National Library gets jazzman Pawlik’s scores
PR dla Zagranicy
Roberto Galea
27.11.2015 09:00
Poland’s Grammy-winning jazz pianist and composer Włodek Pawlik has presented a selection of his autograph scores to the National Library in Warsaw.
Włodek Pawlik. Photo: Facebook.com/Włodek Pawlik
These include sketches of his Piano Concerto No. 2, settings of verse by prominent Polish poets (Czesław Miłosz, Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, Józef Czechowicz) and soundtracks to films “Reverse” (dir. Borys Lankosz) and “Within the whirlwind” (dir. Mirteen Gorris).
Pawlik’s scores have enriched the National Library’s Polish Jazz Archive collection, which already includes a wide selection of manuscripts, documents and photographs of such household names in jazz as Krzysztof Komeda (1931-1969) and Zbigniew Seifert (1946-1979).
The National Library is planning to submit an application to UNESCO to include the Polish Jazz Archives in the organisation’s Memory of the World register.
Fifty seven year-old Włodek Pawlik studied piano performance in Warsaw and Hamburg.
In addition to jazz, his diverse output comprises symphonic music, film soundtracks and incidental music for the theatre.
In 2014 his CD “Night in Calisia” received a Grammy in the Best Large Jazz Ensemble category. (mk/rg/rk)