Jan A. P. Kaczmarek

Jan A. P. Kaczmarek

born on 29/4/1953 in Konin, Województwo wielkopolskie, Poland

Jan A. P. Kaczmarek

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Jan A.P. Kaczmarek

Jan A.P. Kaczmarek
Born Jan Andrzej Pawe Kaczmarek
April 29 1953
Konin, Poland
Occupation Composer
Website
jan-ap-kaczmarek.com

Jan Andrzej Pawe Kaczmarek (born 29 April 1953) is a Polish composer who has lived and worked in the United States since 1989. He has written the scores for more than 50 feature films and documentaries, including Finding Neverland (2005), for which score he won an Academy Award and National Board of Review award. Other notable scores were for Unfaithful, Evening, The Visitor (2008), and Washington Square.

Early life and education

Jan A.P. Kaczmarek was born in 1953 in Konin, Poland. Studying music from an early age, he graduated in law studies from Adam Mickiewicz University in Pozna.

Career

In the late 1970s, Kaczmarek started working with Jerzy Grotowski and his innovative Theater Laboratory. He created the Orchestra of the Eighth Day in 1977. He recorded his first album, Music for the End (1982), for the United States (US) company Flying Fish Records.

In 1989, Kaczmarek moved to Los Angeles, California in the US. In 1992 he won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music in a Play for his incidental music for 'Tis Pity She's a Whore. His music has been released by Sony Classical, Decca, Varèse Sarabande, Verve, Epic, Milan, and Savitor Records. He gives concerts in the United States and Europe.

In 2005, Kaczmarek received the Academy Award for Best Original Score for Finding Neverland, directed by Marc Forster, on which he worked with music editor Christopher Kennedy, among others. Kaczmarek also won the National Board of Review award for Best Score of the Year and was nominated for a Golden Globe and the BAFTA's Anthony Asquith Award for Achievement in Film Music.

In addition to his work in films, Kaczmarek was commissioned to write two symphonic and choral pieces for two important national occasions in Poland: Cantata for Freedom (2005) to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Solidarity movement, and Oratorio 1956 (2006) to commemorate the 50th anniversary of a bloody uprising against totalitarian government in Pozna, Poland. Both premieres were broadcast live on Polish national television.

Kaczmarek is a member of the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, European Film Academy and Polish Film Academy.

In 2007, Kaczmarek began working to set up a film institute in his home country of Poland. Inspired by the Sundance Institute, he intends for the new institute to serve as a European center for the development of new work in film, theater, music and new media. His Instytut Rozbitek (Rozbitek Institute) opened in 2010.

Kaczmarek is the founder and director of the Transatlantyk - Pozna International Film and Music Festival, in Pozna, Poland. The first edition of the festival was organized in 513 August 2011 and the second edition in 1522 August 2012.

Works

Film

Year Title Note
1993 White Marriage
Doppelgänger
1994 Gospel According to Harry
Dead Girl
1995 Total Eclipse
1996 Bliss
1997 Washington Square
1999 Aimée & Jaguar
The Third Miracle
2000 Lost Souls
2001 Quo Vadis
Edges of the Lord
2002 Unfaithful
2004 Finding Neverland Academy Award winner
2006 Who Never Lived
A Girl Like Me
2007 The Visitor
Hania
War and Peace European television film
Evening
2008 The Karamazovs
Passchendaele
2009 Get Low
Hachiko: A Dog's Story
2010 Leonie
2012 The Time Being
2013 Tajemnica Westerplatte

Television

Year Title
1993 Night Owl
Empty Cradle
2001 Shot in the Heart
2002 A Soldier's Girl
2008 Pinocchio
2009 The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler

Awards

Year Film Awards Category Result
2004 Finding Neverland National Board of Review Awards 2004 Outstanding Film Music Composition Won
2005 77th Academy Awards Best Original Score Won
62nd Golden Globe Awards Best Original Score Nominated
58th British Academy Film Awards Best Film Music Nominated
2009 The Karamazovs Czech Lion Best Music Nominated

External links

  • Jan A.P. Kaczmarek - Official Site
  • Jan A.P. Kaczmarek - Official Facebook Page
  • Jan A.P. Kaczmarek at the Internet Movie Database
  • Instytut Rozbitek - official website
  • Transatlantyk Pozna International Film and Music Festival - official website
  • Photographs by Judyta Papp
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