13 November 2017 (Monday) 7pm

Adam Strug (Warszawa)

“Leśmian”

Academy of Music, ul. Żubardzka 2

Szczepan Pospieszalski — trumpet
Hipolit Woźniak — bouzouki
Mateusz Kowlaski — double bass
Wojciech Lubertowicz — drums
Adam Strug — vocal, accordion

phot. Jacek Poremba

Adam Strug

Adam Strug is a singer and instrumentalist, a poet and a theatre music composer, script writer for documentaries, front man of a music formation that presents his own songs. He deals mainly with vocal art but does not stay away from purely instrumental forms. His songs are sung by Stanisław Soyka, Wojciech Waglewski, Mieczysław Szcześniak, Janusz Prusinowski Trio and other folk groups.

He founded a singing band “Monodia Polska” which presents Polish songs passed on from generation to generation. Strug himself writes that Polish music is “the most beautiful in the world and on top everything, it’s ours”. He finds baroque monastery and court scores in folk music, which simple folk thought to be theirs once and the elements that they added to it did not at all take away its nobility.

As a child he attended music school where he learnt to play the accordion. He never completed it, though because he noticed that “the further it gets from school, the more often he’d reach out for the instrument”. In 1986 he was awarded the 1st prize at Olsztyn Castle Meetings “Śpiewajmy poezję” for his arrangements of K. I. Gałczyński’s poems. He celebrated his triumphs at festivals in Krakow, Wrocław and Warsaw. For 8 years he was learning traditional songs under the supervision of Wincenty Nasiadko, a funeral singer from off Łomża, trying to protect them from falling into oblivion.

At the jubilee concert of the Logos Theatre, Adam Strug is going to present his project “Leśmian”. The programme comes from an album recorded in 2014 together with Stanisław Soyka.