JAN JARCZYK, PIANIST, COMPOSER AND TROMBONIST

Jan Jarczyk, polish- born pianist, composer, lives in North America-USA and Canada since 1977. While in Boston. Mass. he worked with many Boston-based musicians and taught harmony and composition from 1980 to 1985 at Berklee College of Music.

Jan received his BA as pianist in 1970, MM Degree in Classical Composition in 1972 in Krakow, Poland, and Artist Diploma at Berklee College of Music as trombonist/composer/arranger in 1980.

He has written music for various size ensembles, from solo pieces to full-size symphony orchestra, which have been performed in Boston, Washington (DC), Chicago, Minneapolis, Montreal, Mainz (Germany), London, Bruxelles and Poland. Since 1994 he has recorded 7 CDs in Montreal as pianist, leader and arranger-composer (and 5 as an arranger of both commercial (for singers) and non-comercial productions, one of them, "Things to Look For", received a nomination for a Felix Award in 1996. Mr. Jarczyk has composed music for The Polish Jazz Studio Orchestra, Polish TV and Radio, theaters and films both in Poland and North America (US and Canada). Recipient of the Polish Composers Society Annual Scholarship in 1969-71, Mr. Jarczyk also won the Grand Prix of the Concours d’improvisation de piano jazz in Lyon, France in 1974, and the SOCAN award for Best Jazz Composition during the Montreal Jazz Festival in 1999. Mr.Jarczyk divides his time between composing, performing and teaching duties as Professor at McGill University Shulich School of Music.

Jan Jarczyk has performed and recorded in Poland, Germany, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Austria, France, Benelux, Scandinavia, the USA, Japan, Spain, Kuwait and Canada with such prominent musicians as Zbiggy Seifert, Tomasz Stanko, Zbigniew Namyslowski, Leszek Zadlo, Janusz Stefanski, Phil Wilson, Greg Hopkins, Tim Hagans, Donny McCaslin, Aaron Scott, Pat LaBarbera, Jan De Haas, Jean-Pierre Zanella, Michel Donato, Kevin Dean, Neil Sveinson, Andre White, Dave Laing, Remi Bolduc, and Charito among many others.