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born in 1970, is among Poland’s leading
saxophonists. He also plays the zoucra. He has been a member and leader of
various groups, including the ‘Pierończyk Project’.
In 1997 he was named the Hope of Polish Jazz by the ‘Jazz Forum’
magazine. In 1997 and 1998 he was nominated for the ‘Fryderyk’
Award of the Polish Phonographic Academy in the ‘Best Jazzman of the
Year’ category. In 1999 the ‘Melomani’ Polish Musicians’
Association named him ‘Artist of the Year’. The daily
‘Gazeta Wyborcza’ included him among five Polish musicians who
have exerted the greatest influence on Polish jazz in the 21st century. In
2003 he received the ‘Jazz Angel’ Award of the Art-Theatre
Association, funded by the mayor of Bielsko-Biała, and the readers of
‘Jazz Forum’ voted him the best soprano saxophonist of the year.
Adam Pierończyk has collaborated with such musicians as Gary Thomas, Archie
Shepp, Bobby McFerrin, Ted Curson, Joey Calderazzo, and Ed Schuller.
Foreign tours have taken him to Great Britain, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria,
Hungary, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Italy, Israel, Kazakhstan,
Kyrgystan, Germany, Russia, Romania, the United States, Switzerland, Sweden
and Ukraine.
His performances have won enthusiastic reviews in the daily press and
musical periodicals (‘Gazeta Wyborcza’, ‘Newsweek’,
‘Audio’, ‘Cadence ny’, ‘Berliner Morgenpost’,
‘hi-fi’, ‘Frankfurter Allgemeine’).
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