Mateusz Smoczyński — violinist and composer

Mateusz Smoczyński – violinist, composer and bandleader who moves freely between genres. He is a co-founder of the Atom String Quartet and New Trio, leads his own quintet and performs in a duo with cellist Stephan Braun.

In recent years Smoczyński has devoted himself to composition that resists easy classification, bringing together symphonic music, jazz and improvisation. He has written five violin concertos with orchestra, among them “Adam’s Apple” for violin, “2PiX” for violin and saxophone, performed together with Branford Marsalis, and “Fallen Angel”, written for Janusz Olejniczak. He is also the author of the jazz suite “Over the Clouds”, performed with Markus Stockhausen, and of the string quartet “Pictures from Warsaw”, released in 2024 on the album Universum. His violin concerto “Adam’s Apple” was released on record by Warner Music (2024). Winner of the 2025 Fryderyk Award for Jazz Composer of the Year.