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CH&K&K
Ch&K&K appeared first time in May 1998 at the Hasior Gallery in Zakopane and later at the Szünetjel Improvised Music Festival in MU Theatre in Budapest, at the Bücklein Theatre in Cracow, at the 29th Festival International des Musique et Creations Electroacoustiques "Synthese '99" in Bourges, at the Wizya Atelier in Paris, at The Tenth Annual Festival in Experimental Intermedia in New York, at the Ilkhom XX Festival in Tashkent, at Alternativa Festival in Moscow, at the 1st Interaction Festival in Piotrków Trybunalski, in Warsaw at the Warsaw Music Meetings, at “europertrain” project in Cracow, at the Meetings with the XXth Century’s Music in Cracow, at the Next 2000 Festival in Bratislava, at Polish Avantagarde Art „In –between/Poland now” in Chicago, in Alma-Ata, at the Saison Polonaise en France in Mains D’oeuvres in Paris, at the Moving Closer Festival in Warsaw and others. |
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Marek Choloniewski
(born 1953, Cracow)
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Wlodzimierz Kiniorski
(born 1952, Zagnansk)
composer, saxophonist, multiinstrumentalist. He won several competitions as a soloist and the member of many groups on many competitions (e.g. Jazz nad Odra, Jazz Juniors, Krzysztof Komeda competition). He made many recordings and played with Norman Grant, Sony Robertson, Twinkle Brothers, Trebunie Tutki and Kinior Orchestra, Young Power, Free Cooperation, PAFF, Izrael, The Break. He wrote music for film ("Zdzislaw Beksinski", "Dalaj Lama", "Andrzej Strumillo"). He is author of many multimedia projects (with Krzysztof Knittel, Marcin Krzyzanowski, Piotr Bikont, Marek Choloniewski and Pawel Dudzinski. He cooperates with Witkiewicz Theatre in Zakopane, Theatre "Klinika Lalek", Powszechny Theatre in Lodz, Bucklein Theatre in Cracow. Currently he is playing concerts with KI-NO (Kiniorski - Nowakowski), Mamadou Diouf and Kinior Orchestra, Izrael, Plastic Bag, Graal. |
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Krzysztof Knittel
(born 1947, Warsaw)
Studied sound engineering and composition at the Frederic Chopin State Higher School of Music in Warsaw with Tadeusz Baird, Andrzej Dobrowolski and Włodzimierz Kotoński. He has worked at the Experimental Studio of Polish Radio since 1973 and at the Center for the Creative and Performing Arts at State University of New York at Buffalo in 1978. He composes symphonic, chamber, stage, electro-acoustic and computer works that have been performed in most European countries, Asia, North and South Americas. He took part in many art performances, built sound installations and played in improvised music groups. His compositions were written for the National Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir, National Symphony Orchestra of the Polish Radio, “Amadeus” Chamber Orchestra of the Polish Radio, Sinfonia Varsovia Orchestra, Baltic Opera in Gdansk, Camerata Silesia Choir and for soloists – Elisabeth Chojnacka, Olga Pasichnyk (Critics’ Prize at the Warsaw Autumn Festival for her performance in “The Heartpiece – Double Opera” composed together with John King), Janusz Olejniczak, Tomasz Stanko and many others. Concerts dedicated exclusively to his music were held in Barcelona, Budapest, Cracow, Kromeriz, Leipzig, Moscow, New York, Sao Paulo, Warsaw. Co-founder of the KEW Composers Group (1973-75, with Elisabeth Sikora and Wojciech Michniewski), Cytula Tyfun da Bamba Orchester (1981), the Independent Electroacoustic Music Studio (1982-84), interdisciplinary group Freight Train (existing from 1986 till today), the European Improvisation Orchestra (1996-98), CH&K&K (since 1999, with Marek Choloniewski and Wlodzimierz Kiniorski), Mad Cavaliers (since 2003). Among his honors are the Solidarity Award in Music (1985), Norwid Price in Music (2003), Polish Composers' Union Prize (2003). In 2005 he was awarded by Polish Minister of Culture with “Gloria Artis” Silver Medal. He was also awarded by the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts in New York (1998). He served as director of the International Festival of Contemporary Music "Warsaw Autumn" (1995-98), president of the Polish Composers' Union (1999-2003), vice-president of the Polish Music Council (since 2000) and president (2005-2017). Director of international Ad Libitum festival of improvised music since 2006. Professor of the Fryderyk Chopin Music University. He has worked in improvised music groups with such musicians as Andrzej Bauer, Franziska Baumann, Jeff Beer, Ed Bogaard, Marek Chołoniewski, Tomek Chołoniewski, Axel Dörner, Uwe Dierksen, Uli Fusseneger, Tim Hodgkinson, Carl-Ludwig Hübsch, Pere Oliver Jørgens, John King, Włodzimierz Kiniorski, Martin Klapper, Jacek Kochan, Werner Kodytek, Jerzy Kornowicz, Alexey Kruglov, Ryszard Latecki, Mieczysław Litwiński, Albert Markos, Laszlo Melis, Marek Mietelski, Ernesto Molinari, David Moss, Victor Nubla, Uwe Oberg, Paolo Pandolfo, Olga Pasichnyk, Zdzisław Piernik, Adam Pierończyk, Jan Pilch, Andrzej Przybielski, Kazimierz Pyzik, Andrey Smirnov, Tomasz Stańko, Tadeusz Sudnik, Raymond Strid, Birgit Ulher, Wojciech Waglewski, Marcus Weiss, Tadeusz Wielecki, Frank Wingold, Niels Winther, Yuriy Yaremchuk, Carlos Zingaro, Agata Zubel. . |