WÅ‚odzimierz Pawlik

Włodzimierz " Włodek " Pawlik ( born October 4, 1958 in Kielce ) is a Polish jazz pianist and composer.

Life and work

Pawlik studied piano at the Fryderyk Chopin Music Academy in Warsaw and joined a jazz studies at the Hochschule für Musik in Hamburg. His recording debut was in 1987. Since the early 1990s, he is the leader of the Włodek Pawlik Trio. The first album released his trio in 1993 under the title Live At Birdland. The trio has performed with jazz greats such as Randy Brecker, Billy Hart and Richie Cole. Pawlik received numerous awards. He was elected several times to jazz musician of the year in Poland. In addition to the jazz music Pawlik composed music for several films. His first film score was created in 1994 to Dorota Kędzierzawskas film Wrony. He also wrote the music for films by Peter Greenaway and Marleen Gorris. In 2009 he was awarded for his music for the film Rewers at the Polish Film Festival Gdynia.

For the 1850 - year celebration of Kalisz town, one of the oldest cities in Poland, Pawlik organized in June 2010 a concert entitled Night in Calisia. In 2011 he took the composed specially for this event by him music on the U.S. jazz trumpeter Randy Brecker, his own trio with Paweł Panta and Cezary Konrad and the Philharmonic Orchestra of the City of Kalisz. The album was released in 2013, was nominated for a Fryderyk and 2014 as the best album of jazz ensembles large a Grammy Award.