Joanna Duda founded the Trio in 2017, with the idea that the sound would become the ensemble’s hallmark and its defining quality. She treats the jazz trio format as one of many conventions she explores alongside Maksymilian Mucha (double bass) and Michał Bryndal (drums). All the band members also incorporate electronic elements – effects, samplers, and sequencers. Joanna Duda Trio has, in recent years, firmly established itself on the European music scene, regularly performing at major jazz festivals that champion innovative approaches to jazz and improvisational music, such as Berlin JazzFest, Jazzweek Cologne, Leipziger Jazztage, Jazztopad, and International Jazz Platform. The group has played on some of the most prestigious jazz stages across Europe, including Porgy & Bess in Vienna, Opus Jazz Club in Budapest, Le Periscope in Lyon, Ronnie Scott’s in London, as well as in the USA at Dizzy’s Jazz Club in New York.
In 2019, Joanna Duda released her first solo album, KEEN. The album contains electro-acoustic work; you can hear the piano sounds, which are direct and prepared in a long process. Joanna also uses synths, all types of sampling, and weird beat divisions. She is planting and growing her sounds into multiplied layers consisting of one organic, living texture.
She found an alternative idea for an album that would be expected from her, mainly recognized as a pianist. A few years ago, she started to perform solo with a computer, constructing instruments out of samples she collected, together with analog synths and other objects (such as a dictaphone, for example), which led her into new interesting fields of constructing sounds. Another part of developing her sound language was the experience of performing live with the physical dance/butoh theatre. On the album KEEN, she included that substance together with brilliant classical and jazz piano skills, extracting the spirit of contemporary acoustic/electronic music as a main layer and implicitly intelligence dance music.