Michał Górczyński

He is a trained clarinet player. Last year he graduated the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music. In 1998 together with “Michal Górczynski Trio” he was awarded a prize at the first folk music festival “Nowa Tradycja” and had the opportunity to make recordings for the archives of Polish Radio. He also recorded a radio programme for Polish Radio 2. In these years he cooperated with many persons involved in the theatre world (Pawel Mykietyn, Lech Jankowski, Magdalena Smalara, Artur Lis and his “Teatr Plastyczny Makata”, Marcin Wrona) and the world of classical music (performance at Warsaw Autumn conducted by Jacek Kasprzyk, peformance with Polish Radio orchestra conducted by Jerzy Maksymiuk, performances with many conductors cooperating with Warsaw Academy of Music Orchestra). He cooperated with persons involved in vanguard music and performance art (Mikolaj Trzaska, Peter Kowald, Andrzej Izdebski, Michal Gos, Zdzislaw Piernik, Marek “Rogulus” Rogulski, Marek Zygmunt, Janusz Smyk, Mariusz Maciejewski, Janusz Baldyga, Pola Dwurnik, Anna Baumgard). He have recorded three albums: Boys Band Trio “Curvatura Grande”, 2000; Pink Freud “Zawijasy”, 2000; Górczynski / Piernik, 2001. With Boys Band Trio, in which he plays tenor saxophone and do performance, I twice toured Russia in 2001 and 2002 (tours were organised by Sacha Cheparuchin, the manager of Hun Huur Tu). He played in yaroslav, Petersburg and Moscow. Since 1998 he has developed the idea of “survival performance” based on the “Energistic Manifest”. I implement this idea by my activity as a performer (festivals: Gdynia Summer Jazz Days, “Zadlo”, galleries “Spiz 7”, “Eufemia”, Dom Plastyka”, “Kotlownia”) and an author of educational projects (he graduated the intercollegiate Pedagogical College, he teach, he attend musicotherapy training). He works on the developmnet of his theories (publications in “Heksis”, “Cogito”, Utforum”). Currently he is writing music to texts by Itzig Manger a Jewish poet writing in yiddish. He will also continue his cooperation with folk musicians (music to kurpian poetry for an ensemble of bass clarinet, violin, bagpipe).

These are some of my projects from the years 1998-2002:

1.The “Malowanie” ensemble. Music inspired by polish folk music. Recording made in 2001 in the Academy of Music in Warsaw. Words and music by Michal Górczynski.
Barbara Wronska – vocals
Przemyslaw Marcyniak – flute
Przemyslaw Danowski – oboe
Michal Górczynski – clarinet
Andrzej Szczesniewski – bassoon
Jan Smoczynski – tambourine

2.The “Malowanie” ensemble. Various inspirations. Recording made in 2000 in Polish Radio?s S1 Concert Studio at “New Tradition” festival.
Barbara Wronska – vocals
Urszula Golebiowska – oboe
Anna Kalska – clarinet
Michal Górczynski – clarinet
Arkadiusz Adamczyk – bassoon
Tomasz Januchta – double-bass

3.The “Malowanie” ensemble. Recording made in 2000 in Polish Radio?s S1 Concert Studio at “New Tradition” festival.
Barbara Wronska – vocals
Przemyslaw Marcyniak – flute
Przemyslaw Danowski – oboe
Michal Górczynski – clarinet
Andrzej Szczesniewski – bassoon

4.”Trio Michala Górczynskiego”. Music inspired by Jewish music. Recording made in 1998 for the archives of Polish Radio.
– Mateusz Szczepkowski – violin