Composer,
arranger and conductor, born November 2, 1951 in Olsztyn. He
gratuated from National Academy of Music in Poznan, where he studied
conducting with Witold Krzemieński and composition with Florian
Dabrowski.
During studies he took part in reactivation of jazz movement in
Wielkopolska. The result of this activity was a group Workshop,
which won several awards at festivals as Jazz nad Odrą (including
First Prize for composition and second prize in the instrumental
category). Jarmołowicz won third prize of the International Festival
of Jazz Pianists in Kalisz and special prize at the Festival of the
Złota Tarka (Golden Grate) in Warsaw.
Maestro Jarmołowicz collaborated with the Orchestra of Polish Radio
and Television in Poznan, with whom he has made many radio and CD
recordings, including his own compositions and arrangements. He also
composed and recorded music for theater (including Television
Theater), and films. In 1980 he was a finalist of Young Conductors
Competition in Besançon (France).
In the 80s and 90s he appeared in Western Europe as a conductor and
general music director of the US-German production of famous
musicals (among other things Cabaret, West Side Story). He performed
and recorded with many orchestras, including Das Sinfonie Orchester
Berlin.
As a conductor, Jarmołowicz has made numerous recordings. In 1998 he
was nominated for the prestigious Grammy Award for album of a rarely
performed compositions for saxophone and chamber orchestra, realized
with orchestra Sinfonia Baltica (from Slupsk) and American
saxophonist Greg Banaszak.
He has a number of premieres of works by Polish composers on his
account, including Krzesimir Debski, Matthew Kuźnik Norbert, Piotr
Moss.
He has collaborated with most of the famous Polish soloists and
foreign artists, among others Katherine Dejonghe, Greg Banaszakiem,
Vadim Brodsky, Richard Galliano, Philippe Giusiano, Cyprien Katsaris,
Kevin Kenner, Gennady Woskresienskim, Grigorij Zhyslin.
He has received numerous public and art awards, among them: Radio
Personality of the Year - a distinction granted by the management
and the journalists of Radio Gdańsk and Pomeranian Artistic Award
twice.
Continuously since 1990 he conducts the inaugural concerts of Poland
Polish Piano Festival, held every year in Slupsk. Besides,
Jarmołowicz is the director of the State Chamber Orchestra and
Theater in Slupsk since 1992, transformed in the Polish Philharmonic
Sinfonia Baltica in 2005.
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