Maciej Sikala

Maciej Sikała (born 1961 in Gdansk) is a jazz tenor and soprano saxophonist, composer, and educator. As an educator, Maciej is currently Lecturer in Jazz Saxophone at the Academy of Music in Gdansk and the Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz.

He co-operated, performed and recorded with many top Polish jazz musicians such as Jan Ptaszyn Wróblewski, Henryk Miśkiewicz, Tomasz Szukalski, Leszek Możdżer, Piotr Wojtasik, Jarosław Śmietana, Leszek Kułakowski, Kuba Stankiewicz, Wojciech Karolak and numerous foreign musicians including Lester Bowie, David Liebman, Ronnie Burrage, Billy Harper, Wayne Dockery, John Betsch, Kenny Wheeler, Eddie Henderson, Tim Haggans and David Kikoski.

He has recorded more than 70 compact discs, six of which under his own name. Two of them were nominated to the “Fryderyk” award. For a couple of years he has been conducting classes at jazz workshops in Pultusk, Chodziez and Nysa. He performed in Germany, Russia, Bulgaria, The Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Belarus, Lithuania, France, Sweden, Moldova, Mexico, Romania, Canada, Israel, Austria, Italy and Ukraine.

First prize winner in the tenor saxophone category of the Jazz Forum Magazine readers’ poll “Jazz Top” in the years 1995 -2005, 2010 and 2012-2023 and soprano saxophone category in the years 2012, 2015, 2016 and 2019.

Photo credit: Michal Szperling