Touring around the world
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In 2008-2012, the Janusz Prusinowski Trio toured most European countries, as well as Asia, Canada, the United States (playing at, for instance, the Carnegie Hall and Chicago Symphony Center), but, most of all, Poland. Together with the pianist Janusz Olejniczak the band prepared the programme The Village Roots of Frédéric Chopin’s Music. 2012 saw the creation of a unique project Kujawy, engaging three Polish musical masters: Tadeusz Kubiak, Tomasz Stańko, and Janusz Olejniczak, with a vocal group led by Ewa Grochowska. The trio also played concerts with such musicians as Michał Urbaniak, Artur Dutkiewicz, and the classic of Azerbaijani mugham music Alim Qasimov. Apart from concerts, one can come across the band’s music at dance parties in village and city dance clubs, or in performances of the National Theatre and the Polish Radio Theatre.
In October 2012 Janusz Prusinowski Trio played in Thessaloniki at the prestigious Womex world music fair. In 2013, they went on a month-long tour of the United States, where they played almost 30 concerts. They also performed in Germany, France, the Benelux, Great Britain, Croatia, and other European countries. They attended Womex again in 2013, in Cardiff, with the project Wild Music from the Heart of Poland, which promotes new Polish folk music to international audiences. In 2014, Prusinowski’s band participated in the celebrations of the Oskar Kolberg Year and events associated with Polish Year in Turkey, commemorating the 600th anniversary of Polish-Turkish diplomatic relations.
In 2014, Janusz Prusinowski was awarded the Bronze Gloria Artis Medal for Merit to Polish Culture, in 2015, the annual award of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage in the field of folk culture. In the same year he was also nominated for the Cyprian Kamil Norwid Award from the Masovian government in the music category.