The performers include members of the Marcin Wasilewski Trio: Marcin Wasilewski, Sławomir Kurkiewicz and Michał Miśkiewicz, who played with Stańko as part of the Tomasz Stańko Quartet for over 15 years.
The event will also feature young British talent, including guitarist Rob Luft, saxophonist Emma Rawicz and singer Alice Zawadzki, as well as members of the BBC Concert Orchestra.
The programme of the concert includes a wide selection of Stańko’s compositions, alongside tunes such as Krzysztof Komeda’s "Lullaby" from Roman Polanski’s 1968 film Rosemary’s Baby in Stańko’s arrangement.
2022 marks the 80th anniversary of the birth of Tomasz Stańko, who died on July 29, 2018.
His career spanned almost six decades. Having come to prominence in the early 1960s, he collaborated with the likes of Adam Makowicz, Zbigniew Seifert, Dave Holland, Rufus Reid, Lester Bowie and David Murray.
The Queen Elizabeth Hall on London's South Bank writes on its website that Stańko’s “meditative, brooding sound was instantly recognisable."
It quotes an opinion by a music critic with The Guardian newspaper: “Nobody holds a single, long-blown trumpet note like Stańko."
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