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Maria Natanson has been awarded 'ŻURAWIE' Cultural Price in 'sound'
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MARIA NATANSON - main vocal, violin, kemence, bracsa She can speak a few Gypsy dialects and her distinctive, powerful voice as well as unquestionable violin skills are admired both by Polish and Gypsy audience. The 22 year-old Polish solist - «the biggest trump and simultaneously 'the brand mark' of Čači Vorba»* - by many considered «the most remarkable voice of Polish world-music scene» is a kind of a music-rebel. The newly awarded «young performer of the year of Lublin» in 'sound' category comes from the family with a deep rooted classical music traditions. She's a grandaughter of Tadeusz Natanson, a famous contemporary music composer and a pioneer of Polish musicotherapy. But unlike to her school-trained famous ancestors, Maria had chosen her own way of musical developement. At the age of 14 she abandoned musical school and ran off (!) to Carpathian Mountains to learn tradtional music from authentic village musicians. During next 5 years she travelled through Polish districts of Tatra, Żywiec and Slovkia as well in searching for a living Carpathian and Gypsy music. First as a student, then as a band-mate of many well-known Goral, Slovak and Roma masters she had learned hundreads of melodies and songs in dozens of languages and dialects that can be found on a huge muticultural area of Carpathians. For half a year she also lived a travelled with Gypsy musicians from Kałe Bała band. In 2002 Maria Natanson has stared her adventure with Čači Vorba, the band composed mostly of musicians from Lublin (Eastern Poland) and Lviv (Western Ukraine), in which she focuses on her favourite Carpathian, Balkan and Gypsy music and in 2007 she has also joined 20-years-standing St.Nicolas Orchestra. In a merely few years of stage activity she has recored 4 CD albums (Transkapela Over The Village - Ferment 2006; Orkiestra św. Mikołaja Nowa Muzyka - Ferment 2007; Lem-Agination - Open Sources 2007; Čači Vorba Szczera Mowa - Red Taboret 2008); became laureate of main Polish folk music competition (Polish Radio «Nowa Tradycja» Festival, 2006) and played a few hundread concerts in the country and abroad. Her last appearances at Rainforest World Music Festival have also met with a great enthusiasm of Asian and European world-music lovers and critics. * quotes from press articles MORE ABOUT 'ŻURAWIE 2009' PRIZE Candidates for four categories of the competition (word, image, sound and cultural animation) had been submited in March by Radio Lublin's listeners and newspaper's readers. The final choice of each category's winner has been made by the jury consisting of artists and journalists. 'While voting for one person, I felt, that I was hurting another, equally creative one - said yesterday Jarosław Koziara, one of competition's juryman. - Only in two candidates' cases, Maria Natanson and Tomek Bazan, I had no doubt, that they got ahead they competitors a long way off - adds Koziara.' (Kurier Lubelski, 5.05.2009) Maria Natanson's Discography: - Čači Vorba - Tajno Biav (Secret Marriage) - Oriente 2011 - Čači Vorba - Szczera Mowa - Red Taboret 2008 / Oriente 2010 - Orkiestra św. Mikołaja - Nowa Muzyka - Ferment 2007 - Nowa Tradycja - Antologia Polskiego Folku - Polskie Radio 2007 - Orkiestra św. Mikołaja - Lem-agination - OpenSurces 2007 - Mikołajki Folkowe 2006 (festival's compilation) - 2006 - Transkapela - Over The Village - Ferment 2006 - XI Spotkania Folkowe - Z wiejskiego podwórza (festival's compilation) 2006 |
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