Krzysztof Aleksander Janczak

Krzysztof Aleksander Janczak (born 1 May 1983) is a Polish composer of film, classical and TV music, sound designer and musicologist. Biography Janczak was born on 1 May 1983 in Warsaw, Poland. From 2002 to 2006 he studied in Institute of Musicology at University of Warsaw. In 2007, he got his Diploma of Musicology and received the Artistic Scholarship of the French Government. He continued his studies in composition and orchestration classes in École Normale de Musique de Paris and Maurice Ravel Conservatory in Paris with Michel Merlet, the winner of the Grand Prix de Rome and former student of Olivier Messiaen and Igor Stravinsky. In 2008 he got his Diplomas of musical composition and Orchestration with a special mention and in 2009 he got Advanced Diploma of Orchestration. Janczak is the award-winning composer of film, classical and television music. He received the prizes and distinctions at numerous festivals and competitions, among other: International Film Festival Camerimage in Łódź (2004 and 2008); Silver Cross of Merit form President of Poland in Warsaw (2006); 1st, 2nd and 3rd Prize at the International Composers Competition “Garden Music” in Kraków (2007, 2009 and 2011)