Age: 67
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Włodzimierz Pawlik, born on 4th October, 1958 in Kielce, is a graduate in piano of the Conservatory in Warsaw and of the HochSchule fuer Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Hamburg. He is a laureate of many national and international competitions. Włodek Pawlik has played concerts on all continents. He has composed symphonic, film, jazz, vocal and chamber music. His musical output includes Koncert fortepianowy / The Piano Concerto. He taught at Western Michigan University and at the International Jazz Conference in Los Angeles in 1999. He has recorded for radio and television. He has performed at the most important jazz festivals all over the world (in 1998 at the North Sea Jazz Festival in Haga). He worked with the American band Western Jazz Quartet and with other famous musicians such as Richie Cole, Spike Robinson, Sal Nistico, Herb Geller, Alex Riel, Johannes Faber, Dusko Goykovic, Wolfgang Haffner, Scott Hamilton, Tom Knific, Billy Hart, Randy Brecker. In 2012, Pawlik reunited with Randy Brecker during a recording session of Night In Calisia – released both in Poland and in the USA (Summit Records). His performance on the album received another nomination for the ‘Fryderyk 2013’ award for best Polish jazz musician of the year. The album was awarded the 2014 Grammy Award in the Best Large Ensemble Album category.
Edward VI, the only legitimate male heir of King Henry VIII, took his seat on the throne at the age of nine. His life would come to an end when he was only fifteen years old, but the mark he would come to leave on England’s history has endured to this day. This part of the Tudor period was chock-full of social unrest and economic struggles as well as turmoil over religious reforms, which the young king and his advisors often made worse by imposing substantial changes on their subjects. Edward VI led his country into a new age where the Church of England was no longer tied to the Catholic Church. Putting his efforts into spreading Protestantism throughout all of England, he continued his father’s work of freeing England from the Holy Roman Empire’s grasp. His successor and half-sister, Queen Mary I, better known as “Bloody Mary,” would try to undo many of Edward’s reforms, but the English Reformation to which Edward contributed significantly would resume its course upon her death.
