Oktawia Kawęcka
Oktawia Kawęcka (born 1985 in Radom, Poland) is a vocalist, flautist, arranger, and also the leader of her own band. She performs her own arrangements- different shades of jazz, worldwide standards of classical music which she arranges combining fresh and modern sounds at the same time keeping her attitude and devotion towards the mainstream jazz music. Her reportoire includes songs in Polish, English, French, Spanish, Greek, Portuguese and Italian. She is currently studying at F. Chopin Music Academy in Warsaw, Poland.
Oktawia Kawęcka has been performing since her childhood, winning many acclaimed awards at Polish and international music festivals, including, for example, Polish TV channel 1 award at the International Music and Dance Festival in Konin. Since her early years, she has also performed in numerous theatre plays. She has recorded for radio and TV- Polish National Radio, Jazzradio, Radio Kraków, Polish TVP1, TVP2, TVP3 and Polsat TV stations.
Oktawia's debut album will be released in mid September 2008. Her modern arrangements put significant emotional emphasis on the Polish composers and their works. Apart from her own songs, the album includes a jazz waltz inspired by an Etude of Frédéric Chopin, works by Stanislaw Moniuszko, worldwide renowned jazz musician Michal Urbaniak, Jerzy Wasowski, Jeremi Przybora. Oktawia was one of the first musicians in Poland to record two songs composed by an Oscar-winning composer Bronislaw Kaper.[1]