Jan A. P. Kaczmarek
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Jan Andrzej Paweł Kaczmarek ({{#invoke:IPA|main}}; 29 April 1953 – 21 May 2024) was a Polish composer. He wrote scores for more than 70 feature films and documentaries, including Finding Neverland (2004), for which he won an Oscar and a National Board of Review Award. Other notable scores were for Hachi: A Dog's Tale, Unfaithful, Evening, The Visitor, and Washington Square.<ref name=culture>Template:Cite news</ref>
Early life and educationEdit
Jan A.P. Kaczmarek was born in 1953 in Konin, Poland.<ref name=culture/><ref name=dea>Template:Cite news</ref> Studying music from an early age, he graduated with a law degree, specializing in legal theory and philosophy of law, from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (1977).<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
CareerEdit
In the late 1970s, Kaczmarek started working with Jerzy Grotowski and his innovative Theater Laboratory.<ref name=culture/><ref name=wiw>Template:Cite news</ref> 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.<ref name=culture/>
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.<ref name=culture/> His music has been released by Sony Classical, Decca, Varèse Sarabande, Verve, Epic, Milan, and Savitor Records. He gave concerts in the United States and Europe.<ref name=culture/>
In 2005, Kaczmarek received the Academy Award for Best Original Score for Finding Neverland, directed by Marc Forster, on which he had 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.<ref name=culture/><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
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 Poznań, Poland. Both premieres were broadcast live on Polish national television. Other concert works of the composer include Jankiel's Concert, The Open Window and Fanfare A2. On 10 May 2014, the world premiere of Universa – Open Opera, an opera written for the 650th anniversary of the Jagiellonian University, was held in Kraków's Main Square. Jan's last monumental work, Emigra – The Neverending Symphony, was performed in February 2017 in Gdynia, Poland.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>Template:Failed verification
Kaczmarek was a member of the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, European Film Academy and Polish Film Academy.<ref name=culture/>
In 2007, Kaczmarek began working to set up a film institute in his home country of Poland. Inspired by the Sundance Institute, he intended 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 2005.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
On 1 July 2015, he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta.<ref>Template:Cite newsTemplate:Dead link</ref>
Kaczmarek was the founder and director of the Transatlantyk Festival, held yearly in Łódź, Poland.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
In 2023, he received the Lifetime Achievement Polish Film Award for his contribution to Polish cinema.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Illness and deathEdit
In 2023, Jan's daughter stated that Kaczmarek was suffering from multiple system atrophy, for which there is no cure.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He died in Kraków on 21 May 2024, at the age of 71.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
WorksEdit
FilmEdit
| Year | Title |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| 2006 | Who Never Lived |
| 2007 | The Visitor |
| Hania | |
| Evening | |
| 2008 | The Karamazovs |
| Passchendaele | |
| 2009 | Horsemen |
| City Island | |
| Get Low | |
| Hachiko: A Dog's Story | |
| 2010 | Leonie |
| 2012 | The Time Being |
| 2013 | Tajemnica Westerplatte |
| 2013 | Joanna |
| 2014 | Inbetween Worlds |
| 2014 | Dancing Before the Enemy: How a Teenage Boy Fooled the Nazis and Lived |
| 2016 | La Habitación (Tales of Mexico) |
| 2018 | Paul, Apostle of Christ |
| 2019 | Valley of the Gods |
| 2019 | Underage Engineers |
| 2020 | Magnezja |
TelevisionEdit
| Year | Title |
|---|---|
| 1993 | Night Owl |
| Empty Cradle | |
| 2001 | Shot in the Heart |
| 2002 | A Soldier's Girl |
| 2006 | A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story |
| 2007 | War and Peace |
| 2008 | Pinocchio |
| 2009 | The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler |
Awards and nominationsEdit
| Year | Awards | Category | Film | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | National Board of Review Awards | Outstanding Film Music Composition | Finding Neverland | Template:Won |
| 2005 | Academy Awards | Best Original Score | Template:Won | |
| British Academy Film Awards | Best Original Music | Template:Nom | ||
| Golden Globe Awards | Best Original Score | Template:Nom | ||
| 2009 | Czech Lion Awards | Best Music | The Karamazovs | Template:Nom |
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