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\nPiotr Wyle\u017co\u0142<\/strong> \u2013 polish pianist and composer.<\/p>\n
Born December 6th<\/sup>, 1976. As a child, he was already winning awards at national piano competitions in Poland and playing concerts with a classical repertoire. At 10 and 11 years old, he performed Mozart and Beethoven piano concertos with the Philharmonic Orchestra of Rybnik, Poland.<\/p>\n In 1989, he completed the Karol and Antoni Szafrank\u00f3w Public Primary School of Music in Rybnik, in the piano class of Romana Fritzowa, and graduated from the Karol Szymanowski Public Secondary School of Music in Katowice in 1995, in the piano class of Irena Kryszczukajtis. In 2000, he received his diploma from the Katowice Academy of Music, where he studied piano under Wojciech Niedziela in the Department of Jazz and Popular Music.<\/p>\n He began his jazz performing career while still studying in Katowice, in groups led by Janusz Muniak, Jarek \u015amietana and Marek Ba\u0142ata, among others. As a student, he was also a laureate of numerous jazz competitions and festivals: Jazz Juniors in Krakow (1st<\/sup> prize), the Jazz Standards Festival in Siedlce (1st<\/sup> prize), the Pomeranian Jazz Autumn\u2019s \u201cKey to a Career\u201d and Jazz on the Oder in Wroc\u0142aw (individual award for best instrumentalist),\u00a0 and the International Jazz Improvisation Competition in Katowice.<\/p>\n Piotr Wyle\u017co\u0142 has led his own trio since beginning his activity as an artist. In 2001 his first CD as a leader was released, titled \u201cYearning\u201d and recorded with Adam Kowalewski on bass, and \u0141ukasz \u017byta on drums. Even then, the music press was generous in its praise: \u201cThis is one of the most interesting debut albums to come out in some time. A trio of young Polish musicians has created a musical atmosphere on this CD which is on a par with some of the finest work in this genre.\u201d (Jazz Forum, November 2001<\/em>). In 2006 his second CD, \u201cPiano Trio\u201d (with Micha\u0142 Bara\u0144ski on bass and \u0141ukasz \u017byta on drums) was released, and in 2009 the renowned label Fresh Sound Records released his third and latest project, \u201cChildren\u2019s Episodes\u201d. This CD was issued on that label\u2019s New Talent series, which includes names like Brad Mehldau, Kurt Rosenwinkel and Chris Cheek, among others. It\u2019s worth mentioning that Piotr Wyle\u017co\u0142 is the first Polish musician ever to have been included by Fresh Sound in this distinguished circle of musicians. \u201cChildren\u2019s Episodes\u201d was also nominated for a Fryderyk Award (Poland\u2019s equivalent of a Grammy Award), in the Jazz Album of The Year category. Besides the trio studio albums, his discography also includes two live recordings as a leader. The first, \u201cQuintet Live\u201d, was released in 2010 and included guest musicians Adam Piero\u0144czyk on sax, and David Doruzka on guitar, while the second \u2013 titled \u201cDuoDram\u201d \u2013 is a piano duo concert with S\u0142awek Jasku\u0142ke, recorded at the \u201cJazz in Gdynia\u201d festival.<\/p>\n In the course of his presence on the professional jazz stage thus far, he has had occasion to work with a number of its leading figures, including: Gary Bartz, Billy Hart, Nigel Kennedy, Steve Logan, Monty Waters, Bennie Maupin, Janis Siegel, Ed Schuller, Antymos Apostolis, Piotr Baron, Andrzej Cudzich, Urszula Dudziak, Kazimierz Jonkisz, Grzegorz Nag\u00f3rski, Adam Piero\u0144czyk, Tomasz Szukalski, Tomasz Sta\u0144ko, Mika Urbaniak, Jan Ptaszyn Wr\u00f3blewski, and others. He has worked regularly with Nigel Kennedy since 2005, taking part in the violinist\u2019s own projects as well as performing classical concerts with him, playing harpsichord in a repertoire of Bach and Vivaldi.<\/p>\n Piotr Wyle\u017co\u0142 has performed at numerous concerts and festivals throughout Poland, as well as in several dozen various countries of the world. Besides his own CDs recorded as a leader and co-leader, he has participated in a significant number of recordings by other artists, and the number is constantly growing. He has also been teaching piano at the Krakow Academy of Music\u2019s Jazz and Modern Music Department since 2007.<\/p>\n