Jason Staczek

Jason Staczek (born December 4, 1965) is an American composer, record producer and keyboardist.

Life and career Staczek was born in Washington, D.C., attended high school in Miami and studied physics at the University of Michigan. He played the Hammond organ in Seattle bands and sessions beginning in the 1990s. From 2002 to 2008 Staczek co-owned Chroma Sound, a music and film post-production studio and record label in Seattle. Clients of Chroma Sound included Presidents of the United States of America and Robyn Hitchcock. In 2003 Staczek was hired as staff composer for The Film Company, a Seattle film production studio, through which he met and developed a working relationship with Canadian director Guy Maddin.

Staczek has composed music for the soundtracks to the films Brand Upon the Brain! (2006), My Winnipeg (2008), Keyhole (2011), Jobriath A.D. (2012), The Roper (2013) and Song of the New Earth (2014). Brand Upon the Brain! premiered at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival, where the silent film was accompanied by a live orchestra conducted by Staczek, narrated by Louis Negin, with sound provided by three live Foley artists and a castrato-style singer. Staczek went on to conduct orchestras accompanying the film's live performances in Berlin, Buenos Aires, New York, Mexico City, San Francisco and Los Angeles.

Staczek was named a Sundance Composer Lab Fellow in 2012. His concert work for cimbalom and orchestra premiered at Benaroya Hall in Seattle in March 2013. The piece was released on the album Celebrate World Music which won the 2014 Independent Music Awards Vox Pop Award for Best Contemporary Classical Album.

Partial filmography Year FilmDirectorStudio / DeveloperNotable Mentions 2006 Brand Upon the Brain! Guy Maddin The Film Company Manohla Dargis (New York Times) Best of 2006. Staczek to conduct orchestral performance of live show presented by Basel Sinfonietta, June 2015. 2008 My Winnipeg Guy Maddin Buffalo Gal Pictures, Documentary Channel, Everyday Pictures #3, Time Magazine's Top 10 Movies of 2008. 2008 Holding This for You Marissa Rae Niederhauser Marissa Rae Niederhauser Official Selection, Dreamscapes 2009, Seattle International Film Festival. 2009 Night Mayor Guy Maddin National Film Board of Canada Won Best Experimental Short at South by Southwest in 2010. 2011 Keyhole Guy Maddin Everyday Pictures, Buffalo Gal Pictures Won Best Canadian Film award at Whistler Film Festival 2011. 2012 Jobriath A.D. 2012 The Roper 2014 Song of the New Earth Filming And We Were Young(Work in progress.) Andy Smetanka Andy Smetanka

TV Series Year Webster Crowell Alycia Delmore, Mel Eslyn

Partial Discography Year AlbumArtistLabelCredit 1999 Trad Arr Jones John Wesley Harding Appleseed Recordings Hammond organ, accordion, harpsichord, piano 2000 Rock Star God The Makers Sub Pop Hammond organ, piano 2002 What It Is And How to Get It Shuggie Good Ink Records Hammond organ, piano, Clavinet, Wurlitzer 2003 Only With Laughter Can You Win Rosie Thomas Sub Pop Hammond organ 2003 Motherfuckers Be Trippin' Supersuckers Mid Fi Hammond organ, piano 2005 Live Seattle 12/03/04 Goodness Kufala Hammond organ 2005 Alive Without Control The Black Halos Century Media Records Hammond organ, piano, Mellotron 2006 Nothing but Time Garth Reeves Chroma Records Producer, engineer, Hammond organ, piano, accordion, guitar, percussion, tambourine, backing vocals 2011 Keyhole Jason Staczek Milan Records Primary artist 2011 El Sonido Nuevo Ian Moore and The Lossy Coils Hablador Records Piano, Hammond organ 2011 Marble Son Jesse Sykes & the Sweet Hereafter Fargo Piano 2012 You, Anniversary Lindsay Fuller ATO Records Audio engineer, Hammond organ 2012 Pull It Together Shannon Stephens Asthmatic Kitty Fender Rhodes, Hammond organ 2012 Lung of Love Amy Ray Daemon Records Vocal engineer 2013 Imitations Mark Lanegan ATO Records Harpsichord 2013 Celebrate World Music Various Artists Burmer Music Composer of "Lila Sziv"