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Kwartet Jorgi has been producing since 1982 a unique, powerful, and hard-to-classify fusion of three musical traditions - classic, folk and jazz. Though with several CDs to their credit, they are most fully "in their element" on stage, with a legendary performative ability to "hypnotize" their audience.
Brothers Maciej Rychly and Waldemar RychBy are the core of Kwartet Jorgi. Maciej plays numerous kinds of Carpathian shepherds' pipes as well as medieval and ancient flutes which he reconstructs.
He is a musician, psychologist, and researcher on archaic forms in traditional musical culture. Since 1988 he has been cooperating with the Centre for Theatre Practices "Gardzienice" on development of the theatre's musical research. He regularly cooperates with Polish Radio and lectures at Warsaw University.
Waldemar RychBy plays the guitar and bells. After studying the Huculian old-harmonic way of playing cymbals he worked out his own peculiar technique of playing the guitar. In every musical project, the RychBy brothers cooperate with other musicians to enrich their compositions with the sounds of the violin, saxophone, percussion instruments, or other modern or traditional instruments.
Their musical research has covered some of the most interesting regions in Europe - Ukraine , Ireland , the Balkans - and Brazil , as well as the rich heritage of their own homeland, Wielkopolska. They are thus able to reconnect with the medieval and ancient roots of contemporary music to reveal what is eternal in musical culture. They are, incidentally but almost certainly, the smallest quartet in the world, as they play in trio.
Like Mariana Sadovska, they have been long-time musical collaborators with Gardzienice and many other theatre groups and film productions.
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