Robert Wypasek

Born in 1999, he is a Polish tenor and soprano saxophonist and composer. He is a student at the FHNW Musik Akademie in Basel and a distinguished graduate of the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice. He has been nominated for the Fryderyk Awards in 2024, 2022, and 2020 in the "Debut of the Year - Jazz" category with the ensembles Horntet, Superminimalism, Paweł Mańka Semiotic Quintet, and Andrzej Kowalski Quartet.

He has won multiple top awards, both individually and with ensembles, at prestigious jazz competitions such as B'jazz Burghausen (2024), Jazz Juniors (2021, 2020), Jazz nad Odrą (2022, 2020, 2019), Lotos Jazz Festival Bielska Zadymka Jazzowa (2022, 2019), and many more. He has performed as a leader or sideman at festivals like Nisville Jazz Festival (Serbia), Polska Jazz Festival (Hungary), Warsaw Summer Jazz Days, Lotos Jazz Festival Bielska Zadymka Jazzowa, Złota Tarka, Jazz nad Odrą, Jazz Juniors, Jazz in the Ruins, and the Tarnów Azoty Jazz Contest.

He has collaborated with leading figures on the Polish and international music scenes, including Joakim Milder, Jan Ptaszyn Wróblewski, Nikola Kołodziejczyk, Dominik Wania, Tomasz Dąbrowski, Maciej Obara, Grzech Piotrowski, Krzesimir Dębski, Ewa Bem, Bernard Maseli, and many others. In 2024, he worked with the French National Jazz Orchestra (ONJ) on the Orchestre des Jeunes program.

While studying at the FHNW Musik Akademie Basel - Jazz Campus, he collaborated with the Pablo Held Trio, Philip Dizack, Jason Palmer, Nicole McCabe, as well as Lionel Loueke, Tineke Postma, and Jim McNeely through the Amsterdam Basel Creative Collective exchange program.