The FCUM BIG-BAND

• Art
• • Sym­phony Orches­tra of the Fry­deryk Chopin Uni­ver­sity of Music
  • Mixed Choir of the Fry­deryk Chopin Uni­ver­sity of Music
  • Inter-College Baroque Orchestra
  • Chopin Acad­e­mia Orchestra
  • The FCUM Brass and Wood­wind Band
  • The FCUM Big-Band
  • War­saw Boys’ and Men’s Choir at the FCUM in Warsaw
  • Chopin Vocal Consort
  • War­saw Soloists Con­certo Avenna
  • Wilanów Quar­tet

Artis­tic Man­ager — Ryszard Borowski

The FCUM Big-Band was estab­lished at Pro­fes­sor Bogu­mił Gadawski’s ini­tia­tive. The Band gave its inau­gural con­cert at the Fry­deryk Chopin Acad­emy of Music Con­cert Hall on 27 march 2006 and was very suc­cess­ful. The Band is largely made up of stu­dents of the FCAM (now FCUM) Depart­ment of Instru­men­tal Stud­ies and is occa­sion­ally rein­forced by stu­dents of the Jazz Unit of the Fry­deryk Chopin Music School Com­plex in War­saw. Cur­rently the band’s per­for­mances are per­ma­nently present in the University’s con­cert cal­en­dar: last sea­son the artists gave a con­cert twice — the first time they pre­sented a med­ley of pop­u­lar jazz stan­dards, the sec­ond time in turn, together with the stu­dents of the Fry­deryk Chopin Music School Com­plex in War­saw, they had a sim­i­lat per­for­mance — Duke Ellingtos’s stan­dards — in the so-called big-band bat­tle, dur­ing which Duke Ellington’s stan­dards were per­formed. In 2007/2008 sea­son the group played mono­graphic con­certs devoted to the works by Gil Evans and Miles Davies while the pre­sen­ta­tions of the pre­vi­ous sea­son were con­certs titled Isnt’t she lovely and Our Songs.