Something fun for a weary Wednesday. The MozART group is a cabaret and comedy string quartet based in Warsaw, Poland, known for their unique approach to classical music. The MozART group make frequent TV appearances including international galas and concerts. All four members are well educated instrumentalists who graduated from prestigious Academies of Music in Warsaw and Łódz, but they decided to play classical music in a humorous way. The MozART group created a worldwide unique musical cabaret, where the music, not the words are the source of joy and laughter.
They say about themselves:“We exist despite the sober formality of great concert halls, despite the boredom of classical musicians’ life, despite fanatic lovers of classical music, despite fans of rock, rap or pop who are afraid of classical music. We treat our Muse with a humorous irony and we’re sure, she will have nothing against it!” MozART group
The musicians of the MozART group have been playing together since 1995. At the beginning, they presented short musical jokes on Canal Plus Television and gave their first debut in 1997 at the PAKA competition of young Polish cabarets in Krakow. In the same year, they presented their first cabaret program entitled “Mozart’s still alive” and since then, they have given concerts in all of Europe, Canada, the U.S.A and Asia. The quartet also performances with colleagues around the world including shows with the mime Irek Krosny or the multitalent Bobby McFerrin.
In the group’s first show, they took Antonio Vivaldi as their patron. It was entitled “The Four Seasons à la MozART group”. Similar subtitle has their CD “Creatures” where each of the seasons begins the same way as Vivaldi’s compositions. Later on, however, it runs freely in the direction of various world songs about spring, summer, autumn and winter. This show provides the listener with over 70 minutes of a sophisticated, perfectly arranged, sublime fun! This is a just an extract.
Here they invite a member of the audience to join in with the music.
The group have now been playing together fpor 25 years and in an average year they will visit over 20 countries including France, Switzerland, Czech Republic and Germany. In 2017 the first time in their history, they took part in Just For Laughs – the worlds biggest and most important comedy festival, with a total of twenty shows in Montreal / Canada.
