KRAKÓW JAZZ WEEK, JAZZ JUNIORS
Schedule
Mon Sep 30 2024 at 04:00 pm to Thu Oct 03 2024 at 11:59 pm
Location
Cricoteka | Krakow, MA
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JAZZ JUNIORS / COMPETITION 30 SeptemberDirectly after the 6th Seifert Competition winners have been announced, auditions for this year’s Jazz Juniors Competition will follow. The latter, Kraków-based event has attracted young jazz performers for nearly half a century, frequently introducing its audience to new talents that were later applauded on prestigious concert stages at home and abroad. Notably, the very fact of participation in the Jazz Juniors finals paves the way for the young contestants to performing at major European festivals, in venues and on tours worldwide. What counts most is thus the chance to meet and establish international and intergenerational contacts within the global jazz community. The element of rivalry itself being largely a convention, the event will nevertheless surely stir up plenty of emotions. Importantly. Kraków Jazz Week is not exclusively a set of two competitions for young music interpreters and improvisers. There will also be a concert series programmed by one of the most innovative artists in the European jazz scene – Nils Petter Molvaer, who as of this year holds the post of Jazz Juniors Festival’s artistic director.
FINALISTS:
Vincent Meißner Trio (Germany), Cyryl Lewczuk Quartet (PL), Reboot The Mood (Germany), Adam Baran & Helicopets (PL), Blu/Bry (PL), and one soloist: Zbigniew Chojnacki (PL)
JAZZ JUNIORS / FESTIVAL 1 October– 3 October 2024
2024 marks a special caesura for the Jazz Juniors Festival, which is now becoming an international event not only with respect to artists featuring in the concert programmes, but also in the broader context of organisation. This change is owing to Nils Petter Molvaer taking over as artistic director and artist-in-residence. Extremely distinctive in his programming, Molvaer focuses first and foremost on experienced artists with well-established reputation as performers who, however, have not lost their youthful need to explore varied musical fields. This year’s programme thus features no jazz musicians in the strict and narrow sense of the term. Instead, the festival’s focus shifts to those who daringly move between genres and for whom jazz is an integral part of the creative process rather than a limited set of tools and intransgressible principles.
Molvaer’s programming reflects the questing spirit of the festival, which aims at building a network of interconnections and promoting daring creative artistic choices rather than merely ensuring a sold-out auditorium. Such an approach is a logical continuation of the festival’s long-time programming choices and matches the concept of our annual competition. The contestants who enter it can gain much in terms of facilitating young musicians’ wise artistic development, which counts for more than mere rivalry. Though prizes are important, the uniqueness of the Jazz Juniors Competition lies in another sphere. Several participants are awarded, but none of the contestants is left unnoticed and all receive kind attention that helps them spread their wings.
1 October 2024, 19.00 (Tuesday), Cricoteka (ul. Nadwiślańska 2-4):
Hinode Tapes
HOLSEN & CASSIERS
2 October 2024, 19.00 (Wednesday), Cricoteka (ul. Nadwiślańska 2-4):
Szymon Mika/ Marta Wajdzik Music / Arthur Hnatek
Anna Anderluh TRIO
3 October 2024, 19.00 (Thursday), Cricoteka (ul. Nadwiślańska 2-4):
Natalia Kordiak Music QUINTET
Nils Petter Molvaer TRIO
3 October 2024, 23.00 (Thursday), Hevre (ul. Meisselsa 18)
Vingborg/Valencia
Tickets available here:
https://bit.ly/JazzJuniors24
Event organisers:
The Zbigniew Seifert Foundation
Film and Jazz Music Foundation
Co-organisers and partners:
CRICOTEKA Centre for the Documentation of the Art of Tadeusz Kantor, Instytut Adama Mickiewicza / Co-financed by the Ministerstwo Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego
The project has been co-financed from the funds of the Municipality of Cracow.
Co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, from the Culture Promotion Fund, as part of the ‘Muzyka’ programme implemented by Narodowy Instytut Muzyki i Tańca.
Co-financed by the Stowarzyszenie Autorów ZAiKS.
Held under the patronage of Institut Français en Pologne, Warsaw branch.
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Where is it happening?
Cricoteka, ulica Nadwiślańska 2, 30-527 Kraków, Polska,Kraków, Poland, KrakowEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
