**August 9, 2024, 6:00 PM**

The third day of the jubilee XX International Jazz Festival - Jazz in  Ruins!
We cordially invite you to the third day of the Jazz in Ruins festival!

**1st concert - 7:00 PM**

Aga Derlak Quartet

The Aga Derlak Quartet takes listeners into a world of unrestrained expression and creative freedom. The winner of the Fryderyk Award 2016 for Phonographic Debut of the Year and the Fryderyk Award 2023 for Album of the Year and Artist of the Year, Aga Derlak stands out for her courage and innovation, which fully reflect her music.

Aga Derlak, a graduate of Berklee College of Music and the Academy of Music in Katowice, creates a unique blend of jazz, European classical music, and Latin American folklore. Her compositions are full of passion, personal experiences, and inspirations that intermingle to create unique sounds and emotions.

The quartet consists of outstanding musicians with whom Aga performs worldwide, from Poland to the USA, Mexico, Panama, the UK, and many other countries. Their music dances between the explicit and the implied, the direct and the subtle, full of courage and honesty in the search for deeper meaning.

**Band members:**

- Aga Derlak – piano, keyboards
- Wojciech Lichtański – saxophones
- Andrzej Święs - double bass
- Madej – drums

Experience the magic of live music during the extraordinary Jazz in the Ruins festival. Aga Derlak Quartet offers an evening full of unforgettable impressions that will transport you to a new, fascinating world of emotions and sounds. Be there to feel the true essence of jazz performed by some of the best young musicians on the scene!

**2nd concert - 9:00 PM**

Eli Bennett Quartet

Prepare for an absolutely exceptional concert by the outstanding young Canadian saxophonist: Eli Bennett Quartet, a band that will immerse you in a world of dynamic and diverse sounds. Eli Bennett, a renowned Canadian saxophonist and film composer from Vancouver, has received numerous awards and accolades worldwide.

An internationally acclaimed tenor saxophonist, Leo Award-winning film composer, and nominee for Covenant and ICM Awards as “Producer of the Year,” Eli Bennett is one of Canada's most awarded and recognized emerging musicians.

Bennett has performed at the Vatican, The Grand Ole Opry, twice at the GRAMMY Awards ceremony in Los Angeles, at the Montreal International Jazz Festival, and shared the stage with artists such as Oscar Peterson, Terence Blanchard, Chris Potter, the Neville Brothers, and opened for jazz legend Herbie Hancock. He is a two-time winner of the CBC Galaxie Rising Star Award given by the National Jazz Awards and the Ottawa International Jazz Festival, and he has been honored with the Vancouver Mayor’s Arts Award in Music and the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal from the Premier of British Columbia.

Bennett's debut album "Breakthrough," released in 2014, received international acclaim, spending three months on the iTunes Canada Jazz homepage as one of the best-selling albums of the year and earning a nomination for the Western Canadian Jazz Award for “Jazz Album of the Year.”

As the producer of his wife's weekly YouTube hymn show, titled Sunday Hymn Serenade, Bennett has produced over 250 episodes since its premiere in 2019, and his recordings have garnered over 100 million views. Bennett also received a letter of thanks from Queen Elizabeth II for his rendition of “God Save The Queen,” which he recorded, arranged, and produced with his wife Rosemary Siemens and their duo SaxAndViolin, accompanied by a 400-piece symphony orchestra and choir, composed solely of the two of them.

As a musician with Polish roots, Bennett is particularly excited to perform music from his award-winning album "Breakthrough" at the Jazz in the Ruins festival in Gliwice. Finally, we will have the opportunity to listen to this outstanding young artist in Poland!

For more information about Eli Bennett and his work: [www.elibennett.com](http://www.elibennett.com)