Maciej Fortuna

Maciej Fortuna (born September 13, 1982 in Leszno ) is a Polish jazz trumpeter and composer who also works as a music producer for his own record label Fortuna Music .

Live and act

Fortuna attended the Mieczysław Karłowicz Music High School from 1997, the Wroclaw Music Academy from 2005 , and then studied law at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan , where he obtained his master's degree in 2008. He then studied trumpet at the Karol Lipiński Music Academy in Wroclaw, where he had lessons from Piotr Wojtasik . In 2012 he received his doctorate from the Ignacy Jan Paderewski Music Academy in Poznan . In 2011/12 he was awarded by the Polish magazine Jazz Forum .

Since the beginning of the 2010s he has been working with band projects such as the Maciej Fortuna Quintet , the Switch On Quintet and the Beimcik / Fortuna Quintet , with which a number of albums have been created. With his trio, which includes bassist Jakub Mielcarek and drummer Frank Parker, he dedicates himself to compositions by Polish jazz composers such as Andrzej Kurylewicz , Andrzej Trzaskowski , Janusz Muniak , Jerzy Milian and Zbigniew Seifert . He also took part in recordings by Zbigniew Wrombel, Ernst Bier and Mack Goldsbury .

Discographic notes

• Lost Keys (2010)
• Sahjia (2012, with Piotr Lemańczyk, Krzysztof Gradziuk and Łukasz Ojdana )
• Solar Ring (2012)
• At Home (2013)
• Tropy (2013, with Krzysztof Dys )
• Maciej Fortuna / Krzysztof Dys: Maciejewski - Variations DUX (2014)
• Fortuna / Goldsbury / Minchello / Grassi : The Last of The Beboppers , Fortuna Music (2014)
• Maciej Fortuna Ethno Quartet: Zakhaar Fortuna Music (2014)

Web links

• Maciej Fortuna website
• Maciej Fortuna at Allmusic (English)
• Maciej Fortuna at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Maciej Fortuna Trio (Hildener Jazztage 2015) ( Memento from June 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
2. ^ Review of the album Tropy (2013) at All About Jazz