KRZYSZTOF GRADZIUK - DRUMMER
Graduated from the Jazz Institute at Academy of Music in Katowice (Poland) in 2005. In 2003 he received a scholarship Hochschule fur Musik und Theater in Leipzig (Germany). In 2004 he attended Summer Jazz Workshops in Lousville (USA), being taught by John Riley and Steve Davis. In 2004 he was awarded by Minister of Culture and Art with a scholarship. He is a member of trio RGG (Raminiak- Garbowski- Gradziuk) and Maciej Obara Quartet.He is also a teacher in Jazz Institute at Academy of Music in Katowice(part time studies) and Music School Bednarska in Warsaw.
Prizes received so far:
- 1st prize at Jazz Meetings in Sieradz (Poland) in 2002 with RGG
- Grand Prix at Jazz Blizzard Festival in Bielsko-Biala in 2003(Poland) with RGG
- 2nd prize and Audience Prize at XXVII International Jazz Festival in Getxo (Spain) in 2003 with RGG
- A KEY TO CAREER - Prize at Pomerania Jazz Festival in 2003 with RGG
- 2nd prize at Crocus Jazz Festival in Jelenia Gora in 2004 with RGG
- 3rd prize at International Jazz Competition "Jazz Juniors" in Cracow in 2002 with FAKIMOZO QUINTET
-3rd prize at Crocus Jazz Festival in Jelenia Gora in 2005 with Maciej Obara Trio
-Grand Prix at Junior Jazz Festival in Usti(Czech Republic) with TRIO "IN SPACE"
-Grand Prix at Jazz Blizzard Festival in Bielsko-Biala in 2007(Poland) with Maciej Obara Trio
CDs published with RGG:
"Scandinavia" (2003),
"Straight Story" (2004),
"Unfinished Story - Remembering Kosz" (2007), - ALBUM OF THE YEAR - RZECZPOSPOLITA AND JAZZ RADIO
"True Story - In Two Acts" (2009),
"One" (2011)
CDs published with other artists:
"Message from Ohayo" with Maciej Obara Trio
"I can do it" with Maciej Obara Trio
"Still i Rise" with Anna Gadt
"Maya" with Wierba & Schmidt Quintet
"Hope for Tomorrow" with Daniel Popilakiewicz
"Things never done" with Maciek Grzywacz Quartet
"Village time" with Piotr Lemanczyk Quartet
"Kaczmarski & Jazz" with Sadowska,Szrom,Serafinska
"Cieplo- zimno" and "Gadu- gadu" with Anna Serafinska
"Mauriolanza" with Mariusz Orzelowski
Cooperation with such musicians as:
Piotr Wojtasik, Maciej Sikala, Piotr Lemanczyk, Anna Serafinska, Maciej Grzywacz, Bernard Maseli,Tomasz Stanko
Also he performed with:
Thomas Gustafsson, Antoine Roney, Avishai Cohen, Jakob Dinesen, Frank Lacy, Jan Ptaszyn Wroblewski, Zbigniew Namyslowski, Kuba Stankiewicz, Maciek Sikala, Jacek Niedziela, Wojtek Niedziela, Mariusz Bogdanowicz, Grzegorz Nagorski, Adam Pieronczyk,Jaroslaw Smietana
