Gdańsk Music Festival

Marcin Wądołowski

A guitarist, a session musician, a composer. Graduate of the Music Academy in Gdańsk. He is a laureate of  competitions: 1st place on the 7th International K. Sosiński Contest Estrada Gitarowych Talentów, named the Greatest Hope on the 11th International Festival Gdańskie Spotkania Gitarowe in 2001. Laureate of the 11th Young Jazz-Blues Bands Review in 2008 in Gdynia.

Marcin cooperated with the leading Polish jazz musicians, such as Leszek Możdżer, Przemysław Dyakowski, Wojciech Karolak, Maciej Sikała, Krystyna Stańko, Wojciech Staroniewicz, Krzesimir Dębski, Adam Czerwiński, Piotr Lemańczyk.

Marcin is also a part of the following formations: Elec-tri-city ,Quartado and MAP.

Apart from working with other artists, Marcin Wądołowski also records his own material. His albums are: Git Majonez (2011), his debut; Blue Night Session (2014); My Guitar Therapy (2015), recorded under the patronage of the Third Polish Radio Programme; Standards (2016) – an album that stands out due to consisting fully of other people's compositions, dedicated to the memory of Marek Bliziński and Jarek Śmietana and „Preludes for guitar and double bass” ( DUX 2018).

In 2018 - he was acclaimed as one of the five best jazz guitar players in Poland by music critics in JAZZ FORUM)