He was twice a winner of Jazz Juniors in Cracow, the most significant jazz competition in Poland (in 1995 and 1996, awarded for individuality, composition and best instrumentalist. In 1996 at Jazz nad Odrą festival he won a prize for composition and at Pomorska Jesień Jazzowa festival he received “Golden Key to the Career”.
Lemańczyk is a member of many leading jazz bands in Poland and the only European member of the American group Beattlejazz. As a sideman, he cooperates with international stars like Jerry Bergonzi, Seamus Blake, Dave Kikowski, Gary Novak, Clarence Penn, Tim Haggans or Avishai Cohen.
Apart from being a session musician, he is a leader of his own groups and as such, he has recorded six albums: Follow The Soul, Freep, Village Time, Naha People, Guru and Amhran. All of them got excellent reviews in professional magazines.
He also took part in recording 40 albums with top Polish jazz artists. He cooperated with Zbigniew Namysłowski, Adam Pierończyk, Maciej Sikała, Jan Ptaszyn Wróblewski, Janusz Muniak, Jacek Kochan, Maciej Fortuna, Dominik Bukowski, Kazimierz Jonkisz, Piotr Wojtasik, Wojciech Staroniewicz, Krystyna Stańko, Sławomir Jaskułke and many others.
Tha album he recorded with Jacek Kochan and Jerry Bergonzi was nominated for Fryderyk music award in 2011 as Jazz Album of the Year.
Contact:
Email: p.a.lemanczyk@wp.pl
Official Web site:
www.piotrlemanczyk.com
MANAGEMENT:
Jakub Szałek
szalek.management@gmail.com
+48 661135969
Disocography:
Dominik Bukowski - Simple Words (Soliton 2014)
ORANGE TRANE – feat. Dominik Bukowski & Tomasz Łosowski – FUGU (Soilton 2014)
PIOTR LEMAŃCZYK/ SEAMUS BLAKE /JACEK KOCHAN - AMHRAN (Soliton2013)
Maciej Fortuna Trio / Piotr Lemańczyk / Krzysztof Gradziuk – At Home (Fortuna Music 2013)
Maciej Fortuna Trio/Piotr Lemańczyk/Frank Parker - SOLAR RING (Fortuna Music 2012)
PIOTR LEMANCZYK feat Dave Kikowski – Guru (Soliton 2012)
JERRY BERGONZI / JACEK KOCHAN / PIOTR LEMANCZYK – Three Point Shut (Intuition 2010)
PIOTR LEMAŃCZYK Quartet feat. TIM HAGANS – NAHA PEOPLE (SOliton 2009)
Piotr Lemańczyk - VILLAGE TIME (BCD REcords 2007)
Goran Larsen/Dominik Bukowski/Piotr Lemańczyk - ALONE TOGETHER (Solion 2004)
Piotr Lemańczyk – FREEP BCD Records 2005
Piotr Lemańczyk - FOLLOW THE SOUL (Allegro Records 2003)