Oktawia Kawęcka, born in Radom

Radom

Radom is a city in central Poland with 223,397 inhabitants . It is located on the Mleczna River in the Masovian Voivodeship , having previously been the capital of Radom Voivodeship ; 100 km south of Poland's capital, Warsaw.It is home to the biennial Radom Air Show, the largest and...

, Poland

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

, is a vocalist, flautist

Flautist

A flautist or flutist is a musician who plays an instrument in the flute family. See List of flautists.The choice of "flautist" versus "flutist" is the source of dispute among players of the instrument...

, arranger, and also the leader of her own band. She performs her own arrangements- different shades of jazz, worldwide standards of classical music which she arranges combining fresh and modern sounds at the same time keeping her attitude and devotion towards the mainstream jazz music. Her reportoire includes songs in Polish, English, French, Spanish, Greek, Portuguese and Italian. She is currently studying at F. Chopin Music Academy in Warsaw, Poland.

Oktawia Kawęcka has been performing since her childhood, winning many acclaimed awards at Polish and international music festivals, including for example Polish TV channel 1 award at the International Music and Dance Festival in Konin. Since her early years she has also performed in numerous theatre plays. She has recorded for radio and TV- Polish National Radio, Jazzradio, Radio Krakow, Polish TVP1, TVP2, TVP3 and Polsat TV stations.

Oktawia's debut album will be released in mid September 2008. Her modern arrangements put significant emotional emphasis on the Polish composers and their works. Apart from her own songs, the album includes a jazz waltz inspired by an Etude of Frédéric Chopin

Frédéric Chopin

Frédéric François Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist. He is considered one of the great masters of Romantic music and has been called "the poet of the piano"....

, works by Stanislaw Moniuszko

Stanislaw Moniuszko

Stanisław Moniuszko was a Polish composer, conductor and teacher. His output includes many songs and operas, and his musical style is filled with patriotic folk themes of the peoples of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth...

, worldwide renowned jazz musician Michal Urbaniak

Michal Urbaniak

Michał Urbaniak is a Polish jazz musician and composer born in Warsaw, playing mainly the violin, lyricon and saxophone during concerts and recordings...

, Jerzy Wasowski

Jerzy Wasowski

Jerzy Wasowski is a famous Polish composer, pianist, actor and director. He was the creator of Kabaret Starszych Panów with Jeremi Przybora.Many of his songs were popular. He created about 700 songs altogether.-External links:...

, Jeremi Przybora

Jeremi Przybora

Jeremi Przybora was a popular Polish poet, writer, actor and singer, best known for creating TV-series "Kabaret Starszych Panów" with Jerzy Wasowski and for his ballads and sung poetry, a popular music genre in Poland.-External links:*...

. Oktawia was one of the first musicians in Poland to record two songs composed by an Oscar-winning composer Bronislaw Kaper

Bronislaw Kaper

Bronisław Kaper was a Polish film composer who scored films and musical theater in Germany, France, and the USA. The American immigration authorities misspelled his name as Bronislau Kaper...

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