Zbigniew Preisner is a Polish film score composer, best known for his work with film director Krzysztof Kieslowski.
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10 Facts About Zbigniew Preisner
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Zbigniew Preisner is the recipient of the Gold Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis as well as the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta.
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Zbigniew Preisner is a member of the French Film Academy.
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Zbigniew Preisner has won a number of other awards, including another Cesar in 1994 for Three Colors: Red, and the Silver Bear from the 47th Berlin International Film Festival 1997 for The Island on Bird Street.
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Zbigniew Preisner was nominated for Golden Globe awards for his scores for Three Colors: Blue and At Play in the Fields of the Lord.
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Zbigniew Preisner composed the theme music for the People's Century, a monumental 26-part documentary made jointly in 1994 by the BBC television network in United Kingdom and the PBS television network in the United States.
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Zbigniew Preisner has worked with director Thomas Vinterberg on the 2003 film It's All About Love.
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Zbigniew Preisner provided orchestration for David Gilmour's 2006 album On An Island as well as additional orchestrations for the show at Gdansk shipyards at which he conducted the Baltic Philharmonic Orchestra, this was documented on the album Live in Gdansk.
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Silence, Night and Dreams is Zbigniew Preisner's new recording project, a large-scale work for orchestra, choir and soloists, based on texts from the Book of Job.
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