Krzysztof Lenczowski – born in 1986 in Kraków, graduated from the University of Music. Fryderyk Chopin in Warsaw in the cello class of prof. Tomasz Strahl and Rafał Kwiatkowski. Since October 2019, he has been working at the FCUM at the Faculty of Jazz and Stage Music, where since 2021 he has been teaching a jazz cello class. He also plays the guitar - he graduated from the Jazz Secondary School. H. Majewski in Warsaw in the class of prof. Piotr Lemański.Lenczowski, as a member of his own bands and as a session musician, has recorded over 80 albums, including three original albums - "Internal Melody" (the first Polish jazz album with the cellist's name, which in 2016 was awarded the Fryderyk in the "Jazz Phonographic Debut of the Year" category ), "Personal Things" (released in July 2018, an album which is a studio recording of a solo recital), and "Lost Journey" (released in March 2021, recorded in a trio with Kajetan Galas on Hammond organ and Bartek Staromiejski on drums). In the years 2014-2018, he won the Jazz Top plebiscite by Jazz Forum magazine five times in the various instruments category. In 2021, as a scholarship holder of the Minister of Culture, National Heritage and Sport, he composed a Jazz Cello Concerto for improvising cello and string orchestra. Since 2010, the artist's primary field of artistic activity has been Atom String Quartet - a leading Polish jazz band and one of the most interesting string quartets in the world.
Since winning the Grand Prix of the 13th Bielska Zadymka Jazzowa, these four nicest musicians with the firepower adequate to the band's name (as Jan "Ptaszyn" Wróblewski described the band members) have been constantly present at the largest European music festivals, including: Berliner Jazztage, JazzBaltica, Leipziger Jazztage, Festival Veranos de la Villa Madrid, Jazz Jamboree, Ethno Jazz Festival and Solidarity of Arts. The band also performed, among others, at the Berlin Philharmonic (together with Leszek Możdżer, Lars Danielsson, Zohar Fresco), the National Philharmonic in Warsaw, the Szczecin Philharmonic (as an artist-in-residence in the 2017/2018 season), and many times at the National Forum of Music and the NOSPR headquarters. In 2011, the album "Fade In" was released, which won the Fryderyk award of the Polish phonographic industry in the "Jazz Phonographic Debut of the Year" category. The next album - "Places" - released in 2012 by the Kayax label, received a Fryderyk in the category: "Album of the Year - Jazz Music". In addition, Atom String Quartet received the Grand Prix of the "Melomani" Association in the New Hope category, and Musician of the Year, Golden Goose at the 15th Polish Radio Folk Festival "Nowa Tradycja", Grand Prix at the 22nd International Jazz Competition EUROPAfest 2015 in Bucharest, and Mateusz 2015 - award Third Program of Polish Radio.
Lenczowski collaborated with artists such as: Branford Marsalis, Bobby McFerrin, Jason Moran, Gil Goldstein, Paolo Fresu, Wolfgang Haffner, Christian von Kaphengst, Rupert Stamm, Mathias Haus, Vladislav `Adzik` Sendecki, Leszek Możdżer, Lars Danielsson, Zohar Fresco , Jerzy Maksymiuk, André Ochodlo, Urszula Dudziak, Anna Maria Jopek, Natalia Kukulska, Dorota Miśkiewicz, Marek Moś, Kayah, Małgorzarta Hutek, Aga Zaryan, Janusz Olejniczak, Krzesimir Dębski, Stanisław Sojka, Adam Sztaba, Grzech Piotrowski, Cezariusz Gadzina, Rafał Grząka, Marek Bracha, Krzysztof Herdzin, Józef Skrzek, Andrzej Jagodziński, Dominik Wania, Marcin Wasilewski, Piotr Orzechowski, as well as with the following bands: Lutosławski Piano Duo, AUKSO Chamber Orchestra of the City of Tychy, Sinfonia Varsovia, Leopoldinum Chamber Orchestra, Elbląg Chamber Orchestra, Sinfonietta Cracovia, the Szczecin Philharmonic Orchestra, the Gorzów Philharmonic Orchestra, Grzech Piotrowski's World Orchestra, Sinfonia Viva and Zakopower and Motion Trio.
