Smietana won the Polish Music Award "Fryderyk" in 1998.
He has composed nearly 200 songs and was the leader of three musical
groups – Sounds, Symphonic Sound Orchestra, and Polish Jazz Stars Band,
which gathers top Polish jazz musicians. He also is a co-leader of the
very famous Namyslowski-Smietana Quartet.
Throughout his
musical career he has played with various great artists, such as Art
Farmer, Freddie Hubbard, Eddie Henderson, Joe Zawinul, Gary Bartz, and
Carter Jefferson.
Smietana will be joined by three other
Polish musicians in Hanoi , drummer Adam Czerwinski, pianist and
keyboardist Seb Bernatowicz, and bass guitarist Tomasz Kupiec.
Czerwinski, who graduated from a music school in Gdansk , has been
one of the best Polish jazz drummers for over 15 years. He has been
involved with many major Polish jazz groups, and became a member of
Smietana's group in 1991.
Bernatowicz graduated from the
Cracow Academy of Music and works as a composer and arranger as well as a
pianist and keyboardist. He is the leader of some popular jazz groups
in his country, including Seb Bernatowicz Trio, Jazz fusion Eastcom, and
Jazzelectric.
The prize-winning bass guitarist, Kupiec,
has collaborated with some distinguished European jazz musicians like
violinists Vadim Brodzki and Nigel Kennedy.
The quartet
will perform 11 repertoires at the concert, three of which were written
by Smietana. His compositions include Kite Dance, My Love and
Inspiration, and Mr Soul.
The concert will also feature compositions by Frederic Chopin and other Polish composers.
Before the concert at the Opera House, the quartet will perform for a
limited audience at the Latino Bar in the Melia Hanoi Hotel on Nov. 16.
Organised by the Polish Embassy in Vietnam , the concert is to
celebrate the 92nd anniversary of the Polish Independence Day and
Chopin's 200th birthday./.
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