It all began one day at high school …I remember walking past a practice room and hearing a sixth former saxophonist playing and just getting a strange feeling that I must learn this instrument and that somehow it would become part of my life.

Luckily there was one remaining saxophone which Patrick quickly claimed.

Patrick has worked with the Jazz Warriors, Jazz Jamaica, Julian Joseph Big Band, Julian Joseph and Jason Rebello quartets, Incognito, London Metropolitan Orchestra, Lou Reed, Bill Bruford’s Earthworks, Stevie Wonder, Basia, Jocelyn Brown, James Brown, Dina Carroll, Desiré, Mica Paris, Lulu, Sister Sledge, Omar, Pete Townsend, Dave Stewart, Carleen Anderson, Beverly Knight, Diana Ross and Bobby Womack.

Visit Patrick Clahar’s official website here

Graduated in cello at the Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw. As a student
at the Academy, she was granted scholarship to learn SARANGI under the
guidance of maestro Pandit Ram Narayan in India. Her artistic interests
are marked by different musical systems and forms. Since 1981 she has been
studying unique techniques of playing Asian instruments, travelling to
India, China, Korea, Mongolia, Japan and Middle East.  Maria has created
The Non-European Music Section at F. Chopin Music Academy, as well as
giving courses at Musicology Institute at the Warsaw University which
portrays the connections and differences between various musical systems.
Comparative studies and multicultural experiences allowed her to undertake
the highly difficult task of reconstructing and taking into consideration
artistic as well as scientific values of two missing traditional Polish
instruments, the Suka, and fiddle from Plock.

For years she has been giving lectures, organizing music workshops and
promoting young musicians. In her musical journey she crosses many
barriers and breaks common stereotypes. Yet she makes it with particular
respect for the autonomy of each tradition from which she draws her
inspiration.

Maria Pomianowska as well plays solo or accompanies different music groups
folk, jazz, pop, and classical. She performs on the following instruments:
-Suka (Poland)
-Fiddle from Plock (Poland)
-Rota (Poland)
-Folk Bass (poland)
-Gadulka( Bulgaria)
-Kemanche- (Iran)
-Rebab (Turkey)
-Sarangi- (India)
-Er-hu (China)
-Morin-hur (Mongolia)
-Hurdy-gurdy

Visit Maria Pomianowska’s official website here