6-th August 2011, Saturday, 12:00
blues guitar - lecturer - Kajetan Drozd
A charismatic musician, head over heels in love with blues music and completely dedicated to it. A guitarist, harmonica player and author of music and lyrics. Closely connected to Silesia region. The founder of Siódma w Nocy band, which was the winner of Rawa Blues Festival contests in 2006 and 2008. Currently, he`s also giving concerts with his new project – Kajetan Drozd Acoustic Trio.
Kajetan has performed during nearly all important blues festivals in Poland and he has won many of their competitions. He and his band were invited to the Minimax radio programme by Piotr Kaczkowski. Their compositions are a part of music anthology Minimax.Pl (2008) and both editions of Polish Blues Anthology (2008, 2009). Probably, there is no place in our country where the blues fans haven`t heard of Kajetan and Siódma w Nocy.
13-th August 2011, Saturday, 12:00
jazz guitar - lecturers - Przemysław Strączek, Teriver Cheung
(soloing and accompaniment)
Przemysław Strączek (born 1976) – jazz guitarist, composer, producer, arranger, educator, laureate of the Marek Bliziński Master Contest of Jazz Guitarists in Warsaw in 2001 and 2003. He is a graduate of Music Institute at Silesian University in Cieszyn and Jazz Institute at Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice. From 1998 to 2006 he was a leader of his first band Tres Jazz. In 2004 they recorded the album “The Shape of Melody”. Since 2006 he`s been a leader of many music projects and has been working with great jazz musicians of young generation. During this time, he has recorded many albums and performed both in Poland and abroad.
His last album “Light & Shadow” from 2010 was recorded together with Jerzy Małek, Maciej Garbowski, Sebastian Kuchczyński and the string quartet.
www.przemekstraczek.com
Teriver Cheung (born 1985) – guitarist born in Hong Kong. He started living in the USA five years ago. A graduate of prestigious University of North Texas, an apprentice of Fred Hamilton, a finalist of the Thailand International Jazz Conference Solo Competition 2011 organised by College of Music, Mahidol University of Salaya.
He works with many fantastic musicians, who also cooperate with Miles Davis, Tonny Benet and Marcus Miller. He gives concerts mostly in the USA and Asia.
www.terivercheung.com
Venue:
The Ruins of the Theatre in Gliwice
Aleja Przyjaźni 18
The workshops are open both for jazz fans/listeners and (future) musicians.
Free entrance.
To take part in the workshops, you have to send an application via e-mail to sjc@sjc.pl
english translation: Magdalena Zaremba
