Wojciech Pulcyn graduated from the post-secondary jazz school Policealne Studium Jazzu in Warsaw, where he studied under professor Zbigniew Wegehaupt.
Pulcyn is a session musician. He co-operates with the most recognisable Polish musicians like Ewa Bem, Michał Urbaniak, and also with the young the blood of Polish jazz scene: guitarist Rafał Sarnecki and pianist Michał Tokaj.
In the field of ethno music he has collaborated with the Polish bands Kapela ze Wsi Warszawa, Ogrody Alamut, and the Bartosz Niedźwiecki Quartet. The fruit of this cooperation was recognition at The Polish Radio folk festival New Tradition. His passion for folk combined with classical interests led Pulcyn to co-fund the project Etnofonie Kurpiowskie – tribute to Szymanowski and Skierokowski, a reinterpretation of Karol Szymanowski's (1882 – 1937) Pieśni kurpiowskie (folk songs from the Kurpie region), and a tribute to a Polish folk researcher and propagator Władysław Skierkowski (1886, Głużek in the Kurpie region, Poland – 1941, Nazi Soldau concentration camp near the town of Działdowo).
He is also active in the field of theatrical music. In 2000, he wrote music for a play based on Witold Gombrowicz’s novel Translatlantyk, directed by Waldemar Śmigasiewicz, and preformed at Montownia Theatre in Warsaw. These days Pulcyn works in the metropolitan National Theratre.
In 2012 he went on a long concert tour around Russia, performing at 20 different venues, where he played with Kevin Mahogany: vocal, Daniel Kramer: piano, Robert Anchipolovsky: saxophones, Gasper Bertonseli: drums.
In 2013, Pulcyn and pianist Bogdan Hołownia released an album Henryk Wars Songbook –an homage to a Polish jazz pioneer, pianist, composer, and conductor (Henryk Wars, 1902, Warsaw, Poland – 1997, California, USA). Since last year Pulcyn and Hołownia have given concerts to promote music of the luminary.
With three more albums –two with the Polish Radio and one with Multikulti Project– 2013 was particulary successful for Pulcyn.
Active projects
– Energy, Kazimierz Jonkisz
– Rafał Sarnecki Quartet
– Piotr Bocian Cieślikowski Trio
– „Jazz i Przyjaciele” project created by Barbara Wrzesińska, Borys Janczarski
– Mariusz Lubomski, Weronika Grozdew i Kapela do Szymanowskiego,
– Kuba Stankiewicz Quartet, with pianist Bogdan Hołownia i Danielem Kramerem.
– Performances at the National Theatre in Warsaw.
– Henryk Wars songbook with pianist Bogdan Hołownia
Discography
2013: Henryk Wars Songbook, Bogdan Hołownia, Wojciech Pulcyn, HoBo Records
2013 Cinema Meets Jazz, Witold Janiak trio, The Polish Radio
2013: Jazz Energy, Kazimierz Jonkisz, Multikulti Project
2013: Again, Lubomski w Trójce, Msytic Production (CD and DVD)
2012: Spaces, Kuba Stankiewicz, Maciej Sikała, Wojciech Pulcyn, Sebastian Frankiewicz, KSQ Music
2011: Etnofonie Kurpiowskie. Tribute to Szymanowski i Siekierkowski, Wronika Grodzew, 4Ever Music / Warner Music Poland
2011: Madman Rambles Again, Fresh Sound Records (Spain)
2009: Pola, Apolonia Nowak, Folkers
2009: Alchemy of Soul, Piotr “Bocian” Cieślikowski Trio, GOWI Records
2009: Complexity in Simplicity, Paweł Kaczmarczyk & Audiofeeling Band, ACT
2008: Songs From a New Places, Rafał Sarnecki Quartet, ARMS Records
2008: Expressions, Mateusz Smoczyński Quintet, Tokarnia Music Production
2008: Ambiwalencja, Mariusz Lubomski, Lubomski – Agencja (Lubomski Agency)
2006: Konieczność Miłości – Piosenki Zygmunta Koniecznego, Mariusza Lubomskiego, Lubomski – Agencja (Lubomski Agency)
2006: Inspiration, Mateusz Smoczyński Quintet,Universal Music Polska
2003: Alamut, Alamut, Unzip Fly
2000: Wiosna Ludu, Kapela Ze Wsi Warszawa, Orange World
1999: Mariage, Ryszard Borowski, Polonia Records
1998: Tribute To Marek & Wacek, Marcin Masecki and Andrzej Jagodziński, Polonia Records
1998: Love Dance - Ivan Lins Songbook, Ewa Cybulska, Selles
1996: The Night of Flutes, Ryszard Borowski, Polonia Records
DVDs
2013: Again, Lubomski w Trójce, Msytic Production (CD and DVD)
Soundtracks
2009: Ostatnia Akcja, director: Michał Rogalski
Theatre music (selected)
as an author
Translatlantyk, directed by Waldemar Śmigasiewicz, Montownia Theatre, Warsaw.
as a permormer
Wesele – Pulcyn performed in the play based on a work of Stanisław Wyspiański; director: Jerzy Grzegorzewski; for National Theatre, Warsaw.
Awards and distinctions
2007: with Bartosz Niedźwiecki, Michał Żak, Maciej A. Kierzkowski won Grand Prix at The Polish Radio folk festival New Tradition
1999: with his own band New Orkestra, 3rd place in The International Contest of Young Jazz Bands, Cracow, Poland.
1998: honorable mention at Sarteano Jazz Festival, Italy.
1998: honorable mention at The International Contest of Young Jazz Bands, Cracow, Poland.
1998: 3rd place in The International Contest of Young Jazz Bands, Cracow, Poland.
1998: with Marcin Masecki Trio awarded 1st prize in Jazz Standards' Festival, Siedlce, Poland.
1997: with Joint Venture awarded 1st prize at Jazz Standards' Festival, Siedlce, Poland.
1997: with Joint Venture awarded honorable mention at Jazz Festival Hoeilaart (Belgia).
1995: with Joint Venture awarded 1st prize and an individual honorable mention in The International Contest of Young Jazz Bands, Cracow.
Collaboration
Piotr Baron, Gianni Basso, Ewa Bem, Ryszard Borowski, Imer Demirer, Bogdan Hołownia, Wojciech Karolak, Paweł Kaczmarczyk & Audiofeeling Band , Eryk Kulm, Sławomir Kulpowicz, Kazimerz Jonkisz, Robert Majewski, Janusz Muniak, Rafał Sarnecki, Maciej Sikała, Janusz Skowron, Mateusz Smoczyński, Wojciech Staroniewicz, Jacek Śmietana, Michał Tokaj, Michał Urbaniak, Bobby Watson, Jan “Ptaszyn” Wróblewski, Iza Zając, Michał Żak, Monty Waters, Kapela ze Wsi Warszawa, Ogrody Alamut, Bartosz Niedźwiecki Quartet.
In the National Theatre he works with musicians such as:
Stanisław Tomanek, Marek Zebura, Piotr Rodowicz, Łukasz Korybalski, Robert Majewski, Mariusz Głębocki, Krzysztof Mastalerski, Wojciech Kowalewski, or Robert Siwak.
Within the project Etnofonie Kurpiowskie. Tribute to Szymanowski i Siekierkowski his collaborators were:
Weronika Grozdew-Kołacińska, Justyna Stępień, Marta Maślanka, Rafał Grozdew, Małgorzata Szarlik-Woźniak, Maria Pomianowska, Sylwia Świątkowska, Ewa Pelwecka, Magdalena Sobczak-Kotnarowska, Bartłomiej Pałyga, Wojciech Pulcyn, Maciej Cierliński, Tomasz Pokrzywiński, Leszek Lorent, Jolanta Kossakowska, Agata Harz, Justyna Janiszewska, Katarzyna Mróz, Jan Kania, Bartosz Niedźwiecki, Zawady band, Bartosz Kowalski, Maciej A. Kierzkowski, Maciej Tarnowski and Sinfonia Speranza
WWW
http://wojciechpulcynfanblog.blox.pl/html
http://babskimuchem.blox.pl/strony/dyskografiawp.html
Created by: Anna Początek (Jazzarium.pl): revision: Terry Deal; Jazzarium.pl, Warszawa 2014.
