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Marek Napiórkowski

Marek Napiórkowski
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About

Marek Napiórkowski (born 1969 in Jelenia Góra) is a Polish jazz guitarist and composer widely regarded as the leading figure of his generation in Poland. He has appeared on more than 150 albums, collaborating with artists such as Pat Metheny, Marcus Miller, Anna Maria Jopek and Tomasz Stańko, and has toured across Europe, North America, Asia and South America. In 2019 he won the Fryderyk Music Award - Poland's most prestigious music prize - in both the Jazz Musician of the Year and Jazz Album of the Year categories, having been nominated sixteen times. He also teaches at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw and hosts a regular jazz programme on Radio Nowy Świat.

150+
albums credited on
#1
Jazz Guitarist of the Year in Jazz Forum readers' poll, every year since 2012
16×
Fryderyk Award nominations (won 2019)
~5K
Instagram followers

What's new

  • 2025-07

    Napiórkowski is scheduled to perform at the 30th Summer Jazz Festival Kraków - both with Dorota Miśkiewicz (7 July) and leading his own Trio (8 July) at Piwnica pod Baranami.

  • 2025-11

    The String Theory project with a string quintet continued its Polish tour, with a concert in Zielonka on 30 November 2025 drawing positive audience reviews.

  • 2023

    Napiórkowski's film soundtrack work was nominated for the Polish Film 'Orły' Award in 2023 and won the Audience Award at the Kraków Film Music Festival.

  • 2022-11

    His album 'String Theory' - a multi-part suite for improvising guitar, rhythm section and the AUKSO Chamber Orchestra - was released on 21 November 2022 via Agora Muzyka and won the Onet Kultura O!śnienia Award.

Tour

KrakówWarszawaSopotBydgoszczKielceGdańskLesznoLubinCieszanówZielonkaPoznań

Tracks

String Theory2022 multi-part suite for guitar, rhythm section and AUKSO Chamber Orchestra; won Onet Kultura O!śnienia Award
Hipokamptitle track of 2019 album blending jazz improvisation with electronics, prog-rock and ethno; praised by Stereophile Magazine
Wolno2007 acoustic album with Mino Cinelu and Grégoire Maret; went gold in Poland, nominated for Fryderyk
NAP2005 debut solo album featuring Leszek Możdżer and Anna Maria Jopek; Fryderyk-nominated
Brainstormlead single from Hipokamp (2019), one of the most-streamed tracks from that album

Recent shows

😴 Nothing scheduled with this artist in the near future.

Past · 3

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