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Krzysztof A. Janczak

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Krzysztof A. Janczak
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Krzysztof A. Janczak is one of the most remarkable composers of young generation in Poland. The laureate of over a dozen international concert and film music competitions among others; Eyes & Ears of Europe in Munich, Red Dot in Berlin, New York Festivals in NY, European Talent and Universal Music Award in Cologne, and Transatlantyk Young Composer Award in Poznan. In 2012, he received a nomination to a special RMF Classic Award for young film music composer of a year. In 2017 supported by the letters from Max Richter and Monika Willi (editor of Michael Haneke) he has become a member of European Film Academy.

Since his debut in 2003, when The Winter won The Golden Tadpole at Camerimage festival, he created the music for over 70 movies, dozens of orchestral, chamber and piano pieces, that have been performed all over the world, and the music for TV channels such as; Disney Channel, NBC Universal, 13th Street, Kabel Deutschland and many others.

After graduating in Musicology at Warsaw University, as a bursar of French Government and Nadia and Lili Boulanger Foundation, headed by Daniel Barenboim and Martha Argerich, he moved to Paris, where after five years of studies he received the diplomas of composition and orchestration in the most prestigious French school École Normale de Musique de Paris and Maurice Ravel Conservatory, in classes of remarkable Michel Merlet, a student of Olivier Messiaen and Igor Stravinsky. In 2007, after composing the Warsaw Uprising Symphony, an homage of young generation to those who fought for Warsaw in Second World War, he was honored The Silver Cross of Merit by President of Poland.

He perfected his skills and craft attending numerous master classes leaded by such composers as: Howard Shore, Alberto Iglesias, Max Richter, Michael Nyman, Jan A.P. Kaczmarek, Patrick Doyle, Don Davis, Trevor Morris, Rolfe Kent, Christopher Young, Marc Isham and Marco Beltrami. In 2013, he was selected from over 4400 applicants from 137 countries to attend the Berlinale Talents program.

He collaborates with the directors and musicians all over the world, composing the music for many feature, documentary and animation films. He is regularly a guest at Abbey Road Studios, leading and supervising the recordings with the best soloists and orchestras, among others London Symphony Orchestra.
BornMay 1, 1983
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Krzysztof A. Janczak and Rhys Stone attend the 'It must be heaven' screening on the opening night of the annual Ajyal Youth Film Festival presented by the Doha Film Institute on November 18, 2019 in Doha, Qatar.
Krzysztof A. Janczak on the opening night of the annual Ajyal Youth Film Festival presented by the Doha Film Institute on November 18, 2019 in Doha, Qatar.
Krzysztof A. Janczak and Rhys Stone attend the 'It must be heaven' screening on the opening night of the annual Ajyal Youth Film Festival presented by the Doha Film Institute on November 18, 2019 in Doha, Qatar.
Press Conference after the premiere of 'Sonata' at Polish Film Festival
Krzysztof A. Janczak on the opening night of the annual Ajyal Youth Film Festival presented by the Doha Film Institute on November 18, 2019 in Doha, Qatar.
Krzysztof A. Janczak

Known for:

Even Mice Belong in Heaven (2021)
Even Mice Belong in Heaven
6.6
  • Composer
  • 2021
Jacob, Mimmi and the Talking Dogs (2019)
Jacob, Mimmi and the Talking Dogs
6.8
  • Composer
  • 2019
Malgorzata Foremniak, Jerzy Stuhr, Lukasz Simlat, and Michal Sikorski in Sonata (2021)
Sonata
7.1
  • Composer(original music by)
  • 2021
Vladimir Onokhov in The Whaler Boy (2020)
The Whaler Boy
6.4
  • Composer
  • 2020

Credits

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Composer

  • Lombard (2022)
    Lombard
    • Composer
    • 2022
  • Agata's Happiness
    • Composer
    • 2022
  • Koniec swiata czyli Kogel Mogel 4 (2022)
    Koniec swiata czyli Kogel Mogel 4
    • Composer
    • 2022
  • Nedzarz i madame (2021)
    Nedzarz i madame
    • Composer (original music by)
    • 2021
  • Malgorzata Foremniak, Jerzy Stuhr, Lukasz Simlat, and Michal Sikorski in Sonata (2021)
    Sonata
    • Composer (original music by)
    • 2021
  • Dagmara Brodziak in The Day I Found a Girl in a Trash (2021)
    The Day I Found a Girl in a Trash
    • Composer (original music by)
    • 2021
  • Wlodzimierz Press, Arkadiusz Jakubik, Magdalena Poplawska, and Kamil Szeptycki in Czarna owca (2021)
    Czarna owca
    • Composer
    • 2021
  • Even Mice Belong in Heaven (2021)
    Even Mice Belong in Heaven
    • Composer
    • 2021
  • Maharaja's Children. Brave Bunch in India (2021)
    Maharaja's Children. Brave Bunch in India
    • Composer
    • 2021
  • Tom Prior and Oleg Zagorodnii in Firebird (2021)
    Firebird
    • Composer
    • 2021
  • Television Theater (1953)
    Television Theater
    • Composer (original music by)
    • TV Series
    • 2021
  • Vladimir Onokhov in The Whaler Boy (2020)
    The Whaler Boy
    • Composer
    • 2020
  • The Fight to Vote
    • Composer
    • 2020
  • Steven Gätjen in Sorry für alles (2019)
    Sorry für alles
    • Composer
    • TV Series
    • 2019
  • Jacob, Mimmi and the Talking Dogs (2019)
    Jacob, Mimmi and the Talking Dogs
    • Composer
    • 2019

Music Department

  • Lombard (2022)
    Lombard
    • arranger
    • musician: percussion instruments
    • orchestrator ...
    • 2022
  • Koniec swiata czyli Kogel Mogel 4 (2022)
    Koniec swiata czyli Kogel Mogel 4
    • music producer
    • musician: piano
    • orchestrator ...
    • 2022
  • Malgorzata Foremniak, Jerzy Stuhr, Lukasz Simlat, and Michal Sikorski in Sonata (2021)
    Sonata
    • arranger
    • musician: piano
    • orchestrator ...
    • 2021
  • Dagmara Brodziak in The Day I Found a Girl in a Trash (2021)
    The Day I Found a Girl in a Trash
    • arranger
    • musician: piano
    • orchestrator ...
    • 2021
  • Wlodzimierz Press, Arkadiusz Jakubik, Magdalena Poplawska, and Kamil Szeptycki in Czarna owca (2021)
    Czarna owca
    • orchestrator
    • score producer
    • synth programmer
    • 2021
  • Even Mice Belong in Heaven (2021)
    Even Mice Belong in Heaven
    • musician: cimbalom
    • orchestrator
    • synth programmer
    • 2021
  • Maharaja's Children. Brave Bunch in India (2021)
    Maharaja's Children. Brave Bunch in India
    • musician: piano
    • orchestrator
    • score mixer ...
    • 2021
  • Tom Prior and Oleg Zagorodnii in Firebird (2021)
    Firebird
    • orchestrator
    • synth programmer
    • trailer music
    • 2021
  • Vladimir Onokhov in The Whaler Boy (2020)
    The Whaler Boy
    • score mixer
    • synth programmer
    • 2020
  • The Fight to Vote
    • musician: piano
    • score mixer
    • score producer ...
    • 2020
  • Weronika Rosati, Katarzyna Zielinska, and Julia Wieniawa-Narkiewicz in Zawsze warto (2019)
    Zawsze warto
    • music: credits (as Krzysztof Aleksander Janczak)
    • TV Series
    • 2019
  • Jacob, Mimmi and the Talking Dogs (2019)
    Jacob, Mimmi and the Talking Dogs
    • music producer
    • musician: cimbalom
    • musician: piano ...
    • 2019
  • Karel Roden, Malgorzata Buczkowska, and Sergey Strelnikov in The Pleasure Principle (2019)
    The Pleasure Principle
    • composer assistant
    • orchestrator (as Krzysztof Aleksander Janczak)
    • TV Series
    • 2019
  • Ossolineum (2018)
    Ossolineum
    • music producer
    • musician: piano
    • 2018
  • The Dragon Spring (2018)
    The Dragon Spring
    • music producer
    • score mixer
    • score recordist ...
    • 2018

Soundtrack

  • Planeta Singli. Osiem historii (2021)
    Planeta Singli. Osiem historii
    • performer: "Dla Ciebie zwariowalem"
    • TV Mini Series
    • 2021
  • Malgorzata Foremniak, Jerzy Stuhr, Lukasz Simlat, and Michal Sikorski in Sonata (2021)
    Sonata
    • arranger: "Juras"
    • writer: "Juras", "Mama", "Etiuda 'Laski'"
    • 2021
  • Dagmara Brodziak in The Day I Found a Girl in a Trash (2021)
    The Day I Found a Girl in a Trash
    • arranger: "New Polish Anthem"
    • lyrics: "Only Enough at Midnight"
    • writer: "Only Enough at Midnight", "Funeral March", "New Polish Anthem", "Blue Lagoon", "Blue Chicken", "Do You Feel It Blue", "Questions in Blue", "Blue Clouds"
    • 2021
  • Wlodzimierz Press, Arkadiusz Jakubik, Magdalena Poplawska, and Kamil Szeptycki in Czarna owca (2021)
    Czarna owca
    • arranger: "Ave Maria, Ellen's Gesang. III., Op. 52, No. 6 (1825)"
    • 2021
  • Tom Prior and Oleg Zagorodnii in Firebird (2021)
    Firebird
    • arranger: "The Seasons, Op. 37a
    • 2021
  • Sebastian Cavazza, Drazen Kuhn, Daniel Olbrychski, Milan Plestina, Lazar Ristovski, Kresimir Mikic, Niksa Butijer, and Iva Mihalic in What a Country! (2018)
    What a Country!
    • writer: "Glazba za igricu", "TV Jingle"
    • 2018
  • Miracle (2017)
    Miracle
    • writer: "Ave Maria No. 1", "Ave Maria No. 2"
    • 2017
  • Hot and Cold (2016)
    Hot and Cold
    • writer: "Last Lullaby"
    • Short
    • 2016
  • Dreams from Strangers (2015)
    Dreams from Strangers
    • writer: "La Suite de la Lune", "Clockwork Movement", "Aerial Silk"
    • 2015
  • Unmoved
    • writer: "Love Is Strange"
    • Short
    • 2014
  • Trashhh (2014)
    Trashhh
    • writer: "Happiness - Loneliness"
    • Short
    • 2014
  • Mój norweski dziadek (2010)
    Mój norweski dziadek
    • writer: "Danse No. 3 from Danses d'après Henri Matisse"
    • Short
    • 2010

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Anna Karenina / Adam's Waltz by Krzysztof A. Janczak
Demo Reel 2:08
Anna Karenina / Adam's Waltz by Krzysztof A. Janczak
Even Mice Belong in Heaven (2021) - Official Trailer
Demo Reel 2:18
Even Mice Belong in Heaven (2021) - Official Trailer
The Pleasure Principle - Official Trailer
Demo Reel 2:03
The Pleasure Principle - Official Trailer
The Talking Dogs Orchestra!
Demo Reel 0:30
The Talking Dogs Orchestra!

Personal details

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  • Alternative name
    • Krzysztof Aleksander Janczak
  • Born
    • May 1, 1983
    • Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
  • Other works
    Le Cirque de la Lune [Album]

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