Motion Trio is a Polish accordion trio founded in 1996 by Janusz Wojtarowicz. The band has performed on six continents and in forty two countries: Austria, Belgium, Belarus, Brazil, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, China, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Great Britain, Greece, Spain, Holland, Ireland, Iceland, Israel, Japan, Canada, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Latvia, Germany, Kazachstan, Moldova, New Caledonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Singapore, Slovakia, South Korea, Switzerland, Sweden, Taiwan, Turkey, Ukraine, USA, Hungary and Italy.

Discography

*1998: "Cry" *1999: "Pictures" *2001: "Pictures From The Street" - Best Polish Recording 2000, Grand Prix at the Polish Music Industry, Best Debut year 2000 in Poland - Jazzi Magazine, Deutsche Shallplatten Kritik and "Gus Viseur","Musical Discovery of the Year" in France, 2005. *2002: "Play-Station" *2003: "Pictures From The Street" Reedition *2004: "Live in Vienna Sacrum & Profanum" *2007: "Metropolis" *2009: "Michael Nyman & Motion Trio" *2010: "Chopin" Live at La Folle Journee - The Best Album in category Classical Music, HI-FI & Music *2011: "Brahms and Liszt and..." Live at La Folle Journee *2012: "Musorgsky.Prokofiev.Shostakovich.Khachaturian" *2013: "Nic Się Nie Stalo" L.U.C and Motion Trio - Mateusz Trójki - Award of the Polish Radio III, Hit of 2013; "Iluzji Łąka" by radio TOK FM audience vote *2013: "City of Harmony" Motion Trio & L.U.C *2013: "Polonium" *2018: "Accordion Stories"

Collaborative albums

Awards

Motion Trio have won many international awards including: * "Cobalt Muse" – Award of the Foundation "Different Tones" (2009) * "Mateusze 2013" - Music Award of the Polish Radio Channel 3 for the Motion Trio and L.U.C - masterful combination of two musical worlds, which resulted in two albums, "NOTHING HAPPENED" and "CITY OF HARMONY" * "Best Film Music" 2016 - 41 Film Festival in Gdynia for Janusz Wojtarowicz and Motion Trio (Janusz Wojtarowicz, Paweł Baranek, Marcin Gałażyn) for the music for the film "Szczęście Świata" dir. Michał Rosa

Motion Trio works with

Krzysztof Penderecki Krzysztof Eugeniusz Penderecki (; 23 November 1933 – 29 March 2020) was a Polish composer and conductor. His best known works include '' Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima'', Symphony No. 3, his '' St Luke Passion'', '' Polish Requiem'', ...

- "Ciaccona" from Polish Requiem (the version for three accordions) - world premiere in New York, Carnegie Hall in 2008 - Oratorio "Seven gates of Jerusalem" part III "De profundis" (version for three accordions) - world premiere "Skirball Center" in Los Angeles 2007

Henryk Mikołaj Górecki Henryk may refer to: * Henryk (given name) * Henryk, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, a village in south-central Poland * Henryk Glacier, an Antarctic glacier See also * Henryk Batuta hoax The Henryk Batuta hoax was a hoax perpetrated on the Polish ...

- "Three Works in the Old Style" (version for three accordions) - world premiere in New York, Carnegie Hall in 2008 - "Concerto for harpsichord (or piano) and string orchestra op. 40" (version for piano and three accordions). The premiere of the composer's 80th birthday, Warsaw Philharmonic in 2013 (Leszek Możdżer and Motion Trio)

Wojciech Kilar Wojciech Kilar (; 17 July 1932 – 29 December 2013) was a Polish classical and film music composer. One of his greatest successes came with his score to Francis Ford Coppola's '' Bram Stoker's Dracula'' in 1992, which received the ASCAP Award a ...

- "Orawa" (in the version for three accordions) - world premiere in New York Carnegie Hall in 2008

Jerzy Maksymiuk Jerzy Jan Maksymiuk (born 9 April 1936) is a Polish composer, pianist and orchestra conductor. Personal life Maksymiuk was born in Grodno, Second Polish Republic (now Belarus). He studied violin, piano, conducting and composition at the Warsaw ...

- "Arbor vitae II" for a soprano, an accordion trio and a symphonic orchestra 2018

Jan A.P. Kaczmarek Jan Andrzej Paweł Kaczmarek (; born 29 April 1953) is a Polish composer. He has written scores for more than 70 feature films and documentaries, including '' Finding Neverland'' (2004), for which score he won an Oscar and a National Board of ...

- "Koncert Jankiela" (version for three accordions and orchestra)- premiere on International Film and Music Festival "Transatlantic" (Poznań - Poland 2012)

Michael Nyman Michael Laurence Nyman, CBE (born 23 March 1944) is an English composer, pianist, librettist, musicologist, and filmmaker. He is known for numerous film scores (many written during his lengthy collaboration with the filmmaker Peter Green ...

- MGV "Musique a Grand Vitesse" (for three accordions) with Michael Nyman Band - world premiere "Barbican Centre" in London 2009 - "Kino" (for three accordions) with Michael Nyman Band - world premiere The Polish Baltic Frédéric Chopin Philharmonic 2010 '
Viacheslav Siemionov
'' - "Toccata Barbaro" (for three accordions) 2014 - world premiere - International Festival of Cracow Composers 2015 Other Artists:

Bobby McFerrin Robert Keith McFerrin Jr. (born March 11, 1950) is an American folk and jazz singer. He is known for his vocal techniques, such as singing fluidly but with quick and considerable jumps in pitch—for example, sustaining a melody while also ra ...

Leszek Możdżer Leszek Możdżer (Polish pronunciation: born Lesław Henryk Możdżer, 23 March 1971, Gdańsk) is a Polish jazz pianist, music producer and film score composer. Life and career Możdżer was born on 23 March 1971 in Gdańsk. He began to play t ...

Krzesimir Dębski Krzesimir Marcin Dębski (; born 26 October 1953 in Wałbrzych) is a Polish composer, conductor and jazz violinist. His music career as a musician has been that of a performer as well as composer of classical music, opera, television and featur ...

, Małgorzata Walewska, Triloki Gurtu,

Michał Urbaniak Michał Urbaniak (born January 22, 1943) is a Polish jazz musician who plays violin, lyricon, and saxophone. His music includes elements of folk music, rhythm and blues, hip hop, and symphonic music. History He was born in Warsaw, Pola ...

Tomasz Stańko Tomasz Ludwik Stańko (11 July 1942 – 29 July 2018) was a Polish trumpeter and composer. Stańko was associated with free jazz and the avant-garde. In 1962, Tomasz Stańko formed his first band, the Jazz Darings, with saxophonist Janusz Muni ...

Zohar Fresco Zohar Fresco (born 1969) is an Israeli percussionist and composer, specializing on the frame drum. He is known to have created his personal musical technique that combines various styles of playing the frame drum. He is a member of the jazz trio ...

, Mariusz Patyra, Piotr Orzechowski (Pianohooligan), Atom String Quartete,

Marta Ptaszyńska Marta Ptaszyńska (born 29 July 1943) is a Polish composer, percussionist and professor of music at the University of Chicago. She has been described by the Polish Music Center of the University of Southern California as "one of the best known Poli ...

, Zbigniew Bargielski, Marcel Chyrzyński,

Maciej Zieliński Maciej Zielinski (born March 29, 1971) is the award-winning Polish composer, arranger and music producer, known for his contemporary classical and film scores, songs and original television music. His contemporary classical music has been awar ...

, Łukasz Targosz,

L.U.C L.U.C is the alias of Łukasz Rostkowski , a Polish manager, rapper and producer who works in Wrocław Wrocław (; , . german: Breslau, , also known by other names) is a city in southwestern Poland and the largest city in the historica ...

Józef Skrzek Józef Franciszek Skrzek (born 2 July 1948, Siemianowice, Silesia, Poland) is a Polish multi-instrumentalist, singer, and composer, an important figure in Polish rock. Life In his early career, Skrzek was associated with the groups Ślęż ...

Anna Maria Jopek Anna Maria Jopek (born 14 December 1970) is a Polish vocalist, songwriter, and improviser. She represented Poland in the 1997 Eurovision Song Contest, with the song "Ale jestem Ale is a type of beer brewed using a warm fermentation method, r ...

, Kuba Badach,

Zbigniew Wodecki Zbigniew Stanisław Wodecki (; 6 May 1950 – 22 May 2017) was a Polish singer, musician, composer, actor and TV presenter. Early life and career He was born on 6 May 1950 in Godów, Poland. He started to play the violin at the age of fi ...

KROKE Kroke is a Polish instrumental ensemble of world music. The band's name refers to the Yiddish language name for Kraków (, ). The band was founded in 1992 by three friends and graduates of the Academy of Music in Kraków. Initially, they wer ...

, ANAWA, Marcin Wyrostek, Lidia Jazgar, Joanna Kulig,

Ania Rusowicz Anna Sandra Rusowicz (born 28 March 1983) is a Polish singer. From 2005 to 2007, Rusowicz was the vocalist of the band Dezire, with whom she released a studio album entitled ''Pięć smaków'' (2005). From 2009 to 2011, she was the vocalist of ...

The ThreeX

Intars Busulis Intars Busulis (born 2 May 1978 in Talsi, Latvia) is a Latvian singer, trombonist and musician in a Musical Union ''Intars Busulis & Abonementa orķestris.'' Wider recognition came from participation in a band called "Caffe", in 2001''.'' Also, ...

Sylvester Mateev
Orchestras: Orkiestra Filharmonii Narodowej w Warszawie,

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Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg The German Film Orchestra Babelsberg (also known as ''Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg'' or DFOB in German) is a symphony orchestra and music studio based in Potsdam, Germany. It was founded in 1918 as Ufa-Sinfonieorchester and was re-established ...

Sinfonietta RigaSinfonietta CracoviaRio de Janeiro Orquestra do Teatro MunicipalOrkiestra Filharmonii ŁódzkiejOrkiestra Polskiej Filharmonii BałtyckiejOrkiestra Filharmonii PomorskiejOrkiestra Filharmoników SzczecińskichOrkiestra Filharmonii Warmińsko-MazurskiejOrkiestra Kameralna "AUKSO"Elbląska Orkiestra KameralnaOrkiestra L’AutunnoPrzemyska Orkiestra Kameralna
Hanseatica Chamber Orchestra (Gdańsk)
Ensemble "KONTRASTE" (Nürnberg)Neue Lausitzer Philharmonie
Conductors:

, Marek Moś, Radosław Labahua, Piotr Sułkowski,

, Mirosław Jacek Błaszczyk,

Ewa Strusińska Ewa Strusińska (born 19 July 1976 in Stalowa Wola) is a Polish conductor, General Music Director ( Generalmusikdirektorin / GMD) of the Gerhart-Hauptmann-Theater Görlitz-Zittau ( de) and principal conductor of the Neue Lausitzer Philharmonie i ...

, Szymon Bywalec, Tomasz Chmiel, Maciej Koczur, Adam Banaszak, Scott Lawtonon, Ernst van Tielem, Normund Sne, Massimiliano Caldi, Jérôme Pillement And with: Anna Dymna, Krzysztof Orzechowski - "The Salon of Poetry",

Andrzej Seweryn Andrzej Teodor Seweryn (born 25 April 1946) is a Polish actor and director. One of the most successful Polish theatre actors, he starred in over 50 films, mostly in Poland, France and Germany. He is also one of only three non-French actors to ...

- "Mounsieur Pichon" - based on the text by Salome Broussky (Premiere: 19 October 2010 in the Comedie Francaise in Paris, music by F. Chopin and the Motion Trio), Piotr Cieplak - "The Italian Straw Hat" - music by Janusz Wojtarowicz, performed by the MT, Jerzy Grałek - "Jesienin" - music by the Motion Trio,

Jerzy Skolimowski Jerzy Skolimowski (, born 5 May 1938) is a Polish film director, screenwriter, dramatist and actor. A graduate of the prestigious National Film School in Łódź, Skolimowski has directed more than twenty films since his 1960 début ''Oko wykol' ...

– the MT starred in the "Essential Killing" (award winner at the film festivals in Venice, Mar Del Plata and Gdynia), Jacek Sroka - concert project "Sroka in Motion" combines music of MT and painting of Jacek Sroka. The band granted permission for the use of their pieces of music in the following films: One Hour Summer (USA 2008) Laura (POLAND 2010) Życie (POLAND 2002) as well as in many other historical and feature films all over the world. The band made various recordings for the following TV stations:

Arte Arte (; (), sometimes stylized in lowercase or uppercase in its logo) is a European public service channel dedicated to culture. It is made up of three separate companies: the Strasbourg-based European Economic Interest Grouping ARTE, pl ...

ZDF ZDF (, short for Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen; ; "Second German Television") is a German public-service television broadcaster based in Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate. It is run as an independent nonprofit institution, which was founded by all fe ...

, WDR,

France 3 France 3 () is a French free-to-air public television channel and part of the France Télévisions group, which also includes France 2, France 4, France 5 and France Info. It is made up of a network of regional television services prov ...

, Mezzo, TVP, TVP Kultura, as well as for several radio stations.

References

External links

Home page (english version)
*http://akordeonus.com/ *https://www.reverbnation.com/motiontrio *https://www.capferretmusicfestival.com/BIOS/2019_MOTION_TRIO.html *https://www.polskieradio.pl/9/319/Artykul/2223828,Motion-Trio-w-poszukiwaniu-nowych-dzwiekow *https://www.rybnik.com.pl/wiadomosci,wyjatkowe-trio-akordeonowe-w-teatrze-ziemi-rybnickiej,wia5-3267-37843.html *https://gazetakrakowska.pl/motion-trio-zagra-w-krakowie-rozmowa-z-januszem-wojtarowiczem-zalozycielem-zespolu/ar/12940988 {{DEFAULTSORT:Motion Trio 1996 establishments in Poland 20th-century accordionists 21st-century accordionists Musical groups established in 1996