Wykładowcy LAK 2019

Kazimierz Cyna started his music education playing piano. He graduated from Secondary Music School in Jelenia Gora in double bass class by Janusz Buszynski. He played two years horn in military orchestra.

Kazimierz Cyna studied double bass in the Academy of Music in Wroclaw under prof. Irena Olkiewicz . In the same time he was playing in the Wroclaw Philharmonic Orchestra and in the Wroclaw Opera Orchestra.

From 1991 he is working as a teacher in Secondary Music School in Jelenia Gora. He was principal of double bass group in Lower Silesia Philharmonic in Jelenia Gora more then last 20 years. He participates in all recordings of the Philharmonic orchestra and in many artistic concert tours around the Europe.

From 2003 year he is playing in Jelenia Gora City Brass Orchestra as a  percussionist.

He started co-operation in Double Bass Quartet “Bassiona Polacca” in 2006.

He was one of creators of the Polish Double Bass Society in Wroclaw where he is a vice president actually.

In 1993 Kazimierz Cyna was assigned as a “Deserved Culture Creator” admitted by Culture and Art Minister. In the year 2004 he received “Bronze Medal” for culture promotion and Lower Silesia Marshal Medal “Deserved for Lower Silesia Region” in 2014. He plays double bass made by master Ernst Liebisch.

Kazimierz’s hobby is CB amateur radio (he is working with call sign SQ6FHW) and old cars. He owns truck GAZ-51 from 1955.

Jazz musician, composer, co-founder of the Dżamble ensemble, luthier
A graduate of the double bass class of prof. Richard Dauna. From 1966, he was associated with the Cracow jazz club Helikon. Participant of jazz festivals: Jazz Jamboree in 1969, 1984 and 1985. Jazz on the Odra in 1969 and 1971. Festival of Polish Song in Opole in 1969 and 1978. 1973 - trip to the USA - consultations with Rufus Ried, an outstanding American jazz double bassist. He cooperated, among others with the following music bands and artists: Skaldowie, Marek Grechuta and Anawa, Maanam Kory Jackowska, Maryla Rodowicz, Irena Jarocka, Zbigniew Wodecki, Andrzej Zaucha In 2016, he founded the jazz quartet Marian Pawlik Quartet
Discography: Author's albums 1970 - Dżamble, A Cry for the Sun over the World 1984 - Beale Street Band,
1989 - Swing Orchestra Cracow, 2017 - Dżamble, Everyone dreams, everyone sleeps, 2018 - Marian Pawlik Quartet, Old Line Bass, Guest recordings: 1968 - Skaldowie, recording for the movie Kulig, 1971 - Marek Grechuta and Anawa, Korowod, 1979 - Maanam's first recordings I Need  Nothing but  the Blue Sky, Hamlet and Blues Kory, He was honored with an honorary badge for the ZSSP student clubs. Since 1985, he has been involved in double bass  making, the construction of double bass and jazz guitars. By 2018, Marian Pawlik has built 32 double basses, most of them are playing in Polish and European symphonic orchestras.

Yi Song is a Double Bass Professor at the Central Conservatory of Music and the Middle School of the Central Conservatory of Music Beijing, China . He also is the China representative at the Royal Northern College of Music . He studied with the Double Bass Principal Xu Hao Zhang of Harbin Symphony Orchestra and Professor Fu Da of the Central Conservatory of Music Beijing, and also he studied with Jiri Hudec the Principal Double Bass of Czech Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra. Yi Song has had a very successful career as a bass Professor in China. He conduct master classes through whole China and many other countries . In 1994, he started his teaching career at the Central Conservatory of Music in China . He has successfully performed many solo recitals and received special recognition for his 2004 recital in the Royal Northern College of Music. As a performer, Yi Song recorded many CDs in different genres and is active in many major orchestras in China. In 2005, he produced a set of Double Bass teaching guide 4 Vcds to help the double bass education in China. In 2006, he set up a Web site as a communication platform for bass teachers and students all over China. In recent years, Yi Song’s students have received outstanding successes in international double bass competitions in Ludwigslust (Germany), Brno (Czech Republic) and USA .

Born in Skopje, Macedonia, since 2010, Gjorgji is the Principal Double bass player with Malta Philharmonic Orchestra.
He has finished his undergraduate and postgraduate studies with full honors, in the class of Prof. Jiri Hudec, at the prestigious RNCM, Manchester, UK and since has performed with some of the most prestigious and world leading orchestras as well as collaborating with some of the leading musicians of today. Gjorgji has taken part in many prestigious festivals around the world and apart from being an active solo performer and working at the Malta Philharmonic, he has continued with his educational work and has held numerous master classes and workshops in UK, Germany, France, Latvia, Cuba, Italy, China and Malta.
In his constant strive into enriching the double bass repertoire, he has done many successful transcriptions for the double bass, some of which have been awarded, including J. S. Bach "Goldberg Variation", S. Rachmaninov” , Elegy Op.3 No.1” J. Brahms Piano Trio in Op.8, D. Popper “Requiem” Op. 66 for three cellos and piano, H. Casadesus “ Concerto in the style of J.C. Bach” and others.
Some of these transcriptions have been lately published by Hofmeister Editions and being distributed and sold worldwide.
His most recent recording from his own transcription from J.S. Bach “ Goldberg Variations” for string trio has been hailed and described by music critics and music scholars as  “astonishing successful effort that will leave mark in the world music history” and as “music to the music lovers for the benefit of their souls”.
In the end of Summer 2016 is coming out his second recording “Macedonian Capriccio” exclusively performing pieces for unaccompanied double bass.
Since 2014 Gjorgji Cincievski has become artist to be endorser by Pirastro Strings.

He comes from Havana, where he was born and lived for twenty years. He is connected with music from an early age, his adventure with double bass started in age of 12 and to this day it is leading the way in his life. Graduate of one of the most famous on Cuba, Guillermo Thomas Bouffartigues Music Conservatory in Havana. At present he is a student of Karol Lipiński Music Academy in Wrocław in a double bass class of Dr hab. Irena Olkiewicz. He improved his playing in master classes of Roman Patkolo, Miloslav Gajdoš and  Miloslav Jelinek. In his school years he belonged to the choir  „Coro Azul”, with whom he took a part in many festivals and competitions like, inter alia, „Cantorias Nacional¨ and performed in the Carlos Marx Theater. Former member of symphony orchestra with which he participated in National Symphony Orchestra Festival. When he was 13 he founded his first jazz band with which he took part in, inter alia, Jazz Competition “Jojazz”, “Jazz Plaza” Festival and others. He performed with Guillermo Tomas Youth Symphony Orchestra and Chamber. He had the honor to cooperate with Wynton Marsalis, Cool and the Gang, Klazz Brothers & Cuba Percussion, Bobby Carcasses and Afrojazz, Michel Herrera and Jovenjazz, Jadasni Portillo and Cause, Emir Santacruz, Ernesto Camilo and Saxofilia. He had the chance to perform at musical events conducted by Tomasz Bugaj, Marek Pijarowski, Jacek Rogala, Tadeusz Zathey. He is performing many concerts in Europe with Cuba Percussion & Friends feat. Yaqueline Castellanos group, in Poland he is playing with Rey Ceballo and Tripulacion Cubana and The Cuban Latin Jazz.

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