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Leszek Hefi Wiśniowski - the flutist, saxophone player and the composer

Leszek Hefi Wiśniowski - the flutist, saxophone player and the composer is a graduate from Music Academy of Jazz in Katowice, the flute faculty. He is a laureate of numerous awards and honors in such a prestigious events like: “Jazz Juniors”- International Competition of Young and Debut Jazz Ensembles (1993), Siedlce Jazz Competition (1996), The Ministry of Culture Award (1998), “New Tradition”- Folk Music Competition, Warsaw (2001). Leszek Wiśniowski used it to bring a consistency to his jazz-oriented style that reached easily across genre boundaries. The distinctive sound as well as his technique allows him to play with the best musicians and composers who represent different musical genres: Joanna Słowińska, Krzesimir Dębski, Zygmunt Konieczny, Michał Nestorowicz, Wojtek Mrozek, Pawel Kaczmarczyk,Tomasz Kupiec, Giridhar Udupa, Pramath Kiran, Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, what is more, he plays with such ensembles like HeFi Quartet, Indialucia, 4People, Viva Flamenco. Leszek Wiśniowski also played as a soloist with symphony orchestras. As a flutist and saxophone player he is the performer of soundtrack to Stara Baśń (The Old Tale) (dir. Jerzy Hofman)and Magiczne drzewo (The Magic Tree)(dir. Andrzej Maleszka), Ranczo (dir. Wojciech Adamczyk, music Krzesimir Dębski) Tylko nie teraz (dir. Walerij Pendrakowski, music Zygmunt Konieczny) Nie ten człowiek (dir, Paweł Wendorff, music Zygmunt Konieczny)

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