Janusz Koman

Composer, arranger, pianist and producer born in Lodz.
He began his musical education on piano at the age of 6.
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At the age of about 13-14 he began his studies in the percussion class led by Professor Skowera at the music school in Łódź, and in the trumpet class with Professor Szejwałło.
He founded his first band in Łódź under the name:
47th generation of Piast and Rzepicha
in the club of the Łódź Sports Club, where the program was dominated by the Beatles and Rolling Stones repertoire.
At the age of 17 he went to Gdańsk, where he joined the Szeptacze band at the ŻAK student club.

Debut on the professional stage - May 1967 in the "Czerwono-Czarni" band.
From 1969 to 1972 cooperation with PAGART.
 In 1972 - program: "Krystyna Prońko and Koman Band"
1973 - 1991 Polish Song Festival in Opole and other festivals:
Opole`73 Krystyna Pronko - award in the Interpretation category- "Po co ci to chłopcze" (Koman-Szczepkowski)
                                                                                  "Umarłe krajobrazy" (Koman-Walczak)
Opole`74 Janusz Koman    - award for the best arrangement    - "Papierowe ptaki" (Koman-Szczepkowski),
                                                                                 in performance Krystyna Prońko    
Opole`75 Krystyna Pronko -award in the Interpretation category - "Anioł i róża" (Koman-Szczepkowski,
                                                              "Niech moje serce kołysze ciebie do snu" (Koman-Dutkiewicz)
Sopot`77 Zdzisawal Sosnicka - Grand Prix du Disque - "Jeden świat" (Koman-Kofta),
Opole`78 Premiere of the rock opera "3400 years after Icarus" (muzyka J. Koman, libretto B. Olewicz)
Sopot`80 VOX - Festiwal Interwizji - 1st Record Day Award and Audience Award
Bratysława`80 VOX - Grand Prix, Golden Lyre, Bronze Lyre
Opole`85 Janusz Koman - special award for arrangements of festival songs
Opole`86 Janusz Koman - distinction in the arrangement category
Opole`87 Janusz Koman - award for the song "Zagranicą" (Koman-Korczakowski)
Opole`91 Janusz koman - award for the song "Moja cierpliwość" (Koman-Młynarski)
                                                                                 in performance Danuta Błażejczyk  
Creative collaboration:
Stan Borys, Andrzej Dabrowski, Wojciech Mlynarski, Zbigniew Wodecki, Ryszard Rynkowski, Zbigniew Namyslowski,
VOX, „2+1”, Czerwono-Czarni, Niebiesko-Czarni, Andrzej Zaucha, Hanna Banaszak, Ewa Bem, Majka Jezowska,
Jacek Skubikowski, Grazyna Lobaszewska, Krystyna Pronko, Zdzislawa Sosnicka, Urszula Sipinska, FIESTA,
Janusz Kondratowicz, Maria Czubaszek, Bogdan Olewicz, Wlodzimierz Patuszynski, Wojciech Waglewski, Jan Wolek,
Danuta Blazejczyk, Krzysztof Krawczyk, Krzysztof Dzikowski, Grzegorz Walczak, Janusz Szczepkowski, Jacek
Korczakowski, Leonard Kaczanowski, Andrzej Olejniczak, Krzysztof Scieranski, "Adzik" Sendecki, Zbigniew Jaremko,
Jan Zajac, Marek Dutkiewicz, Agnieszka Osiecka, Jonasz Kofta, Maria Czubaszek, Jerzy Gruza, Janusz Kondratiuk,

Orchestras:
Henryk Debich, Stefan Rachon, Zbigniew Gorny, Jerzy Milian, Andrzej Trzaskowski, Polish Radio and Television in Lodz, Poznan, Warsaw and Katowice

Concerts:
Europe, the Middle East, Cuba, Italy, and the entire territory of the former USSR 

Recordings:
over 400 pieces for Polish Radio, TV, Polskie Nagrania, Pronit, JKP Studio, musicals, rock operas, film, theatre and ballet music.

Film:
2010-2012: full-length film interviews with outstanding artists from the ZAiKS Authors’ Association, such as::
Jacek Bochenski, Jozef Hen, Wojciech Mlynarski, Jacek Cygan, Romuald Lipko,  Jerzy "Dudus" Matuszkiewicz, Edward
Pallasz, Ryszard Poznakowski, Eustachy Rylski, Krzysztof Dzikowski, Feliks Falk, Zbigniew Holdys, Janusz
Kondratowicz, Henryk Kuzniak, Ilona Lepkowska, Janusz Majewski, Andrzej Mogielnicki, Bogdan Olewicz, Adam
Slawinski.

Koman Production Publishing House:
From 2000 to May 2017, approximately 5,000 titles were developed in the form of scores, pianos and voices for instruments: vocal, guitar, keyboard, bass, drums.

In 2021, he was awarded the Bronze Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis.
Lexicon of Polish Popular Music" - author Ryszard Wolanski. Publishing Agency "MOREX" - Warsaw 1995 & Koman Production
                             
        		 
© 2000 Janusz Koman