Franck KRAWCZYK Franck Krawczyk is a pianist and composer. His masters are Serge Petitgirard and Claude Helffer for piano and Philippe Manoury and Gilbert Amy for composition. Very early on in his career he was discovered by the Paris Autumn Festival. He has composed many pieces for piano, violoncello, string quartets and ensembles. In 2000, he was awarded the Hervé Dugardin and Sacem Prize for Ruines,for orchestra. He transcribed works from Vivaldi, Chopin, Wagner, Schoenberg and others for the Accentus/Laurence Equilbey Choir, as well as MittelEuropa pieces for the violoncellist Sonia-Atherton (CD and DVD c/o Naïve: Chants d’Est). He teaches chamber music at Conservatoire National Supérieur for Music and Dance in Lyon, France. Between 2001 and 2009, he created, with Christian Boltanski and Jean Kalman, a dozen or so performances in France, Italy and Poland, mixing live music with installation (Bienvenue, O Mensch!, Happy Hours, Plein Jour/Le Soir/La Nuit/Le Matin, Tant que nous sommes vivants, Les Limbes, Freude, Poki my zyjemy... and Gute Nacht). He is currently working on creating new music forms for theatre (Je ris de me voir si belle, 2005 with J. Brochen), for readings (Les Limbes, Absence, with E. Ostrovski), for video (Private Joke with F. Salès) and for dance (Purgatorio-In Visione, 2008 with E. Greco and P.C. Scholten). The creation of Polvere, a musical composition and live performance event has been presented within Boltanski’s installation, Personnes, at Le Grand Palais/ Monumenta in early 2010. Today, the story continues with Dawn, an entirely new composition and live musical event, created specifically for the surrounds of Boltanski’s installation, No Man’s Land, in Wade Thompson Drill Hall, Park Avenue Armory, New York.

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