Adam Makowicz

Adam MakowiczAdam Makowicz – is a living legend not only of the Polish jazz scene, a real piano veteran. He took his first steps alongside the best. In 1962, with Tomasz Stańko, Makowicz founded the successful Jazz Darings band. It was then that he also started working with Andrzej Kurylewicz, Zbigniew Namysłowski, Jan Ptaszyn Wróblewski, Urszula Dudziak, and the band Novi Singers.

In 1977, he toured the USA for the first time, during which he recorded his first solo album for the prestigious Columbia Records label. A year later, he returned to the USA, but this time he stayed in New York for good.

On American stages, he has performed with artists such as Benny Goodman, Herbie Hancock, Earl Hines, Freddie Hubbard, Sarah Vaughan, Teddy Wilson, George Shearing, George Mraz, and Al Foster, Jack DeJohnette, Charlie Haden.

As a soloist, he has also performed with the best orchestras in the world, including the National Symphony of Washington, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Moscow Symphony Orchestra, Warsaw Philharmonic, Chester String Quartet, Amici String Quartet, and Amadeus Chamber Orchestra.

His loud, musical duel with Leszek Możdżer at Carnegie Hall in 2004 was a loud echo in the American music world and beyond. The veteran's meeting with a younger virtuoso resulted in the release of an excellent concert album Makowicz vs Możdżer, at the Carnegie Hall (EMI Music Poland), which has achieved the status of a double platinum album.

Apart from typically jazz works, Makowicz often uses jazz interpretations of classical music, in particular, works by Frédéric Chopin, but also by George Gershwin, I. Berlin, J. Kern, C. Porter, and many other American composers.

He is a laureate of many awards, both Polish and international. In 2005, he was awarded the Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta. On October 12, 2009, Bogdan Zdrojewski, the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, gave him the Gold Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis. In 2021, he was awarded the Golden Fryderyk.
June 2025
01JUN '25sn, 12:00
Festiwal Słyszę Dobre Dźwięki 2025Handpan meditationsRelaxing music concert
01JUN '25sn, 13:00
Level 4. GalleryHELMUT NEWTON. MUSIC & PORTRAITSExhibition
01JUN '25sn, 13:00
Festiwal Słyszę Dobre Dźwięki 2025Sounds of the futureExhibition
01JUN '25sn, 17:00
Festiwal Słyszę Dobre Dźwięki 2025Efekt motylaFamily concertfor children with caregivers
06JUN '25fr, 14:00
06JUN '25fr, 15:00
06JUN '25fr, 19:00
SYMPHONIC CONCERTS | Grandioso 2024/2025Classicism from Different SidesSymphonic concert
07JUN '25sa, 12:00
Level 4. GalleryHELMUT NEWTON. MUSIC & PORTRAITSExhibition
07JUN '25sa, 12:00
Festiwal Słyszę Dobre Dźwięki 2025Sounds of the futureExhibition
07JUN '25sa, 17:00
12JUN '25th, 19:00
CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERTS | Misterioso 2024/2025Baltic Guitar Days | Duo MelisChamber concert
13JUN '25fr, 14:00
13JUN '25fr, 15:00
13JUN '25fr, 19:00
SYMPHONIC CONCERTS | Grandioso 2024/2025Closing Concert of the 77th Artistic SeasonSymphonic concert
14JUN '25sa, 12:00
Level 4. GalleryHELMUT NEWTON. MUSIC & PORTRAITSExhibition
14JUN '25sa, 12:00
Festiwal Słyszę Dobre Dźwięki 2025Sounds of the futureExhibition
14JUN '25sa, 19:00
SYMPHONIC CONCERTS | Grandioso 2024/2025Closing Concert of the 77th Artistic SeasonSymphonic concert
15JUN '25sn, 12:00
Level 4. GalleryHELMUT NEWTON. MUSIC & PORTRAITSExhibition
15JUN '25sn, 12:00
Festiwal Słyszę Dobre Dźwięki 2025Sounds of the futureExhibition
16 JUN, mn, 19:00 - LUDVICO EINAUDI MUSICkoncert zewnętrzny
17JUN '25tu, 09:00
Donuta discovers copyChamber concertfor preschool and early school-age children
17JUN '25tu, 11:00
Donuta discovers copyChamber concertfor preschool and early school-age children
20JUN '25fr, 14:00
20JUN '25fr, 15:00
20JUN '25fr, 16:00
21JUN '25sa, 12:00
Level 4. GalleryHELMUT NEWTON. MUSIC & PORTRAITSExhibition
21JUN '25sa, 21:00
PHILHARMONIC LIGHT | Brillante 2024/2025 | Muzyka na wodzieMuzyka na wodzie Jana WaraczewskiegoConcert
22JUN '25sn, 12:00
Level 4. GalleryHELMUT NEWTON. MUSIC & PORTRAITSExhibition
27JUN '25fr, 14:00
27JUN '25fr, 15:00
27JUN '25fr, 21:00
PHILHARMONIC LIGHT | Brillante 2024/2025Film Music at the Amfitheater |80th birthday of SzczecinSymphonic concert
28JUN '25sa, 12:00
Level 4. GalleryHELMUT NEWTON. MUSIC & PORTRAITSExhibition
29JUN '25sn, 12:00
Level 4. GalleryHELMUT NEWTON. MUSIC & PORTRAITSExhibition
July 2025
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