Guitarist and composer

Janusz Strobel was born in Gdansk in 1947 to a known musical family. He was given his first violin and piano lessons by his parents. At the age of 12, influenced by jazz music and advised by his older brother, his great interest in the guitar began.

After several years of playing in many different jazz bands he has become a proffesional musician. He established his first own group in 1970. A year later he won a prize at the ‘Jazz nad Odra’ Festival in Wroclaw. Since then Janusz Strobel has launched concert activites across Poland and in nearly all of Europe.
Founder and leader of a number of jazz groups (for example STROBEL-WOLINSKI QUARTET czy STROBEL-BISKUPSKI-BOGDANOWICZ TRIO). He played with many outstanding Polish musicians. He feels best playing in a guitar-bass-drums trio, but occasionaly he also plays willingly in solo concerts which give him opportunity for free interpretation of classical guitar music.

The seventies mark Strobel’s career as a composer (being encouraged to do so by Łucja Prus i Jan Wolek). His debut was a song GŁUPI ALBO GRA. Since then he wrote more than 40 song for such stars of the polish music scene as: Irena Santor, Ewa Bem, Edyta Geppert, Ryszard Rynkowski, and also Hanna Banaszak, whom his often accompanies during her concerts. Strobel started composing music for feature films and for the theatres.

A recognized and popular composer and arranger Strobel has scored a dozen or so recordings and publushed music. Lately he is also involved in teaching.
He is a fine stylist of the polish music scene. (...)His compositions are of the highest standards. (...) Strobel does not need to prove to anyone his mastery of guitar (...). Marcin Kydryński.

Janusz’s exceptionality lies in the fact of being one of these artists who, above all, value good taste in all their artistic activities(...). Jaroslaw Smietana.