Marek Napiórkowski


Marek Napiórkowski is a Polish jazz guitarist and composer.

Music career

He has worked with Pat Metheny, Richard Bona, Mino Cinelu, Marcus Miller, Angelique Kidjo, John Taylor, Dhafer Youssef, Gregoire Maret, Adam Holzman, Sugar Blue, Ivan Lins, Clarence Penn, Anna Maria Jopek, Tomasz Stańko, Leszek Możdżer, Hadrien Feraud, Dorota Miśkiewicz, Henryk Miśkiewicz, Urszula Dudziak, Ewa Bem, Klaus Doldinger, Janusz Muniak, Tomasz Szukalski, Krzysztof Ścierański, and Jan "Ptaszyn" Wróblewski.
He has appeared on over 140 albums and toured around Europe, Canada, U.S., Japan, Brasil, Mexico, Indonesia, China, Korea, and Russia.
In 2002 he participated in Pat Metheny & Anna Maria Jopek’s album called Upojenie and also took part in two concerts following the release of the album.
He has released four original albums. Three of them were nominated for the Polish music award Fryderyk in Jazz Album of the Year and Jazz Musician of the Year categories. 6 June 2005 was the year when NAP album was released featuring Leszek Możdżer, Anna Maria Jopek and Henryk Miśkiewicz.
On 1 July 2007 the acoustic album Wolno was released, in co-operation with Mino Cinelu, Gregoire Maret, Anna Maria Jopek. The album reached gold status in Poland.
Album firmed by Marek Napiórkowski Trio is called KonKubiNap and was recorded live with Robert Kubiszyn and Cezary Konrad.
UP! was recorded with Clarence Penn, Adam Pierończyk, Krzysztof Herdzin, Henryk Miśkiewicz, Robert Kubiszyn and nine pieces symphonic musicians chamber band.
In 2015 an album Celuloid with his friend from Jelenia Góra, guitarist Artur Lesicki was released. On the album duo recorded notable Polish film and TV series main themes.
The newest album Trójka Live was released in 14 October 2016.
In a Jazz Top survey carried out among readers of Jazz Forum, Marek was chosen as the Jazz Guitarist of the Year 2012–2015.

Solo albums

with Anna Maria Jopek