Marcin Masecki Trio Boleros y más

Marcin Masecki (piano, vocals), Max Mucha (double bass), Jerzy Rogiewicz (drums)

Born in Poland in 1982, Masecki began learning music at only 3 years of age with his father, a clarinet player and teacher. Having received classical music education at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music (Warsaw), he later went on to study at Berklee College of Music (Boston), where he graduated in 2002. Marcin Masecki is one of Poland’s most prolific and reputed musicians. Winner of numerous awards, he plays keyboard instruments, sings, composes for film and theatre, produces festivals, conducts orchestras, teaches, records and organises musical events. His projects cover a vast range of styles which he merges with virtuous skill, blurring the lines between classical or “cult” music and light or “pop” music.

His most recent project, Boleros y más (2023), explores Latin American music, close to his heart for having spent his childhood in Colombia. But his frenzied artistic activity doesn’t stop there; Masecki co-directs the Jazz Band Młynarski-Masecki, a stylish ensemble dedicated to the Polish Jazz of the 20s and 30s. He is well known for performing a modern and critically acclaimed version of Ragtime; in classical music he works alone, with chamber groups and orchestras as a performer and conductor; he presents a variety of concert seasons in Warsaw, where he often combines music with informal talks on the subject of history; he is a member of the Ensemble Festival, where he gives a master class on improvisation every summer; and, to boot, he directs the Jazz trio set to delight us with their music at the 59th Jazzaldia, where he will be accompanied by Jerzy Rogiewicz on the drums and Max Mucha on the double bass.

As a classical music composer, in 2023 he released a symphony poem with the NFM Wrocław Philharmonic, going by the name of “There are Three Polonaises in the Goldberg Variations”, an exploration of the connections between Bach’s masterpiece and Polish dance. He has written 3 symphonies and a concert for piano to date.

At the end of the day, Marcin Masecki is one of today’s foremost Polish musicians, a passionate artist with an enormous personality and the ability to express himself in different musical styles and formats.