Piotr Wyleżoł

Piotr Wyleżoł (born December 6, 1976 in Kraków ) is a Polish musician (piano, composition), who is best known in the field of modern jazz .

Live and act

Wyleżoł began his career as a musical child prodigy and was already performing at the age of ten in classical piano concerts with the Rybnik Philharmonic Orchestra . After graduating from high school in 1995, he studied jazz with Wojciech Niedziela at the Katowice Music Academy until 2000 . While still a student he played in the bands of Janusz Muniak , Jarek Śmietana and Marek Bałata .

Since his beginnings as a jazz musician, he has led his own trio, with which he released his debut album in 2001 and received very good reviews in the Jazz Forum . A second album followed in 2006 and another album in 2009, which was nominated for the Polish Fryderyk . A quintet album was created with guest musicians Adam Pierończyk and David Doruzka. A duet that he played with fellow piano colleague Sławek Jaskułke at the Jazz Festival in Gdynia was also released under the title DuoDram .

Wyleżoł also performed with musicians such as Gary Bartz , Billy Hart , Monty Waters , Bennie Maupin , Janis Siegel , Ed Schuller , Antymos Apostolis , Andrzej Cudzich, Urszula Dudziak , Kazimierz Jonkisz , Tomasz Szukalski , Tomasz Stańko and Jan Ptaszyn Wróblewski . He has been working with Nigel Kennedy since 2005, both in his jazz projects and to interpret classical works. He also belonged to the trio of the singer Grzegorz Karnas .

Since 2007 he has been teaching in the jazz course at the Kraków Music Academy.

Prizes and awards

Wyleżoł won the following competitions held as part of festivals: Jazz Juniors in Krakow (1st prize), Jazz Standards Festival in Siedlce (1st prize), the Key to a Career of the Pomeranian Jazz Autumn, the prize for the best instrumentalist in jazz nad Odra , as well as the International Jazz Improvisation Competition in Katowice.

Discographic notes

Jarek Śmietana Band Out of the Question (2001)
Piotr Wyleżoł, Adam Kowalewski, Łukasz Żyta Yearning ( Not Two Records 2001)
Piotr Wyleżoł Piano Trio (ProFonica, 2006, with Michał Barański, Łukasz Żyta)
Piotr Wyleżoł Children's Episodes ( Fresh Sound New Talents 2009)
Piotr Wyleżoł Quintet Live (2010)
Nigel Kennedy Shhh! (EMI 2010)
Szymon Klima, Piotr Wyleżoł, Adam Kowalewski Lutosławski Returned (Hevhetia, 2015)
Human Things (Muza 2018, with Robert Majewski , Grzegorz Nagórski , Dayna Stephens , Michał Barański, Michał Miśkiewicz and Aga Zaryan )

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personal data
SURNAME	Wyleżoł, Piotr
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Polish musician (piano, composition)
DATE OF BIRTH	6th December 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH	Krakow