Michał Lorenc


Michał Lorenc is a Polish film score composer, who composed music of films such as 300 Miles to Heaven, Psy, Bastard, Blood and Wine and Little Rose.
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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

  • Przyjaciele
  • Latawiec
  • Żuraw i czapla
  • Magma
  • Kalejdoskop
  • A żyć trzeba dalej
  • Łuk Erosa
  • Zakole
  • 300 Miles to Heaven
  • Bal na dworcu w Koluszkach
  • Paziowie
  • Historia niemoralna
  • Kanalia
  • Kapitan Konrad
  • Pension sonnenschein
  • Superwizja
  • Zakład
  • Ferdydurke
  • Dziecko szczęścia
  • Halo, jestem tutaj!
  • Koniec gry
  • Kroll
  • Kapitan Conrad
  • Pamiętnik znaleziony w garbie
  • Psy
  • Sauna
  • Embrion
  • Lazarus
  • Lepiej być piękną i bogatą
  • A Magzat
  • Skutki noszenia kapelusza w maju
  • Wow
  • Łowca. Ostatnie starcie
  • Podróż na wschód
  • Psy II: Ostatnia krew
  • Ptaszka
  • Wyliczanka
  • Deborah
  • Pokuszenie
  • Prowokator
  • Exit in Red
  • Poznań 56
  • Fotoamator
  • Bride of War
  • Przystań
  • Blood and Wine
  • Sekal Has to Die
  • Bastard
  • Franciszkański spontan
  • Złoto dezerterów
  • Amok
  • Nic
  • Jak narkotyk
  • Wszystkie pieniądze świata
  • Zakochani
  • The Spring to Come
  • Żółty szalik
  • Daleko od okna
  • Przeprowadzki
  • Cisza i ciemność
  • Słoneczna włócznia
  • Dziewczyna z plakatu
  • Listy miłosne
  • Tam, gdzie żyją Eskimosi
  • Babie lato
  • Symetria
  • Żurek
  • Piekło, niebo
  • Są takie świeżuteńkie dziewczynki
  • Glina
  • Fale
  • Solidarność, Solidarność...
  • Oficer
  • Statyści
  • Wszystko będzie dobrze
  • Wino truskawkowe
  • Gry wojenne
  • Four Nights with Anna
  • O rodzicach i dzieciach
  • Ojciec Mateusz
  • Wyłączność
  • Mniejsze zło
  • Spokój w duszy
  • Śluby panieńskie
  • Syndrom
  • Czarny czwartek
  • Little Rose
  • Kołysanka
  • La Prima notte della luna
  • Jan Paweł II. Szukałem Was...
  • W imieniu diabła
  • Komisarz Alex
  • Strażacy
  • Historia Roja, czyli w ziemi lepiej słychać
  • Smoleńsk
  • A Prominent Patient
  • Masaryk
  • ''Psy 3. W imię zasad''

Selected awards and honours

Quotes

"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."

Trivia