Teachers – Maksymilian Olszewski

fot. Marlena Faerber

Drummer, born in 1994. Max is the winner of the 1st prize in the Mapex Drummer of Tomorrow competition in Opole. He was also a five-time winner of the Jazz Juniors Festival in Kraków, a runner-up three times and a Jazz Juniors Grand Prix winner twice. In 2021, at the same festival, he was honored for the first time with the prize of the name of Janusz Muniak. He also won the 1st prize at the Krokus Jazz Festival. Together with Kuba Banaszek Quartet, he won the Grand Prix of the XXI Ogólnopolski Przegląd Zespołów Jazzowych i Bluesowych in Gdynia and received the award for the best instrumentalist. He also won the Grand Prix at the prestigious Jazz Nad Odrą Festival in 2019 with the same quartet. Max performs with various bands in Poland, Europe and Asia. He is also an enthusiastic performer of classical music, his experience comes from many years of cooperation with the Filharmonia Pomorska in Bydgoszcz as a teenager. Currently, he collaborates with many jazz musicians in Poland and is a co-founder of several creative bands with which he performs.