There is plenty of things that happened since my last update.
My suite for an extended big band - Extreme Conditions - had it's premiere during my master's recital, we played it on 3 concerts in Austria maliciously using the kindness of the Graz Music Academy's own Jazz Institute. This is the moment when everybody should bow to Ed Partyka for making it happen, in very much every aspect.
Second thing that happened is a suprise project! It was a suprise to me, because I agreed to make an hour of string quartet arrangements for Amine & Hamza - tunisian oud and kanun virtuosos. The suprise part was the timeframe - i had to basically make everything in two weeks, so the players get another 3 days for practicing. A string quartet consisting of players coming over to Tunisia from Quebec, Indiana, Boston and Tunis was indeed delighted to see nearly an hour of string quartet madness where they expected long, long notes to play.
The CD was recorded in Tunisia - so another 2 weeks for changes, recordings, mixes and a day to relax - that was a great experience!
Also recording piano in Tunis is something definitely uncommon there, and was fun to see the tiny details like a blind man tuning the piano and telling me: "You are from Poland - I remember general Paderewski, great pianist."
It was great to get to know wonderful musicians all over the world - serbian percussionist Goran Milosevic, french guitar player Quentin Dujardin, strings -Sarah Wood, Lilian Belknap and Robin Ryczek (who also gave a masterclasses in Tunis as they were representatives of Cultures in Harmony organisation), Nidhal Jedali and of course Amine and Hamza M'raihi, and their great friends and family.

But that's not all as far the news goes - we recorded Stryjoin september - the weird trio - with Michał Bryndal and Maciej Szczyciński. We had a pleasure of winning some studio time in RG Studio in Radio Gdańsk - so we took the opportunity and extended that into a 3-day recording fest. We asked Błażej Domański - a nice and likeable guy working for Studio 7 in Piaseczno who has a tremendous ear for details to be the recording engineer for this one.

Where did my holidays go?

(update: thanks to Mr. William Harvey for reminding me that American master string players don't pop in by themselves as far as Tunis is concerned)