Adam Pieronczyk
Adam Pierończyk (born January 24, 1970, Elblag) is a Polish jazz saxophonist and composer . He started playing saxophone at age 18 and at that time, moved to Germany with his family. He studied at the Jazz Department of Folkwang University of the Arts (Essen, Germany),[1] graduated in 1996 and moved back to Poland. He plays tenor, soprano and alto saxophone as well as Arabic zoucra.
Pierończyk is a winner of multiple awards, both musical and cultural. Among them, double Polish industry music awards - Fryderyk (the Polish Grammy) [2] for Artist of the Year, Best Jazz CD of the Year, Jazz Melomani etc. and has been chosen Best Soprano Saxophonist of the Year for the 11th consecutive year by Jazz Forum, a Polish jazz magazine.
Served as Artistic Director for the Jazz aux Oudayas festival and Jazz Au Chellah in Rabat, Morocco in 2004-2005, and as Artistic Director of the Sopot Jazz Festival[3] in Poland - 2011 -2015. He also composes music for theatre. He currently resides in Kraków, Poland.
Discography
Title | Recorded | Released | Label | Notes |
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Temathe - Water Conversations | 10/1995 Saarbrücken, Germany | 01/1996 | TEMATHE / Germany | with Jan Oestreich, Christian Fischer |
Plastinated Black Sheep | 03/1999 | 06/1999 | NOT TWO & HiFi / Poland MW 710-2 | with Ed Schuler, Jacek Kochan |
Plastiline Black Sheep | 05/2001 Berlin | 09/2001 | Meta Records / Germany (Meta 012) | with Johannes Fink, Maurice de Martin |
Anniversary Concert for Hestia | 06/1996 | 08/1996 | DUX & Hestia / Poland | Duet with Leszek Mozdzer |
Leszek Mozdzer/Adam Pierończyk "19-9-1999" | 09/1999 Ukraine | 04/2000 | Polish Institute in Kiev & J.R.C. Jazz / Ukraine | |
Leszek Mozdzer /Adam Pierończyk "19-9-1999" | 09/1999 Ukraine | 09/2003 | GOWI Records / Poland (CDG 57) | |
Leszek Mozdzer/Adam Pierończyk Live in Sofia | 13/1997 Sofia, Bulgaria | 05/1998 | NOT TWO / Poland (MW 701-2) | |
Adam Pierończyk Trio - Few Minutes in the Space | 02/1997 Kraków, Poland | 05/1997 | GOWI Records / Poland (CDG 43) | with Adam Kowalewski, Jacek Olter, Zbigniew Namyslowski |
Adam Pierończyk Digivoco feat. Gary Thomas | 11/2000 Freiling, Austria | 06/2001 | PAO RECORDS / Austria (PAO 10230) | with Gary Thomas, Gunnar Geisse, Maurice de Martin, Tadeusz Sunday |
Amusos | 09/2002 Berlin | 10/2003 | PAO RECORDS / Austria (PAO 10900) | with Mina Agossi, Henning Sieverts, Adam Kowalewski, Tadeusz Sudnik, Daniel Schroeteler |
Adam Pierończyk Trio - Busem po
São Paulo |
07/2005, São Paulo, Brazil | 05/2006 | META Records / Germany | with Krzysztof Dziedzic, Robert Kubiszyn, Guello, Anna Serafinska |
Adam Pierończyk Trio - Live in Berlin | 11/2005, Berlin | 01/2007 | META Records / Germany | with Ed Schuller, Krzysztof Dziedzic |
Adam Pierończyk Trio - Live at A38 DVD | 03/2007, Budapest, Hungary | 08/2008 | SP Records, Poland (SPDVD 01/08) | with Andrzej Swies, Krzysztof Dziedzic |
Adam Pierończyk Quartet - El Buscador | 01/2008, Gdansk, Poland | 01/2010 | JazzWerkstatt Berlin / Germany (JW 064) | with Adrian Mears, Anthony Cox, Krzysztof Dziedzic |
Borys Szyc / Adam Pierończyk - Gajcy | 12/2009 Niepolomice, Poland | 03/2010 | Muzeum Powstania Warszawskiego | |
Adam Pierończyk - Komeda - The Innocent Sorcerer | 11/2009, Warsaw, Poland | 11/2010 | JazzWerkstatt Berlin /Germany (JW 104) | with Gary Thomas, Nelson Veras, Anthony Cox, Lukasz Zyta |
Adam Pierończyk - The Planet of Eternal Life | 06/2013 Peitz, Germany | 11/2013 | JazzWerkstatt Berlin / Germany (JW 149) | solo soprano saxophone album |
Adam Pierończyk Quartet - A-Trane Nights | 01/2008 Berlin, Germany | 10/2014 | For Tune / Poland 0040(028) | LIVE with Adrian Mears, Anthony Cox, Krzysztof Dziedzic |
Adam Pierończyk Migratory Poets, feat. Anthony Joseph | 11/2014 Katowice, Poland | 04/2015 | For Tune / Poland 0061(039) | with Anthony Joseph, Nelson Veras, Robert Kubiszyn, John B. Arnold |
Adam Pierończyk / Miroslav Vitous - Wings | 31/08 -01/09/2015 Gdansk, Poland | 11/2015 | For Tune / Poland
0084(054) |
duo album |
References
- ↑ "MUSIK". www.folkwang-uni.de. Retrieved 2015-05-31.
- ↑ "Fryderyk music award :: Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry". zpav.pl. Retrieved 2015-05-31.
- ↑ "SopotJazz". www.sopotjazz.pl. Retrieved 2015-05-31.
- http://culture.pl/pl/tworca/adam-pieronczyk
- http://www.popmatters.com/archive/tag/adam+pieronczyk/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20101019095655/http://www.culture.pl/de/culture/artykuly/os_mozdzer_leszek
- http://www.vortexjazz.co.uk/event/adam-pieronczyk-anthony-joseph-and-mikrokolektyw/
- http://www.mtv.com/artists/adam-pieroczyk-1/biography/
- http://culture.pl/en/event/krzysztof-komedas-jazz-tribute-to-polish-poetry
- http://culture.pl/en/artist/adam-pieronczyk
- http://www.popmatters.com/review/138308-adam-pieronczyk-komeda-the-innocent-sorcerer/
- http://www.allaboutjazz.com/various-artists-the-best-of-polish-jazz-2005-by-chris-may.php
- http://news.tripsbytips.de/verschiedenes/jazz-fest-berlin-2011-treffpunkt-internationaler-jazzmusiker-und-jazzliebhaber/