Jan Andrzej Pawe? Kaczmarek (born April 29, 1953 in Konin, Poland) is a Polish Academy Award-winning composer. He has written the scores for over thirty feature films and documentaries. Kaczmarek is a law-studies graduate of Adam Mickiewicz University in Pozna?, Poland. He worked with Jerzy Grotowski?s Theater Laboratory in the late 1970s and created the Orchestra of the Eighth Day in 1977. He recorded his first album, Music for the End, in 1982 for Flying Fish Records (Chicago). In 1989 he moved to Los Angeles. His music was released by Sony Classical, Decca, Varese Sarabande, Milan, and Savitor Records. He gives concerts in the U.S. and Europe.