SLAVEK KOWALEWSKI

Slavek Kowalewski (full name Slavomir) is an award-winning German-Polish composer and pianist based in Tokyo. His work on major film and broadcast productions includes original scores for NHK, Fuji TV, Nihon-TV, Hulu, TV Tokyo, and TBS networks, as well as Japan's top pop act, AKB48, and covers a wide range of musical genre, ranging from full classical orchestral scores to Japanese traditional, piano solo, jazz, electronic, minimal, and avant-garde... Slavek began playing piano at five, played in bands (alternating guitar, drums, and bass), studied the sitar from Shalil Shankar, and produced punk albums, all while continuing to win prizes for his classical piano playing. He completed his musical education at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, where he was studying piano with Håkon Austbø. Later, he went on to study counterpoint, orchestration, and scoring for film, from multiple-award-winning composer Jurre Haanstra.

Also known as: Slavek

Primary location: Williams Japan