Janusz Szrom - jazz vocalist        www.szrom.pl

Janusz Szrom’s style is as broad as the notion of “jazz” itself can be.  On one hand, he has been developing a love of using his voice as a musical instrument while reaching back to bebop’s earliest composers or Parker’s pure improvisations.  On the other, you can hear in his songs a truly romantic side:  beautiful and heart-touching singing.  This wide range of Janusz’s style and interests shows you not only his flexibility and readiness to undertake various, interesting challenges but is also strongly supported by his rich and broad musical education.  He is skilled in the piano, trumpet, organ and saxophone; all of these instruments are playing in the soul of this jazzman...   

Janusz Szrom started his musical education on the piano in 1977 at Nysa School of Music.  Then, in 1981, he began his 12-year long journey with the trumpet while continuing to perfect the piano.  After graduating from the Secondary School of Music in Krakow, he first entered John Paul II University to play organ and later matriculated to Musical University in Krakow to study music theory.  But his love of jazz was growing all the time, and it finally led him to pursue his dreams.  Although only one or two vocal students are accepted yearly, in 1992 he began study in Katowice at the prestigious K. Szymanowski University of Music’s School of Jazz and Popular Music.

Career highlights, awards and experience:

·        1994 - Won the 2nd place honor at the International Meeting of Jazz Vocalists in          Zamosc.

·        1995 - Received his Master’s degree with Honors as a Jazz Vocalist.

·        1995 - Was the 1st prizewinner of the Fall Pomeranian Jazz “Key To Career’s Door”.

·        General experience as a composer, arranger, teacher, instructor and active performer.

·        Experience as a vocal teacher at F. Chopin’s College of Music in Warsaw.

·        Additionally, a teacher and instructor of famous Summer Workshops of Jazz Music in Pulawy and Chodziez.

·        Has performed at numerous festivals, music meetings, in addition to appearances on various TV and radio programs.

A little history and a lot of friends:

Janusz Szrom mastered his performing skills collaborating with some of the greatest actors and musicians.  The value of the word in song he learned from his actor friends who also employed him at the Athenaeum Theater, co-starring with Joanna Trzepiecinska in the play “Kofta” (directed by Artur Barcis.)  He has also played at the side of other great actors such as Krystyna Tkacz, Kasia Lochowska, Artur Barcis, Jan Janga Tomaszewski. 

For years he recorded songs for a popular Polish TV show - Olga Lipinska Cabaret.

He is currently performing with a legend of Polish cabaret and movie star, Irena Kwiatkowska (star of the unforgettable Older Gentelmen Cabaret), in her own program “Irena Kwiatkowska and Her Guests”.

He has worked and/or recorded with the greatest, including:

Ewa Bem, Wlodzimierz Nahorny, Jan “Ptaszyn” Wroblewski, Henryk Miskiewicz, Zbigniew Jaremko, Wojciech Karolak, Zbigniew Wegehaupt, Andrzej Jagodzinski, Henryk Majewski, Bogdan Holownia.

Main festivals:

Opole 1993 Debuts

Jazz Jamboree 1994 (accompanied by Katowice University of Music’s Big-Band)

94’International Meetings of Jazz Vocalists Zamosc

95’XXI Pomeranian Jazz Fall

Opole 1998 Muzyczna Jedynka (song “Cieplej” with Soda)

Opole 1999 Premieres (song ”Nocna Rozmowa” with Ewa Uryga)

Jazz Jamboree 2001 “Ellington in Polish”

”Jazzowe Poetycje” Jacek and Wojtek Niedzielowie

Koch International 1996cat.nr: 33863-2

“Szeptem” Anna Maria Jopek

Mercury/PolyGram 1998 cat.nr: 558 588 2 / MC 558 588 4

“Gniew” music to the Marcin Ziebinski movie

Koch International 1998 cat.nr: 33744-2

“Duke po polsku” Wojciech Mlynarski & Zbig?s Band

Futurex 2002

”Historia roku minionego” Jacek Niedziela

Megaus WA Records 2002

”Kofta na bis-różni wtkonawcy”  Jonasz Kofta`s songs

Warner Music Poland 2002 cat. Nr: 504 666 2302

“To Miłość Mi Wszystko Wyjaśniła”

Duszpasterstwo Środowisk Twórczych i Sportu Diecezji Warszawsko-Praskiej 2005

„The Best of Polish Jazz vl.2”

Polonia Records 2006

„Nieszpory – Artyści Polscy Janowi Pawłowi II w Hołdzie”

Stowarzyszenie Miłośników Muzyki Chrześcijańskiej Gospel / Polskie Radio SA 2006

„Straszni Panowie Trzej”

AGORA 2006

„Jonasz Kofta Songs”

RZECZPOSPOLITA 2007

"Strofki o miłości"

RZECZPOSPOLITA 2007

„Cicho, cicho pastuszkowie”

Włodzimierz Nahorny and Bogdan Loebl christmas songs

Blue Note 2007

For more info, pictures and songs please here:

www.szrom.pl

www.myspace.com/szrom

http://wawuszek.wrzuta.pl/

www.strasznipanowietrzej.pl