Robert Kubiszyn is a session musician and a sideman. He graduated from the faculty of Jazz and the Light Music Academy of Jazz Music in Katowice, Poland, in the performance of double bass music under Professor Jacek Niedziela.
He is widely known because of his rare talent for both the acoustic and the electric bass guitar. He is much in demand as a session musician and sideman. He has performed on more than 80 albums with various artists.
For many years he has worked with Anna Maria Jopek, Grzegorz Turnau, Henryk Miśkiewicz, Marek Napiórkowski, and Dorota Miśkiewicz. Thanks to these collaborations he has had a chance to record sessions with Pat Metheny, Mino Cinelu, Richard Bona, and Dhafer Youssef.
Although he is a really strong brand on the Polish jazz scene, his first solo album, Before Sunrise, was only released in 2010. On it, we hear Mino Cinelu, Krzysztof Herdzin, Anna Maria Jopek, Gregoire Maret, Tim Miller, Henryk Miśkiewicz, Marek Napiórkowski, Adam Pierończyk, Grzegorz Turnau, Michał Dąbrówka, Cezary Konrad, and Robert Luty. With the album, Kubiszyn, he achieved enormous success: it was nominated for a Fryderyki Award in four categories and received one for The Best Jazz Debut.
Kubiszyn works also as a music producer; he has co-produced two albums for the eminent Polish guitar player, Marek Napiórkowski: Nap and Wolno. They were released by Universal Music. Wolno awarded the artist and the producers with a gold disc.
Selected dicography
As a producer
His most prominent engagements were to co-produce two albums for Universal Music called Nap and Wolno (gold record) of Polish jazz guitar phenomenon Marek Napiórkowski.
As a sideman
With Grzegorz Turnau
2011: Och! Turnau, a concert at the Och! Teatr, Warsaw, Poland, Mystic Production
2010: Fabryka klamek, Mystic Production
2009: Do zobaczenia, Pomaton EMI
2006: Historia pewnej podróży, Pomaton EMI
2005: 11:11, Pomaton EMI
2004: Cafe Sułtan, Pomaton EMI
2002: Nawet, Pomaton EMI
1999: Ultima, Pomaton EMI
1998: Księżyc w misce, Pomaton EMI
With Anna Maria Jopek
2008: Upojenie, Pat Metheny & Anna Maria Jopek, Nonesuch Records
2008: Jo&Co, Universal Music Polska
2006: Niebo, Universal Music Polska
2005: Secret, Universal Music Polska
2005: Niebo, Universal Music Polska
2003: Farat, Universal Music Polska
2002: Nienasycenie, Universal Music Polska
With z Dorota Miśkiewicz
2005: Pod Rzęsami, Sony Music
2002: Dorota Miśkiewicz Goes to Heaven, Grami
Other
2009: To prawdziwa wolność człowieka , Pono feat. Sokół, 3Label
2009: Fantazja na tematy IV kwartetu smyczkowego Grażyny Bacewicz, Krzysztof Herdzin, Polskie Radio SA
2009: Shuruvath, Michał Rudaś, MyPlace
2007: Full Drive 2, Henryk Miśkiewicz, Grami
2007: Wolno, Marek Napiórkowski, Universal Music Polska
2006: Busem po São Paulo, The Adam Pierończyk Trio, Meta Records
2006: Acoustic Room 47, Proa Records
2006: Pierwszy stopień, Mariusz Szaban, Dream Space Music
2006: Sentiments, Ewa Małas-Godlewska, Polskie Radio
2006: Inny smak, Bisquit, Kayax
2006: Konwój Muszkieterów, live, Natalia Kukulska, Fundacja Muszkieterów
2006: Mathplanette, Pomaton EMI
2005: Kraków–Saloniki, Andrzej Sikorowski i Maja Sikorowska, Pomaton EMI
2005: Nap, Marek Napiórkowski, Universal Music Polska
2004: Full Drive, Henryk Miśkiewicz, Grami
2004: Sny, Grzegorz Karnas, Ninth Floor Production
2004: Ławeczka, Piotr Mikołajczak, Sony Music
2004: Wiara czyni cuda, TGD, Gift
2004: Ewa, Ewa, Ewa Bem, Pomaton EMI
2001: Mówię tak, myślę nie, Ewa Bem, Pomaton EMI
1998: Kind of Life, Jarosław Śmietana, Ryszard Styła, SelleS
Cinema music
2007–2010: Barwy szczęścia, a series by Polish Television, TVP
2009: Miasto z morza, directed byAndrzej Kotkowski, Polish production
2009: Idealny facet dla mojej dziewczyny, directed by Tomasz Konecki, Polish production
2008: Agentki, directed by Piotr Wereśniak, Polish production
2008: Jeszcze raz, directed by Mariusz Malec, Polish production
2008: Nie kłam, kochanie, directed by Piotr Wereśniak, Polish production
2008: Niezawodny system, Izabela Szylko, Polish production
2008: To nie tak jak myślisz, kotku, directed by Sławomir Kryński, Polish production
2008: Rozmowy Nocą, soundtrack for a film directed by Maciej Żak, Kayax
2005: Zakochany Anioł, directed by Artur Więcek, Polish production
2004: Ławeczka, directed by Maciej Żak, Polish production
Theatre music
2002: Przygody Sindbada Żeglarza, a play beased on the work of Bolesław Leśmian, directed by Jarosław Kilina, Polish Theatre, Warsaw, Poland
Collaboration
Regular collaboration with Polish artists:
Anna Maria Jopek, Grzegorz Turnau, Henryk Miśkiewicz, Krzysztof Herdzin, and Marek Napiórkowski.
Other:
Makoto Ozone, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Pat Metheny, Dean Brown, Mino Cinelu, Gregoire Maret, Gary Husband, Oscar Castroneves, Richard Bona, Dhafer Youssef, Gil Goldstein, Jon Herrington, Adam Pieronczyk, Janusz Muniak, Tomasz Stańko, Zbigniew Namyslowski, Maria Schneider with Krzysztof Herdzin Orchestra, Krzysztof Zawadzki – Walk Away, Urszula Dudziak, Michał Urbaniak, Grzegorz Turnau, Pono, Sokół, Jarosław Śmietana.
Contact
robert@robertkubiszyn.com
http://www.robertkubiszyn.com/
www.myspace.com/robertkubiszyn
Created by: Anna Początek (Jazzarium.pl): revision: Terry Deal; Jazzarium.pl, Warszawa 2014.