Accordion Trio cooperated with Michael Nyman, Bobby McFerrin and Krzysztof Penderecki, will open Sib Jazz Fest
On 20th October Polish Motion Trio will open the program of the international festival Sib Jazz Fest in Novosibirsk. The ensemble performs on the best stages of the world, collaborating with musicians of world size, such as Michael Nyman, Bobby McFerrin and Krzysztof Penderecki.
On 20th October biggest jazz project of the Siberian region - the international festival Sib Jazz Fest - will be opened with the concert of Polish Motion Trio. Their performances attract full houses in New York's Carnegie Hall, London's Barbican Centre, the Konzerthaus in Vienna and in other prestigious venues in the world. They act in a program of prestigious festivals of widest subjects, their touring routes covered six continents and 39 countries. The musicians themselves admit: "We are equally interested in a heavy metal, and jazz, and contemporary music."
One of the most important pages in the work of the collective has been working with Michael Nyman - a world-renowned minimalist composer, who wrote the music for the films of Peter Greenaway. Motion Trio has released a collaborative album with Nyman, the musicians performed together many times, and the composer himself admitted that this cooperation has been one of the most exciting in his life.
Also the trio is marked with cooperation with the biggest Polish composer of twentieth century Krzysztof Penderecki, tenfold winner of Grammy Bobby McFerrin and other important musicians. The French edition Le Monde wrote about them: "The Trio of Polish accordionists scoff at all the habits and at traditional ways of playing the accordion and transfer the instrument into the future without any electronic effects."
Trio Motion performs mostly original compositions by its leader - Janusz Wojtarowicz - designed in the style from jazz to contemporary music. The festival Sib Jazz Fest will present a program they played at major jazz festivals worldwide.
The international festival Sib Jazz Fest will be held in Novosibirsk from 20 to 22 October. Its program has collected all the variety of genres of modern jazz. Among the stars of the Festival there are Tony Kofi Quartet (United Kingdom), Motion Trio (Poland), Amsterdam Klezmer Band (Netherlands), trio "Good Evening" (Russia), Stephan Belmondo Trio (France), Sylvia Howard (United States), the hip-Hopf jazz trio Sax Machine (France), Oleg Akkuratov (Russia). Together with the stars of the festival at the stage there are Philharmonic collectives: Vladimir Tolkachev Big Band and jazz orchestra "Siberian Dixieland". The motto of the festival Sib Jazz Fest is «There is jazz in each of us. Listen to your own!"
The project will be held for the sixth time and for the second time at the new Philharmonic hall – Arnold Kats State Concert Hall, both at the main stage and at jazz loft. First time in the history of the Festival in most concerts sound engineers from abroad will work at audio remote control, among them there will be Andreas Adelhofer, who is marked by the cooperation with such stars as Joe Cocker, ZZ Top and Backstreet Boys.
The organizer of the festival is Novosibirsk State Philharmonic Society. Partners of the festival are VTB24, public company Moscow Exchange, jazz club "Truba". Motion Trio concert is supported by Polish Culture Centre in Moscow and Ltd "Bella Siberia" (cosmetics and hygiene products for the whole family).