Piotr Damasiewicz

Piotr Damasiewicz is a Polish trumpeter, composer and multi-instrumentalist from Wrocław. He also plays double bass, piano and harmonium, and his music draws on jazz, European improvisation, twentieth-century classical music and folk sources. He is known as the leader of the large ensemble Power of the Horns and of the trio Into the Roots, and as a curator of international music platforms. Damasiewicz studied in Wrocław, Bydgoszcz and Katowice and earned a doctorate at the Feliks Nowowiejski Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz. In 2013 he won the Fryderyk award for jazz debut of the year.