Jazz FM Vocalist of the Year 2025 Alice Zawadzki is Artist-in-Residence for Origins Unwrapped, creating unforgettable musical worlds where jazz, folk and classical traditions meet in a year-long residency exploring Polish folklore, family history, storytelling and song.
Alice Zawadzki presents a new version of her acclaimed chamber opera, Bag of Bones, an immersive work of inherited memory, Eastern European folklore and cultural severance, blending strings, accordion, keyboards and voice.
Blurring classical, jazz, folk and music theatre, Alice Zawadzki creates an elemental new song cycle inspired by her grandmother’s writing, with voices, percussion and instruments crafted from wood, water, glass and bone.
Vocalist, composer and multi-instrumentalist Alice Zawadzki beckons in ancient female figures of winter folklore, from Italy’s mischievous Befana to Iceland’s terrifying Grýla and Sweden’s radiant Lucia.