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, 18 nominations in 12 different categories and 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. Adam Pierończyk has worked with musicians such as: Miroslav Vitous, Trilok Gurtu, Gary Thomas, Greg Osby, Sam Rivers, Archie Shepp, Bobby McFerrin, Tomasz Stańko, Ted Curson, Anthony Cox, Joey Calderazzo, and Leszek Możdżer.

Discography

TitleRecordedReleasedLabelNotes
Temathe - Water Conversations10/1995 Saarbrücken, Germany01/1996TEMATHE / Germanywith Jan Oestreich, Christian Fischer
Plastinated Black Sheep03/199906/1999NOT TWO & HiFi / Poland MW 710-2with Ed Schuler, Jacek Kochan
Plastiline Black Sheep05/2001 Berlin09/2001Meta Records / Germany (Meta 012)with Johannes Fink, Maurice de Martin
Anniversary Concert for Hestia06/199608/1996DUX & Hestia / PolandDuet with Leszek Mozdzer
Leszek Mozdzer/Adam Pierończyk "19-9-1999"09/1999 Ukraine04/2000Polish Institute in Kiev & J.R.C. Jazz / Ukraine
Leszek Mozdzer /Adam Pierończyk "19-9-1999"09/1999 Ukraine09/2003GOWI Records / Poland (CDG 57)
Leszek Mozdzer/Adam Pierończyk Live in Sofia13/1997 Sofia, Bulgaria05/1998NOT TWO / Poland (MW 701-2)
Adam Pierończyk Trio - Few Minutes in the Space02/1997 Kraków, Poland05/1997GOWI Records / Poland (CDG 43)with Adam Kowalewski, Jacek Olter, Zbigniew Namyslowski
Adam Pierończyk Digivoco feat. Gary Thomas11/2000 Freiling, Austria06/2001PAO RECORDS / Austria (PAO 10230)with Gary Thomas, Gunnar Geisse, Maurice de Martin, Tadeusz Sunday
Amusos09/2002 Berlin10/2003PAO 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, Brazil05/2006META Records / Germanywith Krzysztof Dziedzic, Robert Kubiszyn, Guello, Anna Serafinska
Adam Pierończyk Trio - Live in Berlin11/2005, Berlin01/2007META Records / Germanywith Ed Schuller, Krzysztof Dziedzic
Adam Pierończyk Trio - Live at A38 DVD03/2007, Budapest, Hungary08/2008SP Records, Poland (SPDVD 01/08)with Andrzej Swies, Krzysztof Dziedzic
Adam Pierończyk Quartet - El Buscador01/2008, Gdansk, Poland01/2010JazzWerkstatt Berlin / Germany (JW 064)with Adrian Mears, Anthony Cox, Krzysztof Dziedzic
Borys Szyc / Adam Pierończyk - Gajcy12/2009 Niepolomice, Poland03/2010Muzeum Powstania Warszawskiego
Adam Pierończyk - Komeda - The Innocent Sorcerer11/2009, Warsaw, Poland11/2010JazzWerkstatt Berlin /Germany (JW 104)with Gary Thomas, Nelson Veras, Anthony Cox, Lukasz Zyta
Adam Pierończyk - The Planet of Eternal Life06/2013 Peitz, Germany11/2013JazzWerkstatt Berlin / Germany (JW 149)solo soprano saxophone album
Adam Pierończyk Quartet - A-Trane Nights01/2008 Berlin, Germany10/2014For Tune / Poland 0040(028)LIVE with Adrian Mears, Anthony Cox, Krzysztof Dziedzic
Adam Pierończyk Migratory Poets, feat. Anthony Joseph11/2014 Katowice, Poland04/2015For 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

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 Adam Pierończyk - soprano and tenor saxophones zoucra, Miroslav Vitous - double bass
Adam Pierończyk - Monte Albán 03/2016 Mexico 10/2016 Jazzsound / Poland JS020 with Robert Kubiszyn, Hernan Hecht
Adam Pierończyk / Miroslav Vitous - Ad-lib Orbits July 2016 Prague, CZ 06/2017 PAO Records / Austria PAO11320 Adam Pierończyk - soprano and tenor saxophones zoucra, Miroslav Vitous - double bass

References

  1. ↑ "MUSIK". www.folkwang-uni.de. Retrieved 2015-05-31.
  2. ↑ "Fryderyk music award :: Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry". zpav.pl. Retrieved 2015-05-31.
  3. ↑ "SopotJazz". www.sopotjazz.pl. Retrieved 2015-05-31.
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