Żywieckie Suwakowanie 

XX edition of the largest trombone and tuba
event in Poland 
 July 19-25, 2026

Grzegorz Nagórski – trombonist, euphonium player, and composer. His professional debut took place at the Jazz Pianists Festival in Kalisz in 1982, performing with the band of Jan Ptaszyn Wróblewski. He is a graduate of the Academy of Music in Katowice (1993) and the University of Miami (USA), which he also completed in 1993. During his stay in the United States, he collaborated with the Inter/Outer Continental Jazz Quintet led by multi-instrumentalist Ira Sullivan, and performed with artists such as Ray Charles, Tito Puente, Joe Henderson, Jimmy Heath, Michael Brecker, Maria Schneider, Phil Woods, Slide Hampton, Arturo Sandoval, John Fedchock, and Red Rodney. From 1995 to 1996, he was a member of the “Charlie Persip and Superband,” with whom he worked during his time in New York.

After returning to Poland in 1996, Grzegorz Nagórski continued his artistic activity, collaborating with artists such as Billy Harper, Maria Schneider, Piotr Wojtasik, Adam Pierończyk, Joe Lovano, Billy Cobham, Aga Zaryan, Kirk Lightsey, Michael Philip Mossman, Bobo Stenson, Joakim Milder, Zbigniew Namysłowski, Chick Corea, Henryk Miśkiewicz, Maciej Sikała, Kuba Stankiewicz, Robert Majewski, and Piotr Wyleżoł. In 2000, as a member of the jazz orchestra Jazz Big Band Graz (Austria), he worked with one of the greatest arrangers and composers of all time, Bob Brookmeyer. This collaboration resulted in the album “Jazz Big Band Graz Plays the Music of Bob Brookmeyer.”

In 2015, he joined the Piotr Wyleżoł Sextet, with which he recorded the album “Human Things” (released in 2018). Since 2017, he has been collaborating with outstanding Polish jazz vocalist Aga Zaryan as part of her European Jazz Sextet, resulting in the albums “High & Low” and “What Christmas Means to Me” (both released in 2018). In 2019 and 2021, he performed with the Swedish jazz orchestra Norrbotten Big Band under the direction of Joakim Milder, alongside pianist Bobo Stenson and vocalist Josefine Cronholm. Since 2020, he has served as the artistic director and conductor of Poland’s only professional jazz orchestra – the Silesian Jazz Big Band. In 2022, the ensemble released its debut album “A Wide Spectrum,” which was highly acclaimed by both audiences and critics. His discography includes around fifty albums. He has performed in the United States, Canada, Brazil, Israel, Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Italy, Croatia, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine, as well as at major jazz festivals in Poland.

He has taught at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton (USA), the State Higher Vocational School in Nysa, and the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław. He currently teaches at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice and the Academy of Music in Kraków. In 2019, he was awarded the title of Professor of Musical Arts.