Bartosz Chajdecki (born 1980) is a Polish film & TV composer.
He started composing at the age of 12. Four years later, he was already working with the Akne Theatre in Kraków, including on the play "A Little Requiem for Kantor", which was staged in England, Germany, France, Brazil. He received the Fringe First award at the Edinburgh International Theatre Festival for it. He has worked for the Yale School of Drama, the New York School of Visual Arts and the Samuel Beckett Theatre in London, among others. In 2004, he graduated with honours from the Academy of Music in Kraków.
Composer of music for feature films and TV e.g. "Gods", "Breaking the Limits", "Simona Kossak", "Little Rose 2", "Feast of Fire", "The Champion of Auschwitz", "Colors of Evil: Red", "Life feels good", "I'm a Killer", "My Daughters of the Cow", "Baczynski", "Warsaw Uprising", "Animals", "Le temps d'Anna", the TV series "Furia" S.2, "Raven", "The Behaviourist", "Chyłka", "Mission Afghanistan", "A Vote of No Confidence", "Days of Honour".
Winner of the Transatlantyk Oceans Award granted by composer Jan A. P. Kaczmarek, the special "Bo wARTo!" award as part of RMF Classic's MocArt and the Polish Soundtrack of the Year award for his music to the series "Raven". Winner of the Komeda Grand Prix for his music for the film "The Champion of Auschwitz" and nominated for the World Soundtrack Public Choice Award for this film. [1]
In 2024, he was nominated for the Polish Soundtrack of the Year, the Komeda Grand Prix and the World Soundtrack Public Choice Award for his soundtrack to the film "Little Rose 2". [2]
Krzysztof Eugeniusz Penderecki was a Polish composer and conductor. His best-known works include Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima, Symphony No. 3, his St Luke Passion, Polish Requiem, Anaklasis and Utrenja. His oeuvre includes four operas, eight symphonies and other orchestral pieces, a variety of instrumental concertos, choral settings of mainly religious texts, as well as chamber and instrumental works.
George Richard Ian Howe, known professionally as George Fenton, is an English composer. Best known for his work writing film scores and music for television, he has received five Academy Award nominations, several Ivor Novello, BAFTA, Golden Globe, Emmy and BMI Awards, and a Classic BRIT. He is one of 18 songwriters and composers to have been made a Fellow of the Ivors Academy.
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Krzysztof Trzciński, known professionally as Krzysztof Komeda, was a Polish film music composer and jazz pianist. Perhaps best known for his work in film scores, Komeda wrote the scores for Roman Polanski’s films Knife in the Water (1962), Cul-de-sac (1966), The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967), and Rosemary’s Baby (1968). Komeda's album Astigmatic (1965) is often considered one of the most important European jazz albums. British critic Stuart Nicholson describes the album as "marking a shift away from the dominant American approach with the emergence of a specific European aesthetic."
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