The Joanna Duda Trio was created at the end of 2017. Originally envisaged as an extension of Joanna’s solo explorations on her album KEEN, she quickly realized that she should create something completely different with the superb musicianship of Maksymilian Mucha on double bass and FX, and Michał Bryndal on drums and electronics.

The trio format allows her to use the acoustic piano in a way that she likes: rhythmic, percussive, figurative and ostinato. With the use of techniques taken from classic etudes or Bach – long unisons and short polyphones, a lot of chords and few sounds, beats and meditation, soft and loud, serious and fun – the common denominators for the trio’s sound are intellect, understanding through listening, and the feeling that they put into this music.

Active as a pianist, composer and visual artist, Joanna Duda’s style is experimental with elements of improvisation, jazz and widely understood contemporary music. Her musical output includes a solo project (KEEN, released on Alpaka, 2019) and the Joanna Duda Trio with double bassist Maksymilian Mucha and drummer Michał Bryndal (FUMITSUKE, released 2022). Both are characterized by combining electronic with acoustic sounds in an osmotic, organic and multilayered manner. Recently, Duda composed music for the Erotica 2022 series, the first Polish films for Netflix (premiere 2020), and the cinema release Cudak (directed by Anna Kazejak, premiere 2021). Her art, music and collaborations have taken her across the globe to Vancouver, Tokyo, Kaliningrad, Beijing, Delhi, Istanbul, Bucharest, Berlin, Weimar, London, Dublin, Oslo and Nuuk (Greenland).