Krzysia Górniak
concert & festival offerKrzysia Górniak is one of the best jazz guitarists in Europe, a composer, producer and arranger. Gifted with an extraordinary artistic personality, she has been performing on festival and club stages in Poland and abroad for many years, as well as in philharmonics and music theaters, including in Austria, France, Germany, Greece and Slovenia. Her way of playing is a combination of virtuosity with subtle femininity, she finds herself in many musical styles, freely navigating in various conventions. He collaborates with jazz and folk musicians, and also plays with symphony orchestras and string quartets. She is a graduate of the University of Music and Dramatic Art in Graz (Austria) in the jazz guitar class. In the plebiscite for 2018, the readers of the Jazz Forum monthly placed Krzysia Górniak among the 10 best Polish jazz guitarists. She has released 6 original albums.
Pat Metheny wrote about her album Tales: “I have been listening to your CD – and you all sound really good on there! Nice blend between you and I think it is great that you seem to be working hard on trying to get your own group sound and concept happening! “
Krzysia Górniak and his band present the subtle and original face of jazz, create illustrative music, saturated with emotions, inspire reflection, these are musical images of memories and fragments of life captured in sounds. The band’s concerts are unique both on the Polish and foreign music market, thanks to the artist’s delicacy and femininity, combined with her extraordinary proficiency and virtuosity, and the outstanding skills of other musicians.
Artist’s projects:
Krzysia Górniak Quartet presents the repertoire from the album “Memories”:
Krzysia Górniak – guitar, Piotr Wrombel – piano, Michał Jaros – double bass, Marcin Jahr – drums
Krzysia Górniak Trio presents the repertoire from the album “Memories”, “Moments”, “Feelings”:
Krzysia Górniak – guitar, Łukasz Makowski – electric double bass, bass guitar, Marcin Jahr – drums
Astrolabe – Krzysia Gorniak & Rui Teles present oryginal & Portuguese songs astrolabe.band
Krzysia Górniak & Maciej Miecznikowski “Tribute to Nat King Cole” presents the repertoire from the album “Tribute to Nat King Cole”, possible line-ups are a duo, a quartet, a quartet with a string quartet and a quartet with the accompaniment of a string orchestra.
Concerts
The duration of the concert by Krzysi Górniak is usually one set from 60 to 90 minutes – possibly divided into two sets of 45 minutes. Musicians perform on large festival and concert stages, in philharmonics and theaters, in jazz clubs and café clubs, as well as at private parties and cultural events.