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MUSICIANS - PIOTR MAJCZYNA
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Piotr Majczyna, the multinstrumentalist, singer and many-years standing ethnic music madcap, formally a law faculty graduate, is a co-founder and artistic director of Čači Vorba. As a teenager he got his first informations about folk music by building self-invented primitive radio waves equalizers to catch Romanian, Serbian and Greek stations by nights. Today, to save all those troubles to the others, he popularizes Balkan music on a local radio air. |
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PIOTR MAJCZYNA - guitar, bouzouki, mandola, cobza, śpiew
The musician comes from Eastern-Polish Podlasie region, the muticultural Bug river borderland where Western and Eastern Christianity cross each other, the land of forgotten Tatar mizars (muslim cemeteries) and relicts of the past large Jewish community. Piotr Majczyna, for 10 years connected with the folk société of Lublin is also a member of St.Nicolas Orchestra. He formed medieval music band Odpust Zupełny (2003-2008) and Polish-Iranian Jahiar Group (2005 - 2006). His artistic works consist of 6 official CD albums, more than 300 hundread concerts in 10 countries and a few prestigeous awards. He's a double-laureate of Polish Radio Folk Contest «Nowa Tradycja» (2004 - Grand Prix with Odpust Zupełny, 2006 - 2nd degree pize with Čači Vorba). His «Huculskie Muzyki» CD album, recorded with St.Nicolas Orchestra and the authentic village band of Roman Kumłyk, claimed the king of Hucul music from Ukrainian Carpathians, has been chosen «the folk CD of the year» by internet voters of «Wirtualne Gęśle» contest in 2007. In December 2008 Piotr Majczyna has been hnoured by the President of Lublin Prize for the achievements in artistic creation, dissemination and protection of cultural goods.Piotr is an author of many musical arrangements and compositions inspired by traditional music. As an instrumentalist he specialises in several string instruments. His performing interests go far beyond stylistics of concrete regions, that his instruments come from. During last few years he has developed his own style of mandola playing, based of rhytm and melodic structures of Romanian dulcimer. Discography of Piotr Majczyna:
- Čači Vorba - Szczera Mowa - Red Taboret 2008 |
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