Eric Ford - drums
Marta Mathea Radwan is the award-winning conductor, composer, arranger, vocalist, and workshop leader. She has over 30 years experience on stage and in the music industry. Marta holds a doctoral degree from the F. Chopin University of Music in Warsaw with a specialism in jazz conducting. She works internationally, in Poland, Denmark and the United Kingdom. Currently she is a leader of several music projects in London including Offbeat Choirs, Norden Farm Centre for the Arts choirs, and others. She teaches at Brunel University London and actively performs as a jazz singer. www.mmradwan.com
Anita Łazińska is a versatile musician - vocalist, pianist, composer, graduate of the Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz (Poland). Currently a leader of Anita Łazińska Quartet - a band in which she presents her ideas of compositions and arrangements. Anita is also a member of H3O, Muze Voices and Wild Whispers - bands in which improvisation and searching for unusual sounds plays an important role. An active musician - she has been a part of projects such as All Souls’ Day Jazz Festival, Voicingers on Tour in London or WąbJazzno Festival (Poland). She also had the pleasure of collaboration with great musicians of the Polish jazz scene like the Leszek Kułakowski Trio, Piotr Damasiewicz, Maciej Sikała.
Jakub Cywiński is a double bass player and composer who currently explores his interest in collaborating with various contemporary composers and jazz musicians such as Ola Onabule, Marco Marconi, Partikel, Duncan Eagles Quartet among others. He studied double bass as a postgraduate at the Royal College of Music. His varied freelance career has taken him to India, Russia, Lebanon and other places around the world.
Eric Ford has been resident in London since late 2006, after 4 years in Paris. He enjoys working across the spectrum of music and has played across the globe and on around 60 albums. He's performed at iconic venues such as Ronnie Scott's and the Royal Albert Hall, and with musicians as diverse as Ronnie Laws, Marc Almond, Clare Teal, the London Jazz Orchestra and Jason Rebello. He's also presented drum clinics in London and Beijing and has been a member of acclaimed contemporary jazz trio Partikel since 2009.
Marta Mathea Radwan Quartet: Polski jazz idzie do kina!
Marta Mathea Radwan Quartet zaprezentuje program utworów jazzowych ktore pojawiły się w polskich filmach od lat 30. do 80. autorstwa wielkich polskich kompozytorów, takich jak Henryk Wars, Krzysztof Komeda, Andrzej Trzaskowski czy Jerzy Duduś Matuszkiewicz. Będzie to pełna muzyki i anegdot podróż przez złote czasy polskiego jazzu, a wszystko to w tle klipów i zdjęć z filmowych wspaniałych momentów muzycznych!
Muzycy:
Marta Mathea Radwan – głos
Anita Łazińska – instrumenty klawiszowe
Jakub Cywiński – kontrabas
Neil Bullock – perkusja
Marta Mathea Radwan to wielokrotnie nagradzana dyrygentka, kompozytorka, aranżerka, wokalistka i liderka warsztatów. Ma ponad 30-letnie doświadczenie na scenie i w branży muzycznej. Marta jest absolwentką Uniwersytetu Muzycznego F. Chopina w Warszawie ze specjalizacją w dyrygenturze jazzowej. Pracuje na arenie międzynarodowej, w Polsce, Danii i Wielkiej Brytanii. Obecnie jest liderem kilku projektów muzycznych w Londynie, w tym chórów Offbeat Choirs, Norden Farm Centre for the Arts i innych. Wykłada na Uniwersytecie Brunel w Londynie i aktywnie występuje jako wokalistka jazzowa.
