Jacek Ostaszewski

He is the son of Tadeusz Ostaszewski [pl], a sculptor and professor at the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts, and Krystyna Ostaszewska [pl] née Dębowska, an actress at the Rhapsodic Theatre in Kraków. He is the husband of Małgorzata Ostaszewska and the father of Maja Ostaszewska.^[1]

In the early 1970s he was a co-founder (with Marek Jackowski) and leader of the Osjan group. As a jazz musician, he has collaborated with Marek Grechuta and the Anawa [pl] band, Tomasz Stańko, Adam Makowicz, Krzysztof Komeda, Don Cherry, Andrzej Kurylewicz, Andrzej Trzaskowski and Włodzimierz Nahorny [pl], among others.^[2]

He composed music for theatre, for the plays Kalkwerk and Lunatycy, directed by Krystian Lupa at the Stary Theatre in Kraków, among others,^[3] ballet, and film. He was a lecturer at the State Drama School in Kraków.^[2]