About
Horntet is a jazz quintet and democratic collective composed of five outstanding and promising young Polish jazz musicians. They have been nominated for the 2024 Fryderyk Award, won nearly every jazz competition in Poland (including Jazz nad Odrą 2022 and Bielska Zadymka Jazzowa 2022), and took 2nd place in the prestigious European Young Artists' Jazz Award in Burghausen 2024. They have been recognized multiple times by critics and music journalists in Poland and abroad. Since the group was founded in 2019 by pianist Bartłomiej Leśniak, they have consistently worked on developing a distinctive, shared style, grounded in original compositions that blend mainstream jazz, free jazz, and contemporary classical music, while maintaining a Slavic element that continues the tradition of Polish Jazz. In 2023, confident in their chosen direction, the group released their debut album, titled "Horntet".
photo by Maria Jarzyna
Personel
Szymon Ziółkowski - alto & soprano sax
Robert Wypasek - tenor & soprano sax
Bartłomiej Leśniak - piano
Mikołaj Sikora - double bass
Piotr Przewoźniak - drums
photo by Maria Jarzyna
Achievements
I place at 12th Tarnow International Jazz Contest, open band category, Tarnow 2019.
I place at XXIII Competition of Jazz and Blues Bands, Gdynia 2021.
Grand Prix at Blue Note Poznan Competition, Poznan 2022.
Grand Prix at 24th Bielska Zadymka Jazzowa, Katowice 2022.
Grand Prix at 58th Jazz nad Odrą, Wroclaw 2022.
Grand Prix at Young Crocus Jazz Contest, Jelenia Gora 2022.
Finalist of 47th Key to Career, Gorzow Wielkopolski 2022.
Laureate of Jazz Phonographic Debut 2023, org. Polish National Institute of Music and Dance.
1st place in the New Hope category - Jazz Top 2023 survey (org. Jazz Forum).
4th place in the Album of The Year category - Jazz Top 2023 survey (org. Jazz Forum).
Jazz Crumb of Creative Perspectivism 2023 (org. Radio Bemowo).
2nd prize at the 14th European Jazz Award, Burghausen 2024.
Nominee for the Fryderyk Award 2024, Fonographic Debut of the Year - Jazz category.
Horntet / 2023
Listen online: https://e-muzyka.ffm.to/horntet
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Recorded 21–22 March 2023 at Tokarnia 2.0 in Nieporęt (Poland).
Recording, mix & master: Jan Smoczyński
Design: For Tune® II Artwork by Michalina Jurczyk