WOJCIECH STARONIEWICZ - saxophonist, composer.
1985 - First collective prize and first individual prize for the best composed piece at the Jazz Juniors festival. In 1986, together with the band Set-Off, he won the first prize "Golden Key To Career" at the Pomeranian Jazz Autumn. He also received the second prize at the International Contest for Youth Orchestras in Hoeilaart, Belgium.
Wojtek Staroniewicz is a semi-finalist of the International Jazz Improvisation Competition in Washington, D.C. in 1991. Staroniewicz has played in Mit Leadera, Set-Off, Loud Jazz Band, he has collaborated with the Metro musical. He has been cooperating with Włodzimierz Nahorny in a project entitled "Polish Fantasy".
Over the past few years Staroniewicz has participated in the following jazz festivals:
Gdynia Summer Jazz Days '95
Warsaw Summer Jazz Days '95
In 1996 together with Leszek Kułakowski at Festiwal Pianistów Jazzowych w Kaliszu
Together with Włodzimierz Nahorny at: Mity in 1997 and Polish Fantasy in 1999
Poznań Jazz Fair '96
Sopot Molo Jazz Festival '97, '98, '99
Świdnik Jazz Festival '97
Głogow Jazz Meetings'97 - Vintage Band
Gdynia Summer Jazz Days '99
Jazz Jamboree '99
International Festival of Percussion Music 2000 - Orange Trane
International Festival of Percussion Art in Warsaw - Perkusja 2000 - Wojtek Staroniewicz Quartet
Festival Jazz in the forest 2000 Sulęczyno
Świdnik Jazz Festival 2000
Europa 2000 Wander Chopin's Festival - Polish Fantasy (Ukraine, Hungary, Slovenia, Scotland, Sweden).
"Jazz Club Fasching" Sztokholm November 2000 - Polish Fantasy
VII Shanghai International Music Festival - Polish Fantasy
Dusseldorfer Jazz Rally 2002 - Polish Fantasy
"Chopiniana" Fryderyk Chopin's Days in Warsaw 2002 - Polish Fantasy
Sopot Molo Jazz 2002 - Hand-made
"Corso Polonia" Rome 2003 - Polish Fantasy
"Telegraph" Leipzig 2003 - Hand Made
"Jazzfruhling" Neubrandenburg 2004 - Follow The Soul
"Villa Celimontana Jazz Polacco" Rome 2004 - Polish Fantasy
"SKOK Jazz Sopot" 2004 - Wojciech Staroniewicz/Helge Lien
"The Polish Jazz Hoeilaart Laureats" - Hoeilaart (Belgium) 2004
"The Music Village" Brussels 2004 - The Polish Jazz Hoeilaart Laureats
"Buster" Antwerpen 2004 - The Polish Jazz Hoeilaart Laureats
"Festival de Jazz La Brasov" Romania 2004 - Andrei Petrica Trio feat. Wojciech Staroniewicz
"Espace Des Blancs Manteaux" Paris 2004 - Chopin dans tous ses etats, Polish Fantasy
"Lotos Jazz Festival - Bielska Zadymka Jazzowa 2005" - Hand Made
"The Jazz Festival - Givatayim Theatre" Tel-Aviv, Israel 2005 - Wojciech Staroniewicz Quartet
"SKOK Jazz Sopot" 2005 - Wojciech Staroniewicz/Helge Lien
"Blue Note" Poznan 2005 - Wojciech Staroniewicz/Helge Lien
"Krokus Jazz Festival" Jelenia Góra 2005 - Staroniewicz - Melvin - Lemańczyk
"III United Europe Jazz Festival" Zakopane 2006 - Wojciech Staroniewicz Quintet
"Parkjazz Festival 2006" Kortrijk, Belgium 2006 - Wojciech Staroniewicz Quintet
"Jazz Bridge Festival" Bremen, Germany 2006 - Wojciech Staroniewicz Quintet
Selected discography:
Set-Off - PSJ 206/1987
On The Other Side - JAM 1989
Loud Jazz Band - Live "Akwarium" Jazz Club
Loud Jazz Band - "4 Ever 2 U" Merkury 1995 (nominated for the "Fryderyk" award)
Leni Stern / Stéphane Grappelli / Wojciech Staroniewicz - Jazz a Go Go, 010
The Beginner - Koch 1996
Quiet City - Polonia Records 1995
Karambola - Allegro/B52 1999 (nominated for the "Fryderyk" award)
Polish Fantasy Nahorny Chopin - Polish Radio S.A., Warsaw 2000
Polish Fantasy Nahorny Karłowicz - Polish Radio S.A., Warsaw 2002 (nominated for the "Fryderyk" award)
Hand-made - Allegro 2002
Follow The Soul - Allegro 2003
Loud Jazz Band - "Don't Stop The Train" (norwegian edition)
The Best Of Polish Jazz 2005 - Chazz Records USA, Compilation Polish Jazz Network
Loud Jazz Band - "The Way to Salina" (norwegian edition) Allegro 2005
Dominik Bukowski & Projektor - "Dominik Bukowski & Projektor" Allegro 2005
Staroniewicz / Melvin / Lemańczyk - "Conversession - live" Allegro 2006
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