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| I started with a Mickey Mouse wind up guitar and did graduate to a Roy Roger's guitar, with Trigger on the back, before I was 5 years old. My grandmother, who lived with us (she was from Poland) knew some how that what she saw was a kid who may like music. I started guitar lessons at Americana Studio of Music and Dance in Detroit, Michigan, owned by Frank Tucci, under the direction of Don Barr. I purchased my first guitar, an Epiphone Sorrento, and amplifier when I was 8 years old with my First Holy Communion money.
I started to play professionally at 13 in a wedding group, The Parliaments that my future brother-in-law was a part of. Since then, 1968-2008, I have either been playing or teaching. For ten years I performed with Polka group, The Polka-Delics, I played electric guitar, bass, violin and some concertina. For a tad while I played with the Marziasz Brothers in a Polonia group, Quo Vadis. In 1981 then I hooked with with a High School friend Joe Borkowski and we entertained the Detroit-Metro area for 20 years. In 1987 I was given the Best of Detroit Folk Guitar Award by The Metro Times. I played Ovation guitars mostly and in the last six years I intergrated Roland's Gr-07 in to the act. I went to study music at Eastern Michigan Unversity because they had guitar program there. I auditioned and played some original works for guitar for Dr. Nelson Amos, the guitar instructor, that I had composed and because of that I studied composition with Dr. Anthony Iannaccone. Dr. Amos introduced me to lute music. As I was in Hawai'i, September 1975, I noticed there was luthier. I bought a personalized custom lute and it flown from Honolulu to Detroit 10 months later. I did my junior and senior recitals on lute and guitar. As present I have done lute demonstrations at Texas A & M, in Commerce when called upon. Along with many works that I composed I composed a Mass in dedication to Pope John Paul II. The Mass integrated contemporary styles with fusion of 16th century counterpoint. The Mass is S,A,T,B with no guitar. The Mass was my first vocal composition. I was the first guitarist at Eastern to have my bachelor's degree in guitar performance and the first guitarist to win consecutive concerto auditions (Vivaldi's Concero for Guitar in D, Largo (2nd movement) of the Concierto de Aranjuez by Joaquin Rodrigo). My Masters final project was to take the entire Libro Primo de Intavolaturo d' Lauto by Girolamo Kapsberger (which was in tablature for a ten course lute which was published in Rome in 1611) and put into contemporary guitar notation. It was the first in the world to be totally transcribed. I was published in the Guitar Federation of America's periodical SOUNDBOARD. (see my creative page) Along my adventures abroad, I played in almost every country I had visited. I have performed or shared musical experience with people within Italy, Poland, France, UK, Greece, Iceland, and China. My latest endevour had been to compose a work in memory of Dimitris Fampas. I employed melodies that were used roughly 2,000 years ago and put them in to suite. The work is called The Hellenic Suite and will have its debut in Athens, Greece some time in 2009. My guitar playing has a lot various musical influences, from Jimi Page to Paul Simon, from Andres Segovia to Julian Bream, to Antonia Carlos Jobim to Carlos Montoya, from Wes Montgomery to Earl Klugh, from Mason Williams to Chet Atkins only to name a few. Nestor Guestrin, an Argentinian guitarist-composer sums it up; “….the mixture between classical language with jazz harmonies, ecuadorian modes with renaissance, Bernstein with Kapsberger, indian melodies with bossa, samba or spanish tango, and all around guitar.” All my guitar works are posted on Amie Street. http://amiestreet.com/joerosochacki I also have done studies on the sitar, pi'pa, and Oud. My interest lies in ethnomusicology and I have done graduate papers of the preceding instruments. I will eventually upload a few works and a few notated works on the other formats within this website. I am currently living in Cumby, Texas with my wife Judy. Although I was plagued by a medical condition a few years back in 2006 but by God's good grace and medical technology I am slowly coming back and intend to give recital in the future. | ||
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March 11, 2009
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