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Aga Derlak is a recipient of FRYDERYK 2016 - the most important in Poland Music award - the phonography award of Polish Society of Audio and Video Producers. Aga Derlak is a pianist, composer and educator. She works as an assistant professor at Jazz Department of Maria Curie- Sklodowska University in Lublin, Poland. She is an alumnus of Berklee College of Music and Karol Szymanowski Music Academy in Katowice (Poland). She was shaping her talent under the guidance of Danilo Perez, the pianist of the Wayne Shorter Quartet. Aga performs and runs workshops around the world. She cooperated with Andree Hayward, Claudio Ragazzi, Luciana Souza, Patricia Zarate, Zbigniew Namysłowski, Nikola Kołodziejczyk, Mauricio Morales, Jerzy Małek, Grzech Piotrowski, Sabina Meck, Michał Tomaszczyk and many others. In 2013 Aga established her own band that she recorded three original albums with: "First Thought" (2015); "Healing" (2017) and the latest one, premiered this year - "Parallel" (2023).The band won some of the most prestigious music awards in Europe and has been invited to prominent international Jazz Festivals f.eg. Panama Jazz Festival, Jazztopad in NY, Ecuador Jazz Festival, Mallorca Jazz Festival, XJazz Berlin and many others.

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