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Formed in 2001, The duo of clarinettist Jan Jakub Bokun and accordionist-composer Michał Moc has been delighting audiences with their natural sense of style, musical wit, and energy. Their ease with the latin american repertoire has won them great critical acclaim. Offering music that is at the same time sophisticated and accessible, they are performing French music by Richard Galliano, Gabriel Pierné, Eugene Bozza, contemporary jazz influenced works arranged by themselves, as well as Polish music by Bogdan Precz, Wojciech Kilar and Michał Moc. ...To be noted most particulary is Bokun's incredible musical sensitivity and improvisational skills in Oblivion. I found myself forgetting about clarinet music altogether and listening to gorgeous melodies. Bokun is accompanied by virtuoso accordion artist Michał Moc, who simply knocked the wind out of me with his awesome virtuosity. Moc also shines in both pieces by Richard Galliano: French Touch and Tango pour Claude. French Touch is reason enough to hurry and acquire this CD. All tracks with Moc as a duo partner are my favorites on the CD. Michelle Gingras, The Clarinet Chosen program proposals:
Michał Moc was born in Wrocław (Poland), studied at the city's Karol Szymanowski State High School of Music and at present is an undergraduate at its Academy of Music studying composition with Grażyna Pstrokońska-Nawratil and accordion with Zbigniew Łuc. He has performed as accordionist - solo and with orchestra - at concert venues in numerous Polish cities as well as during the 'Warsaw Autumn' festival, 'Poznań Spring' festival and the 'Musica Polonica Nova' festival. He has won several Polish accordion competitions, namely in Chełm (1994, 1996), Zgierz (1995) and in Mława (1995). He was also a prize-winner at the 4th Contemporary Music Competition for Young Performers (Warsaw/Radziejowice 2001). He has won success at several composers' competitions including the 'Gaude Mater' Competition in Częstochowa in 1999 (Second Prize), Andrzej Panufnik National Composers' Competition in Cracow in 2000 (First Prize) and the Franz Josef Reinl Foundation International Competition in Vienna/Munich in 2001 (Third Prize). In 1999-2002 he received a scholarship from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage as well as the 'Socrates-Erasmus' scholarship for studies in the Netherlands (which he completed under R. Dowland). He also holds scholarships from Wrocław City Council and the 'Kiwanis Wratislavia' Club sponsored by Miroslaw Wróbel at the Mercedes-Benz Company.
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