Korzeniowski’s Penny Dreadful Score Nominated for Emmy
Polish composer Abel Korzeniowski has been nominated for an Emmy Award. In July 2016 his music for the Showtime TV series Penny Dreadful received a nomination for Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Original Dramatic Score).
Penny Dreadful is set in the Victorian era and features characters from classic horror novels such as Victor Frankenstein, Dorian Gray, Dracula and Abraham Van Helsing. Three seasons have already been broadcast on Showtime since 2014, starring Eva Green, Josh Hartnett, Timothy Dalton and others.
This is not Abel Korzeniowski’s first prestigious nomination. He has already been nominated for the Golden Globe twice – in 2010 for Best Original Score with Tom Ford’s A Single Man, and in 2012 for Best Original Score with Madonna’s W.E. In 2013, he won three IFMCA awards: his music for Carlo Carlei’s Romeo and Juliet won the awards for Best Film Score and Best Original Score for a Drama Film while he himself was named Best Composer of the Year.
The Penny Dreadful soundtrack has already garnered recognition in the film industry – in 2015 it earned Korzeniowski the BAFTA Television Craft Award along with two Emmy nominations (Outstanding Original Main Title Music and Outstanding Music Composition for a Series).
The Emmy Awards are sometimes called the Television Academy Awards. They have been awarded since 1949 to recognise excellence in the television industry.
Abel Korzeniowski was born in 1972 in Kraków. He graduated from the Academy of Music in Kraków, where he studied cello and composition under Krzysztof Penderecki’s supervision. He composed soundtracks for various Polish films, including Big Animal by Jerzy Stuhr, An Angel in Kraków by Artur Więcek and A Grain of Truth by Borys Lankosz.
Sources: Emmys.com, own materials, ed. BS, transl. EP, July 2016
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