Tomasz Spaliñski, Jacek P³osa, Franciszek Wieczorek, Katarina Wieczorekova, Mariusz Bury, Jan Kude³ka, Piotr Kude³ka, Krzysztof Ko³odziej
"There is nothing nicer than a guitar. Even if, there is something nicer, then it would be two guitars". These words are ascribed to Chopin. Interesting what he would have said (or rather heard) when he would have seen simultaneously eight guitars!
Silesian Guitar Octet is the only octet all over the world performing that has a stable structure. This musical body has been created in 2001 from the initiative of Franciszek Wieczorek. In the beginning the idea was to put together as many guitars as possible and at the same time not to create a guitar orchestra. Originally, each of the guitarists should have played his own part. Later on, the number of guitarists has become eight.
After finding of the excellent Silesian guitarists, there appeared some complication. The problem is that there are very few pieces written originally for the octet. This fact made Franciszek Wieczorek to carry out the transcription of many beautiful pearls for the orchestra music.
After long hours of playing, practicing, overcoming the difficulties, finally there came the time for the debut in Rybnik (in 15th March 2002). The octet was given ovations and later it became even better.
Silesian Guitar Octet has played with success in many concerts in Poland as well as abroad (Slovakia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Sweden, Denmark, Great Britain).
"Nie ma nic piêkniejszego od gitary.. chyba ¿e dwie". Te s³owa przypisuje siê Chopinowi. Ciekawe co by powiedzia³ gdyby zobaczy³ ( raczej US£YSZA£ ) jednocze¶nie 8 gitar!
¦l±ski Oktet Gitarowy to jedyny na ¶wiecie oktet wystêpuj±cy w sta³ym sk³adzie.
Zespó³ powsta³ w 2001 roku z inicjatywy Franciszka Wieczorka. W za³o¿eniu mia³ byæ to mo¿liwie najwiêkszy sk³ad nie bêd±cy orkiestr± gitarow± - ka¿dy z gitarzystów mia³ graæ w³asn±, autonomiczn± partiê. Stanê³o na ósemce.
Po zebraniu kompletu wybitnych ¶l±skich gitarzystów zaczê³y siê schody. Problemem by³ choæby repertuar - zaledwie gar¶æ utworów napisanych w orginale na oktet zmusi³a Franciszka Wieczorka do dokonania szeregu transkrypcji najwspanialszych pere³ek muzyki orkiestrowej. Efekty by³y (nadal s±) znakomite!
Po wielu godzinach prób i pokonaniu kilku barier ( choæby strojenie 8 gitar, zgranie, czy zachowanie proporcji ) przyszed³ czas na debiut w Rybniku (15 marca 2002). Zespó³ zosta³ przyjêty owacyjnie a pó¼niej by³o jeszcze lepiej...
¦l±ski Oktet Gitarowy koncertowa³ z sukcesami na wielu festiwalach w kraju i za granic± ( S³owacja, Czechy, Wêgry, Szwecja, Dania, Wielka Brytania)