Sławek Jaskułke Explained

Sławek Jaskułke
Background:non_vocal_instrumentalist
Birth Name:Sławomir Jaskułke
Birth Place:Puck, Poland
Birth Date:2 January 1979
Genre:Jazz
Occupation:Musician, composer, arranger, record producer
Instrument:Piano
Associated Acts:Zbigniew Namysłowski Quintet

Sławek Jaskułke (born 2 January 1979) is a Polish pianist, composer and bandleader. He is also an arranger, record producer, and a member of Zbigniew Namysłowski Quintet. He has composed piano, orchestra, theatre, and film music.[1] [2]

Career

Jaskułke has performed at Carnegie Hall in New York City, Symphony Hall in Chicago, Munich Philharmonic, and the Moscow International Performing Arts Center, the North Sea Jazz Festival, Berlin Jazz Fest, Red Sea Jazz Festival, Padova Jazz Festival, Garana International Jazz Festival, and the Jazz Jamboree. He has performed in dozens of countries around the world and on almost all continents. In 2006 he represented Poland at the Music Beyond Borders Festival in Hong Kong, which resulted with recording an album Jaskułke – Hong Kong. In September 2010 he appeared at the World Expo in Shanghai, presenting a premiere of Jaskułke – Chopin for Five Pianos.

He has worked with Petr Cancura, Furio di Castri, Krzesimir Dębski, Urszula Dudziak, David Fiuczynski, L.U.C, Janusz Muniak, David Murray, Adam Pierończyk, Tomasz Szukalski, Tymon Tymanski, Michał Urbaniak, and Eric Vloeimans.

Among his most important awards are: Pegaz – Polish TV award for musical achievements, Jazz Oscar of Music Lovers Association in Łódź, he was a nominee for Fryderyk – Polish Phonographic Industry Award for Jazz Musician of the Year and Jazz Album of the Year for Jaskułke - Fill the Harmony Philharmonics with Cameral Orchestra Hanseatica.

Discography

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Sławek Jaskułke: "I'm still in the creative process.". Wyborcza. Marta Odziomek. 17 May 2019. 5 August 2019.
  2. Web site: Sławek Jaskułke Sextet - "Komeda Recomposed" [REVIEW]]. Kultura. 3 July 2018. Kaska Paluch. 5 August 2019.