Concert hosts of the 28th edition of the Festival

A brilliant multi-instrumentalist, maker of folk instruments, a charismatic teacher, a retired schoolmaster. He learnt traditional music from the most celebrated masters in his region. He plays mainly wind instruments – a trembita, bagpipes, an ocarina, pipes, mountain shepherd pipes and a violin. He can delightfully play a leaf. As a soloist and a session musician, he frequently participates in various music projects involving professional artists. His interests by far transcend folk music. He is an artist, animator and traditional culture propagator of unequalled stature. He runs music and rite workshops as a theatre for children, and classes for university students and teachers, instructing participants how to listen intently to nature. He has collected his thoughts in a book entitled To Seize the Moment.

He has been associated with the FESTIVAL OF THE CHILDREN OF MOUNTAINS in Nowy Sącz since its first edition, as the concert director and the chief creator of the unique atmosphere.

An architect and a musician - a multi-instrumentalist, an educator.  By birth and avocation - a highlander and Zakopane inhabitant, who adheres to tradition and fights for its survival.

The founder and leader of the Trebunie-Tutki family band, which has made the music of the Polish highlanders popular in the whole wide world.  An author of radio broadcasts and talks, an originator and artistic producer of CDs with traditional highland music; a juror and compère at many festivals, e.g. the “New Tradition” Polish Radio Folk Festival, the Festival of Polish Highlanders’ Folklore in Żywiec, the Contest of Podhale Folk Music Bands. As a musician, he has been awarded a number of major prizes at all-Poland and international contests of traditional music. A creator of a pioneering current of New Highland Music, which is a creative continuation of the Rocky Podhale music, and an attempt at preserving it for future generations. He collaborates with outstanding world music artists, e.g. Twinkle Brothers from Jamaica, African Head Charge, Ordo Sakhna from Kyrgyzstan, Urmuli Quintet from Georgia, Andrew Cronshaw and Adrian Sherwood from London. He is a certified teacher of highland music (for 24 years he has been teaching youth at the “Jutrzenka” Tatra Culture Centre in Zakopane), and a lecturer in the “Culture of the Subtatra District” postgraduate study course at the Podhale State Vocational School.  He has many times been rewarded for his creative output and achievements. The year 2021 has seen a publication of “Music of the Rocky Podhale,” his three-volume textbook intended to be used in teaching how to play highland music on the violin and the double bass; the work has been published by Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne.