The history of the quintet dates back to 2015. The band consists of five instrumentalists, all relatively young. Saxophonist Monika Muc has received the following awards: winner of the Breath of Young Jazz Competition Individual Award at the Krokus Jazz Festival 2017, runner-up at the Novum Jazz Festival 2018 and recipient of a distinction at the Blue Note Competition in Poznań in 2019. Violinist Dominika Rusinowska is a semi-finalist of the international Conad Jazz Contest in Bologna (together with the D.R.A.G. Quartet) and placed third at the Novum Jazz Festival. In 2016, she was the first female Polish musician to advance to the finals of the Zbigniew Seifert International Competition, where she also received the audience award.
Pianist and composer Paulina Atmańska is the winner of, amongst others, the third prize in the International B-Jazz Competition in Belgium (2016), the first prize at the Getxo Jazz Festival (2015), the second prize in the International Jazz Composition Competition (2016) and the Special Prize of the Polish Jazz Association (2019). Double bassist and composer Kamila Drabek is the winner of the Jazz Phonographic Debut Competition 2019. Her artistic output includes the album Muzyka Naiwna (Naïve Music, trans. MG), recorded with her own band Tercet Kamili Drabek (Kamila Drabek’s Trio), nominated for the Fryderyk 2020 Award in the Best Debut category. Drummer Patrycja Wybrańczyk is in her final year of studies at the Jazz Faculty of the Fryderyk Chopin State Music School Complex in the class of Krzysztof Gradziuk. In addition to her activities within the O.N.E. Quintet, she is also a member of the Petersson’s Lightroom Project – a trio inspired by Scandinavian jazz.
Muc and Drabek are graduates of the Academy of Music in Kraków, whilst Rusinowska and Atmańska received their musical education at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice. All five artists, apart from their activities within the O.N.E. Quintet, actively participate in various musical and interdisciplinary projects associated with jazz, avant-garde and pop scenes. The main sources of inspiration for the members of the quintet are musicians such as Soweto Kinch, Krzysztof Komeda, Brad Mehldau, Zbigniew Seifert, Zbigniew Namysłowski, Adam Pierończyk, Charlie Haden czy Chris Dave.