Cezary Skubiszewski

Cezary Jan Skubiszewski (born 1948) is a Polish-born Australian film and television composer whose work has received international acclaim winning numerous awards. Most notably Cezary is the recipient of four Australian Academy Film Television Awards (AACTA). He composed the film scores for Two Hands (1999), Death Defying Acts (2008) Red Dog (2011), The Sapphires (2012) and the TV series, Picnic at Hanging Rock (2018).

Personal life and education Skubiszewski was born in Warsaw, Poland. His mother was a classical pianist. Skubiszewski, himself began piano lessons at 8 years of age and received a classical musical education over a period of 10 years under the tutelage of the choir director of the Warsaw Opera. In the late 1960s, Skubiszewski played in bands including ACB with other Warsaw musicians such as Aleksander Bem. He then spent one year in Paris and did not return to Poland due to the nation's political situation and his own sense of wanderlust. They have two children, Viva Bianca and Jan Skubiszewski. Both work in the Australian entertainment industry.

Career In Australia, during 1978 and 1979, Skubiszewski played the Moog synthesizer, Rhodes piano and Clavinet in his jazz fusion band, Corroboree (an Aboriginal Australian word meaning a meeting involving traditional dance and song).

Skubiszewski's beginning as a professional music composer began with a piece urgently required for an advertisement for Lincraft, an Australian haberdashery chain store company. Of this score, Skubiszewski said, "It was a very special experience. I wanted to find a nucleus of feeling without the little trills. It sits on you emotionally without bombarding you." In 2018, Skubiszewski wrote the soundtrack for the Picnic at Hanging Rock television series.

Awards and nominations Skubiszewski has been nominated in Australian award programs and has won on several occasions. These programs include the APRA Awards, the ARIA Music Awards, the Film Critics Circle of Australia awards and others.

Selected discography

1981 Home at Last (symphony) 1991 Soundescape (music theatre) 1994 Sky Trackers (TV) 1995 Lilian's Story (film) 1996 Hurah a.k.a. Heaven Sent (film) 1998 The Sound of One Hand Clapping (film) 1999 Two Hands (film) 1999 Witch Hunt (TV film) 2000 Bootmen (film) 2000 The Wog Boy 2001 La Spagnola 2002 Black and White (film) 2003 After the Deluge (TV) 2003 The Rage in Placid Lake 2004 The Brush-Off (TV) 2005 Hating Alison Ashley (film) 2006 The Book of Revelation (film) 2006 The Society Murders (TV) 2007 Death Defying Acts (film) 2008 Night (film) 2008 (Lionel) (film) 2009 Carla Cametti PD (TV) 2009 Blessed (film) 2009 Bran Nue Dae (film) 2010 Beneath Hill 60 (film) 2010 Wolf Blass television advertisements 2011 Red Dog (film) 2012 The Sapphires (film) 2015 Oddball (film) 2016 Red Dog: True Blue (film) 2018 Tiger (film) 2020 Mosquito State (film) 2021 Falling for Figaro (film)