Authors
Adam Bałdych
Jazz violinist and composer. Already in his teens, he attracted attention with the extraordinary potential of his musical talent. Having graduated with an honours degree from Henryk Gembalski’s class at the Katowice Academy of Music, he obtained a scholarship to study at Berklee College of Music. He has played with such leading representatives of the jazz, classical and popular music scenes as Jim Beard, Lars Danielsson, Nils Landgren, Billy Cobham, Iiro Rantala, Urszula Dudziak, Grażyna Auguścik, Leszek Możdżer, Marius Neset, Verneri Pohjola, Jacob Karlzon, Joachim Kühn, Agata Zubel, Cezary Duchnowski, Paweł Hendrich, Andrzej Bauer, Mika Urbaniak, and others.
Bałdych has given performances throughout Europe, in South Korea, China, Japan, the United States, Canada, Azerbaijan, and Indonesia, as well as at such prestigious festivals as Montreux Jazz Festival, London Jazz Festival, Jazz Jamboree, Jazz on the Odra, Warsaw Summer Jazz Days, and Jazz Baltica. He is internationally critically acclaimed for the freshness of approach and virtuosic technique tinged with emotional intensity.
He appears on nearly twenty albums. The latest of them are Passacaglia (2024, recorded in a duet with Leszek Możdżer), and albums recorded with the Adam Bałdych Quintet: Legend (2022, with original music inspired by the works of Henryk Wieniawski, performed with guest violinist Agata Szymczewska), and Poetry (2021, with the outstanding Italian trumpeter Paolo Fresu).
In 2023 he launched his own record label, Imaginary Music. Adam Bałdych has also written classical compositions commissioned by the Baltic Neopolis Orchestra, Ensemble OMN, AUKSO – Chamber Orchestra of the City of Tychy, the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Stuttgart Kammerorchester, and PWM Edition.
His accolades include: the Grand Prix of Jazz on the Odra festival, BWM Welt Jazz Award, as well as Polish state decorations: the Gold Cross of Merit, the Decoration of Honour ‘Meritorious for Polish Culture’, and the Bronze Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis.
Bałdych has given performances throughout Europe, in South Korea, China, Japan, the United States, Canada, Azerbaijan, and Indonesia, as well as at such prestigious festivals as Montreux Jazz Festival, London Jazz Festival, Jazz Jamboree, Jazz on the Odra, Warsaw Summer Jazz Days, and Jazz Baltica. He is internationally critically acclaimed for the freshness of approach and virtuosic technique tinged with emotional intensity.
He appears on nearly twenty albums. The latest of them are Passacaglia (2024, recorded in a duet with Leszek Możdżer), and albums recorded with the Adam Bałdych Quintet: Legend (2022, with original music inspired by the works of Henryk Wieniawski, performed with guest violinist Agata Szymczewska), and Poetry (2021, with the outstanding Italian trumpeter Paolo Fresu).
In 2023 he launched his own record label, Imaginary Music. Adam Bałdych has also written classical compositions commissioned by the Baltic Neopolis Orchestra, Ensemble OMN, AUKSO – Chamber Orchestra of the City of Tychy, the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Stuttgart Kammerorchester, and PWM Edition.
His accolades include: the Grand Prix of Jazz on the Odra festival, BWM Welt Jazz Award, as well as Polish state decorations: the Gold Cross of Merit, the Decoration of Honour ‘Meritorious for Polish Culture’, and the Bronze Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis.
