Biography

Her premiere of the album "Woman In Black" was released by the Polish Radio Music Agency in 2017 at the Witold Lutosławski Studio. The album was highly acclaimed by music critics "Jazz Forum", "JazzPress" and many opinion weeklies. Songs for the album were specially composed for her by American jazzman Gary Guthman and recorded by renowned Polish musicians (Filip Wojciechowski - piano, Paweł Pańta-contrabass, Paweł Dobrowolski - drums, Michał Milczarek - guitar, Jacek Namysłowski - trombone and Marcin Kajper-saxophone and Gary Guthman - trumpet). ​ In 2017-2019, this program was presented at Summer Festival - Jerzy Waldorff in Radziejowice, Jazz All Souls, Manu Summer Jazz Sundays, Festival of the International Sanok Piano Forum, festival Arkady Sztuki, International Festival of Singer's Warsaw, Music at the Sources Festival in Bydgoszcz, "100 anniversary of establishing diplomatic relations between the United States and Poland" (a special concert commissioned by the Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland and the US Embassy) and a special concert at the 8th edition of Global Mentoring Walk organized by Vital Voices Chapter Poland 2019 supported by the US and Israel embassies. ​ In June 2019, Sasha Strunin released her "Self-portraits “album on SOLITON label, composed especially for her by Gary Guthman and dedicated to the poetry of Miron Białoszewski.