Leszek Możdżer is a Polish jazz pianist and composer born in 1971 in Gdańsk, Poland. He showed a talent for piano from a young age, beginning lessons at age 5. He has won several Polish music awards and has performed internationally, including concerts with over 15,000 people in Chile. Możdżer composes music for theater, film, and dance productions in addition to performing his own jazz compositions. He sees music as allowing his hands' wisdom and experience to express themselves freely.
3. Leszek Możdżer wanted to be a
musician since childhood. When
he was 5 years old he began
learning to play the piano, and
when it turned out he has talent
his parents enrolled him to music
school and spared no sacrifice
allowing him further
development. – Then buying a
piano was a huge expense. Either
a car or a piano. His parents
chose the instrument – says
Leszek Możdżer.
4.
5. 1998 nominated for the Fryderyk Polish recording industry in 1998
for Jazz Album of the Year (Leszek Możdżer and Adam Pierończyk -
Live in Sofia)
1999 Award Fryderyk Polish recording industry in 1999 in the
category of Jazz musician of the year
2004 Wiktor 2004 award in the category of the most popular singer
and stage artist
2006 Awards Stage Polish Prometheus
2006 Gold baton of Merit for Polish Culture
2006 Grand Award of the Cultural Foundation
2009 handprint composer in the Promenade of Stars in Gdańsk in
the courtyard of the Polish Baltic Philharmonic
2011 Frederick for best original soundtrack "Kaczmarek to Możdżer"
6. Alex Han, Leszek Możdżer and Sean Jones, 2011
"Hair" (1999, Musical Theatre in Gdynia them. Danuta Baduszkowej, musical
director)
"Tango with Lady M." (2000, Polish Dance Theatre - Poznań Ballet Poznan, music)
"Midsummer Night's Dream" (2001, Musical Theatre in Gdynia them. Danuta
Baduszkowej, musical director)
"Tangerines and oranges" (2003, Musical Theatre-Operetta Wroclaw Wroclaw,
musical arrangement and music)
"... and I'm dancing" (2003, Polish Dance Theatre - Poznań Ballet Poznan, music)
"Bajlandia" (2004, music)
"The Madman and the Nun" (2005, Long distance Departments Krakow Wroclaw
Academy of Dramatic Arts, Music)
"Stink in the Mountains" (2006, Musical Theatre "Capitol" Wroclaw, music director,
music)
"Operetta" (2007, Musical Theatre "Capitol" Wrocław, music)
"Maiden Vows" (2007, National Theatre in Warsaw, music)
"Midsummer Night's Dream" (2007, Krakow Academy of Dramatic Arts, Music)
7. "Weiser" (as a musician at the station, 2000,
psychological film / drama, directed by
Wojciech Marczewski)
"Yellow Scarf" (as pianist for the cocktail,
2000, drama, directed by Janusz
Morgenstern)
"Pub 700" (as himself, 2007 documentary
film, directed by Sylwester Latkowski)
"The effect of Chopin" (as himself, in 2010,
documentary film, directed by Krzysztof
Dzięciołowski)
8. "It is understood that I am alone. And this is a
great fear, but it is also a source of power.
Previously, I had an external reference points.
Authorities. Now on propping no one.„
"Muscles hand must be trained and well
warmed up, so I can freely express. To be
able to tell something for me. 'Cause your
hands have their wisdom if they were carried
out. And as if led me. Then music releases
itself and lives its own life now . And I remain
alone. "
9. He has several thousand performances, of
which the biggest impression made on him
that played in Chile before the 15-thousand
audience. It was his first appearance before
such a large audience. - It was a powerful
experience for me, to deal with the mass of
the people, control over this space, the large
number of awareness - he says. - That was
fast.