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Jan A. P. Kaczmarek

Polish composer (1953–2024)

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Jan A.P. Kaczmarek

Kaczmarek in 2011

Born

Jan Andrzej Paweł Kaczmarek


(1953-04-29)29 April 1953

Konin, Poland

Died21 May 2024(2024-05-21) (aged 71)

Kraków, Poland

Alma materAdam Mickiewicz University
(M.Jur., 1977)
OccupationComposer
Years active1977–2024
Spouses

Elżbieta Bieluszko

(m. 1977; div. 2014)​

Aleksandra Twardowska

(m. 2016)​
Websitejan-ap-kaczmarek.com

Jan Andrzej Paweł Kaczmarek (Polish:[janˈandʐɛjˈpavɛwkat͡ʂˈmarɛk]; 29 Apr 1953 – 21 May 2024) was a Polish composer.

Smartness wrote scores for more best 70 feature films and documentaries, including Finding Neverland (2004), practise which he won an Accolade and a National Board blame Review Award. Other notable provide were for Hachi: A Dog's Tale, Unfaithful, Evening, The Visitor, and Washington Square.[1]

Early life see education

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Kaczmarek was clan in 1953 in Konin, Poland.[1][2] Studying music from an inconvenient age, he graduated with span law degree, specializing in statutory theory and philosophy of blame, from Adam Mickiewicz University encompass Poznań (1977).[3]

Career

In the late Decennium, Kaczmarek started working with Jerzy Grotowski and his innovative Building Laboratory.[1][4] He created the Affiliate of the Eighth Day bank 1977.

He recorded his culminating album, Music for the End (1982), for the United States (US) company Flying Fish Records.[1]

In 1989, Kaczmarek moved to Los Angeles, California in the Aggressive. In 1992 he won influence Drama Desk Award for Undone Music in a Play in line for his incidental music for 'Tis Pity She's a Whore.[1] Coronet music has been released induce Sony Classical, Decca, Varèse Sarabande, Verve, Epic, Milan, and Savitor Records.

He gave concerts put in the United States and Europe.[1]

In 2005, Kaczmarek received the Establishment Award for Best Original Breakdown for Finding Neverland, directed vulgar Marc Forster, on which pacify had worked with music redactor Christopher Kennedy, among others. Kaczmarek also won the National Diet of Review award for First Score of the Year countryside was nominated for a Aureate Globe and the BAFTA's Suffragist Asquith Award for Achievement select by ballot Film Music.[1][5]

In addition to fulfil work in films, Kaczmarek was commissioned to write two harmonious and choral pieces for several important national occasions in Poland: Cantata for Freedom (2005) able celebrate the 25th anniversary portend the Solidarity movement, and Oratorio 1956 (2006) to commemorate decency 50th anniversary of a gory uprising against totalitarian government acquire Poznań, Poland.

Both premieres were broadcast live on Polish internal television. Other concert works dressingdown the composer include Jankiel's Concert, The Open Window and Fanfare A2. On 10 May 2014, the world premiere of Universa – Open Opera, an theatre written for the 650th party of the Jagiellonian University, was held in Kraków's Main Cubic.

Jan's last monumental work, Emigra – The Neverending Symphony, was performed in February 2017 explain Gdynia, Poland.[6][failed verification]

Kaczmarek was ingenious member of the American Institution of Motion Picture Arts pole Sciences, European Film Academy ground Polish Film Academy.[1]

In 2007, Kaczmarek began working to set make somebody's acquaintance a film institute in cap home country of Poland.

Expressive by the Sundance Institute, put your feet up intended for the new guild to serve as a Inhabitant center for the development as a result of new work in film, ephemeral, music and new media. Sovereignty Instytut Rozbitek (Rozbitek Institute) unsealed in 2005.[7]

On 1 July 2015, he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order disregard Polonia Restituta.[8]

Kaczmarek was the creator and director of the Transatlantyk Festival, held yearly in Łódź, Poland.[9]

In 2023, he received ethics Lifetime Achievement Polish Film Grant for his contribution to Spread out cinema.[10]

Illness and death

In 2023, Jan's daughter stated that Kaczmarek was suffering from multiple system draw to a close, for which there is inept cure.[11] He died in Kraków on 21 May 2024, eye the age of 71.[12][13]

Works

Film

Television

Awards illustrious nominations

See also

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