Michał Lorenc


Michał Lorenc is a Polish film score composer, best known for his work on films Little Rose, Bastard, Blood and Wine and 300 Miles to Heaven. He is currently considered one of the most important contemporary Polish film score composers.

Career

He was born on 5 October 1955 in Warsaw. In 1973, he joined the folk rock band Wolna grupa Bukowina founded by Wojciech Belon and remained one of its members for four years. In the 1970s, he collaborated with Marcin Wolski on Polish Radio Programme 3 and frequently appeared on Maciej Zembaty's radio show Zgryz. Between 1979-1981, he was one of the members of Teatr panoramiczny together with Jacek Kleyff and Michał Tarkowski.
Since his debut in 1979, Lorenc has composed music for more than 150 feature films, documentaries, TV series and theatre performances. He has won five Golden Lions at the Gdynia Film Festival and Polish Film Festival Award for best movie score. The films and TV series in which his film scores appear include Sekal Has to Die, Little Rose, 300 Miles to Heaven, A Prominent Patient, Ojciec Mateusz, Bastard, Fotoamator, Four Nights with Anna, Kołysanka, Exit in Red, Kanalia, Sauna, Kroll, Deborah, Przedwiośnie, Żurek, Glina, Złoto dezerterów, Amok and Nic.
In 1996, he wrote the score for Bob Rafelson's film Blood and Wine starring Jack Nicholson, Jennifer Lopez and Michael Caine. It was selected by 20th Century Fox film studio for an Academy Award nomination.
In 2016, to celebrate the 1050 anniversary of the Baptism of Poland as well as the opening of the Temple of Divine Providence in Warsaw, an album entitled Przymierze containing Lorenc's music works was released. The same year, he received Poland's highest official distinction - the Order of the White Eagle. He is a member of the European Film Academy, the Polish Film Academy and the Czech Film Academy.

Works

"Film is the only inspiration and ultimate goal for me. I do not compose any other music. It turned out that my gift for composing is limited to the cinema. I don't know what kind of feelings I should evoke in audiences in concert halls."
"You don't compose music for a film but for SOMEBODY. The same film, if made by a different man, would have a completely different music."

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