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Jarek CzechowiczJarek offers music-based programs and special events for people who are interested in spiritual awakening, enlightenment, wellbeing, and conscious living. His programs combine chanting, intuitive music, meditation and spontaneous discourses that explore the nature of thought, consciousness, and awareness. His music and chanting is a form of active meditation. Jarek first explored the guitar in his early teens playing popular music. His interest in improvisation and composition soon prompted him to seek new directions. A study of electronic music with Australian composer Felix Werder led to the production of composed and improvised electronic music for radio. Jarek later introduced students to electronic music through a Victorian Colleges program at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. During this period he also performed concerts of New Music and electronic music with Felix Werder and Australian jazz-guitar veteran Bruce Clarke. In 1979 Jarek took private tuition with Witold Rudzinski, senior professor of composition at the Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw. This led to a number of well received performances of his works and a strong interest in chamber music, particularly the string quartet. During the 1980s he formed the guitar duo The Name with classical guitarist Alan Lem. Together they performed daily in Polish Theatres during the Solidarity uprisings. As part of the Powszechny Theatre they were awarded first prize in the 1981 Polish National Theatre Competition. Their collaboration continued in Australia producing a series of live concerts and recordings. In the 1990s Jarek formed Deja with flautist David James. As artistic director of Deja Jarek regularly invited talented musicians to collaborate in live performances and recordings of improvised music. Many of these recordings are yet to be published. During the 1990s Jarek often presented intuitive music at yoga schools and at spiritual events. In 1993 he began experimenting with combining intuitive improvisation and chanting of the mantra OM or AUM, and often performed intuitve music with readings from sacred texts and mystic poets. In addition to performing Jarek has engineered and produced four compact discs of improvised music titled Once (1992), Gift (1998), You Are Here (2000) and In Search of The Heart Treasure (2002). As a teenager Jarek composed short chants and often chanted with friends as an enjoyable pastime. In 2003, inspired by various yoga and spiritual traditions, he re-introduced chanting into his programs. Jarek's chants are based in modern western melody and harmony, with a blend of English and Sanskrit words.
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