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BIO

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JOANNA DUDA is a leading figure on the contemporary European artistic scene, whose wide-ranging practice encompasses composition, improvisation, piano performance and visual art. Her distinctive voice within experimental music - organically blending jazz, classical and contemporary idioms - has gained international recognition at major festivals and in prestigious concert halls.

She consistently develops two core artistic projects: her solo work (albums: Keen - Alpaka Records 2019; Mouvements  - Monaural Poetry, 2025) and the internationally acclaimed Joanna Duda Trio (albums: Fumitsuke - Echo Productions, 2021; Delighted - Byrd Out, 2025).

Active on the European and international scene since 2017, Joanna Duda Trio has performed regularly at major musical institutions and venues such as Ronnie Scott’s (London), Le Périscope (Paris), Porgy & Bess (Vienna) and Dizzy’s Jazz Club (New York), as well as at festivals ranging from Jarasum Jazz Festival in Korea to Berlin JazzFest.

As an interdisciplinary, exploratory artist, Duda also develops visual-art projects and collaborates with creators from around the world - from work with American artist Maya Ciarocchi (Site:Yizkor, LoopCurrent), through experimental projects with baroque ensemble leader Morris Kliphuis (Wake The Dead, 2021–2024), to collaboration with Australian artists Helen Svoboda and Sunny Kim in The Great Reset, which in autumn 2025 was presented in a triple festival run at the Melbourne International Jazz Festival, London Jazz Festival and Jazztopad in Wrocław.

Her discography includes the contemporary-music album Unchained (Bołt Records), featuring compositions by Julius Eastman and nominated for the International Classical Music Awards, as well as her earlier long-term collaboration with Wojtek Mazolewski Quintet, awarded gold and platinum records.

Duda also composes for theatre and film and works in electronic and hip-hop contexts, collaborating with artists such as the rapper Bryndal.

MORE THAN MUSIC

Joanna Duda, as a multidisciplinary artist created:

  • TRACK(S) installation (Trafostacja Sztuki / Trafo Plug - in project room exhibition cycle, Szczecin 2015)

  • Flow video art (including Bookstore - Exhibition in Krakow, Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin, 2018)

  • Memory of Water video - art and installation (Polish-Japanese cooperation, 2016)

  • COVInstastory - video - art for Gdansk2020 exhibition, (2020)

  • Unendlicher Wald - inscrpition in the stone for Miasto, kocham festival (2022)