SOLO
In his repertoire, Jakub Muras has a majority of original literature for alto and soprano saxophone with accompaniment of a symphony, chamber and wind orchestra.
The artist is the recipient of major awards in over 20 international and national solo competitions and has performed numerous times in the company of symphony and chamber orchestras, including the Festival Orchestra Un Violon sur le Sable (Royan, France), the Baltic Philharmonic, the Warmian-Masurian Philharmonic, the Vilnius Chamber Orchestra (Lithuania) and the Płock Symphony Orchestra.
The WHOOP Group
The most recognizable Polish saxophone quartet. In addition to the Artist, the group includes the most outstanding Polish saxophonists: Mateusz Dobosz, Krzysztof Koszowski and Szymon Zawodny.
The WHOOP Group actively perform both in the country and abroad, mainly playing classical and contemporary music in their own arrangements, as well as film, entertainment and jazz music. The band also performs as soloists with symphony orchestras and big bands. The quartet members combine virtuosity and liveliness with musicality and perfection. They are developing at a lightning speed and are enjoying extraordinary recognition from audiences all over the world (the video of their recording of Vivaldi's Storm - actually the finale of the G Minor Concerto RV 315 - currently has over 30 million views on the Internet). The WHOOP Group were nominated for the Koryfeusz Muzyki Polskiej Award in 2018 in the Discovery of the Year category.
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Muras/Brzezina Duo
For many years, Jakub Muras has been working together with the excellent accordionist Łukasz Brzezina.
In 2018, the ensemble was rewarded the Bank Societe Generale scholarship for their accomplishments, which allowed them to put out their record Cameral Stories. They render classical and modern pieces in their own adaptations, unveiling the wealth of sonorities and styles stemming from the merge of saxophone and accordion - two instruments that are a bit neglected in the realm of classical music.
Muras/Skowrońska Duo
The saxophone and piano are the most recognizable and frequent pairing of the saxophone with another instrument in classical literature.
Jakub Muras has been collaborating in this formation for many years, alongside his sister, the outstanding pianist Agata Skowrońska. The duo mainly performs chamber pieces that belong to the strict canon of saxophone and piano literature. The musicians also often reach for chamber pieces from the literature of other instruments, which they present to the audience in their own transcriptions and arrangements.
Warsaw Saxophone Orchestra
Saxophone orchestra composed of students and graduates of the saxophone class of Prof. Pawel Gusnar at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw.
Since its inception, Jakub Muras has been part of the Warsaw Saxophone Orchestra, consisting of students and graduates from the saxophone class at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music. In 2022, the band released their first album, Debut, through Chopin University Press. The following year, 2023, this album was awarded the esteemed Fryderyk Award in the category Album of the Year – Orchestral Music.
