Participants Universitas Cantat 2022

The Bacewicz Percussion Ensemble of Academy of Music in Lodz, Poland
Artistic direction: prof. Piotr Sutt

The Bacewicz Percussion Ensemble of Academy of Music in Lodz, Poland

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The Bacewicz Percussion Ensemble – a percussion ensemble composed of students from the Department of Percussion of the Academy of Music in Lodz is conducted by Piotr Sutt. The group’s repertoire includes ethnic percussion music from Asia, Africa, Latin America, traditional American march music, percussion classics of the 20th and 21st centuries, transcriptions of literature of past epochs, as well as new music created especially for the group. The colorful and varied sound of The Bacewicz Percussion Ensemble is determined by an unusually rich instrumentarium - from orchestral percussion instruments, through classical solo instruments, marching bands, ethnic and avant-garde instruments, to electronic instruments. At the concerts of the group there is also spatial music, visualization, light projections and interaction with the audience. The ensemble has worked and toured with the greatest names in the world of percussion art, among them Emmanuel Séjourné (France), John Wooton (USA), Javier Nandayap (Mexico), Kai Stensgaard (Sweden), Ignacio Ceballos Maritina (Spain), Anders Åstrand (Sweden), Francesca and Claudio Santangelo (Italy) and Bismarck Fernandez (Costa Rica). Their passion, commitment, joy of making music, stage presence, imagination and virtuosity create a unique image - a synthesis of youth, vitality and timelessness - the most beautiful art of percussion.

Prof. dr hab. PIOTR SUTT

Percussionist - soloist and chamber musician, scholarship holder of the Jeunesses Musicales World Orchestra in Berlin and Vienna. He perfected his skills in the USA, Japan, France, Germany, Italy and the former Yugoslavia, working under the direction of professors such as: Werner Thärichen, Ney
Rosauro, Steven Schick, Leigh Howard Stevens, Bent Lylloff, Ziegfried Fink, Bill Molenhof, Nebojša Jovan Živković and John Beck.
A regular contributor to PAS (Percussive Arts Society), author and translator of specialist articles in the PAS online magazine and application - "Rhythm! Scene". Since October 2019, he has been on the International Committee of the Percussive Arts Society in the USA, leading international panel discussions on didactics, level of education as well as curricula and artistic exchange between world percussion centres. Founder and leader of the Gdansk “Jeunesses Musicales” Percussion Ensemble, which has been touring continuously since 1985, and The Bacewicz Percussion Ensemble since 2013. The artist has performed in symphonic and chamber concerts almost all over Europe, the USA and Mexico. He has repeatedly given concerts as part of prestigious artistic events. He has collaborated with many distinguished conductors, composers and instrumentalists, including Pierre Boulez, George Crumb, Steve Reich, Jeffrey Tate, Zubin Mehta, Herbert von Karajan, Chuck Mangione, Emmanuel Séjourné, Ney Rosauro, John Beck, Witold Rowicki, Wojciech Michniewski and Leszek Możdżer. He has also collaborated with the Israel Symphony Orchestra, the National Philharmonic Orchestra, the Philharmonics of Łódź, Poznań, Szczecin, the Baltic Philharmonic and Kalisz, the Polish Chamber Choir Schola Cantorum Gedanensis, the Bach Ensemble - Mainz and the MozART Group. He was the first percussionist to take part in the recording of 18 albums by the Polish Chamber Philharmonic, including those nominated for Fryderyk awards. Since 2015 he has been the artistic director of the National Percussion Workshops in Gdansk, hosting the greatest names in the world of percussion. Juror of many international percussion competitions and lecturer of master classes (USA, Mexico, Italy, France, Sweden, Germany, Slovenia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Russia). He is among the artists of the Bergerault Company, Innovative Percussion and Angelini Mallets. In the years 2004-2016 he headed the Department of Instrumental and Vocal Studies at Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz. Since 2013, he has been teaching percussion at the Grażyna and Kiejstut Bacewicz Academy of Music in Łódź as a full professor, directing the Percussion Department.
In 2007, along with the ISKIERKA Foundation for children with cancer, he initiated the establishment of the Children's Oncology Orchestra, which he has been leading ever since. He is the originator and organiser of workshops on communication, leadership and interpersonal relations - based on his artistic experience in solo playing, chamber music and artistic didactics. Prof. Piotr Sutt was also
awarded the Gloria Artis medal for special merits for culture and the Medal of the National Education Commission for special contributions to education.