Bogdan Mizerski
Bogdan Mizerski (born March 27, 1955 in Sosnowiec ) is a Polish double bass player, composer and writer.
Mizereski experiments with the combination of double bass and electronics. From 1978 he presented concerts with the writer Tadeusz Sławek , in which he combined spoken texts with music (including Eseje na głos i kontrabas ). From 1980 he also gave solo concerts. Since the early 1980s he has participated in Solidarność underground concerts in Warsaw, Gdansk and Łódź. In 1982 he performed with the singing and dance ensemble of the Silesian University in Castel Gandolfo before Pope John Paul II . Later he began to compose music for film, ballet and theater, for example for the Compagnie Elizabeth Czerczuk in Paris, the Teatr Witkacego in Zakopane and Zbigniew Waszkielewicz's Teatr IOTA . In 1989 he played his own transcriptions of Beatles songs with Beatlemania 1989 in the USSR.
He worked with the American rabbi Shlomo Carlebach and the dancers Iliana Alvarado and Alma Yoray and combined his own compositions with works by contemporary Polish painters such as Zdzisław Beksiński , Magdalena Abakanowicz , Henryk Waniek , Andrzej Szewczyk , Jerzy Duda-Gracz and Roman Kalarus . With Krzysztof Knittel , Mieczysław Litwiński and Tadeusz Sławek he formed the group Light from Poland from 1985 to 1987 . From 1987 to 1991 he led the blues band Blustro . In 1995 he played the live music for a performance of the silent film The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari in Budapest. With the Teatr Witkacego he took part in the 1998 International Festival for Experimental Theater in Cairo, and with the Compagnie Elisabeth Czerczuk in 2000 at the Avignon International Theater Festival. He composed the music for the outdoor sound and light show of the Sixth International Pyrotechnics and Laser Show 1998 in Olsztyn, which was performed in front of 300,000 spectators.
Mizerski gave concerts in Germany, France, Egypt, Algeria, Hungary, Slovakia, and Italy. He has participated in contemporary music, electronic and audio arts, jazz, blues and rock, sacred music and theater festivals, and has worked with multimedia artists, jazz musicians and improvisation musicians. Since 2004 he has been working in a duo with Andrzej Karpiński .
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| SURNAME | Mizerski, Bogdan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish double bass player, composer and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 27, 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sosnowiec |