Sokołowski, Kuba International Festival of Contemporary Music Warsaw Autumn

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He graduated in piano playing from the Chopin University of  Music in Warsaw. His main areas of activity are improvised music  and contemporary classical music.

In 2019 he recorded two albums for the Bôłt Records label: with  Szabolcs Esztényi, and with Paweł Stasiewicz.

A member of the Magnolia Acoustic Quartet, with which he  has released two live albums for the For Tune Records label;  the album Boozer was made in cooperation with Maciej Obara  and Tomasz Dąbrowski.

Winner of the Jazz Juniors and Dolina Kreatywna competitions.  In 2014 he became the third Pole to complete the prestigious  SIM Summer Intensive course at the Brooklyn Conservatory of  Music, where he worked with Tim Berne and Ralph Alessi. In  2017, at the Sacrum Profanum festival and as part of the Warsaw Autumn fringe events, he took part in the concert project Muzyczki – Improvisations on Themes by Henryk Mikołaj Górecki  under the artistic direction of Evan Ziporyn. In 2018, together  with Mikołaj Pałosz, he recorded Lejaren Hiller’s Devil’s Fiddle,  commissioned for the SEPR exhibition at ZKM Karlsruhe. In  2020 he carried out the project Radical Songbook in cooperation  with the Rozdroża Centre for Intercultural Creative Initiatives  and the Automatophone foundation.

He currently lectures at the Chopin University of Music, Faculty  of Dance.