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 MAREK NAPIÓRKOWSKIMarek Napiórkowski is a leading Polish jazz guitarist and composer. For many years, he has proven himself as an all-around artist with unique musical language of his own. Difficult to put labels on: with each musical journey, he takes us into even more intriguing worlds, bound together with his signature sound. Ever since the beginning of his career, his name has been featured in the top musician rankings. Since 2012, the readers of Jazz Forum magazine have consistently selected him as the Jazz Guitarist Of The Year. Napiórkowski has been acclaimed by both the industry and critics becoming a six time nominee of the prestigious Music Award FRYDERYK in Jazz Musician of The Year and Jazz Album of The Year categories. He also has been awarded the Szczota prize by the Polish National Radio Program III. His name has been credited on more than 150 albums with various artists. His solo albums include: NAP (2005, Universal Music Group) – featuring Anna Maria Jopek, Leszek Możdżer and Henryk Mi¶kiewicz Wolno (2007, Universal Music Group) – featuring, amongst others, Gregoire Maret, Mino Cinelu, Michał Mi¶kiewicz and Robert Majewski. The album achieved a gold record status Marek Napiórkowski Trio KonKubiNap (2011, Universal Music Group) – a live album, in a trio with Robert Kubiszyn and Cezary Konrad UP! (2013, V-Records) – a production of an almost orchestral grandeur featuring Clarence Penn, Adam Pierończyk, Krzysztof herdzin, Henryk Mi¶kiewicz, Robert Kubiszyn and a symphonical nonet Celuloid (2015, V-Records) – a duet with Artur Lesicki presenting Polish film music in jazz arrangements, as well as the musicians’ own material. In the years 1993-2004 Marek Napiórkowski was a co-leader of Funky Groove, which has been nominated twice for The Electric Band of The Year by Jazz Forum magazine readers. During his sixteen-year-long co-operation with Anna Maria Jopek, Napiórkowski participated in her most prominent projects as the closest musical partner. Amongst those, especially worth pointing out are Pat Metheny & Anna Maria Jopek’s Upojenie and the pinnacle of this co-operation, a concert held under the same name in the Warsaw Congress Hall; ID and Jo&Co tours featuring Richard Bona, Mino Cinelu and Dhafer Youssef; a concert with Ivan Lins; Polanna project featuring Gonzalo Rubalcaba and Gil Goldstein; Sombremesa project (live) featuring lusophone musicians such as Yami, Marito Marquez and Joao Balao. In 2012 he accepted an invitation to Marcus Miller’s band featuring Angelique Kidjo. During Brussels Blues Festival, he played alongside a blues harmonica player Sugar Blue. He was Klaus Doldinger’s (Passport) guest at the concert in Berlin. He played a Polish tour with Adam Holzman. In Global Sound Project he shared the stage with a French jazz bassist Hadrien Feraud and American drummer Poogie Bell. In the summer of 2015 he was a guest of a unique event – Guitar Summit in Cracow ICE Congress Center. He played alongside an American guitar master John Abercrombie. He sat in a jury in the International Jarosław ¦mietana’s Guitar Competition, together with Mike Stern, John Amercrombie, Ed Cherry and Wojciech Karolak. As the co-producer and composer of almost all material, he has been accompanying Dorota Mi¶kiewicz. Napiórkowski has taken part in countless projects and recordings of artists such as: Tomasz Stańko, Henryk Mi¶kiewicz, Ewa Bem, Wojciech Karolak, Krzysztof ¦cierański, Janusz Muniak, Jan „Ptaszyn” Wróblewski, Tomasz Szukalski, Urszula Dudziak. Since 2010, he has been the host of Jazz Festival in Jelenia Góra. His solo projects feature musicians such as Tomasz Stańko, Leszek Możdżer, Stanisław Soyka and Anna Maria Jopek. He initiated an orchestral tribute to Dire Straits, working together with Kuba Badach, Krzysztof Herdzin and the leading Polish symphonic orchestras. He toured Japan, USA, Mexico, Brazil, Canada, Indonesia, China, Russia and most countries of Europe. |
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READ MORE About NAP, Wolno & KonKubiNap projects... More information about UP! project... CONTACT THE MANAGER: Marta Sołtys manager@mareknapiorkowski.com management@msmuse.pl phone: +48 602 101 760 
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