Łukasz L.U.C. Rostkowski is an award-winning composer, music producer, and author of multimedia spectacles, TV shows, series, and films. His Sleepoholic music was chosen by the Oscar winners, Emmanuel Lubezki and Alejandro Inarritu for their special VR project, Carne y Arena, and was awarded a special Oscar at the Academy's 9th Annual Governor's Awards. He's an author of many multimedia spectacles and has worked with renowned composers (Krzysztof Penderecki, Leszek Możdżer, Jan AP Kaczmarek) and Oscar-winning animators, Zbigniew Rybczyński and Tomasz Bagiński. Rostkowski is the author of the music score for the latest film of Loving Vincent creators - DK and Hugh Welchman. The Peasants is a Polish candidate for Oscars 2024 in Best Foreign Film, Best Animation, and Best Original Score category.

Author of many conceptual albums and projects, Łukasz has been nominated several times for Fryderyk Awards. In 2010, he received the Paszport Polityki for Understanding Poland project, for Innovative Combination of Fields and Genres. In 2015, under the patronage of the European Capital of Culture Wrocław 2016, he founded the international big band Rebel Babel Film Orchestra, of which he became the leader. Rebel Babel Ensemble (RBE) has collaborated with prestigious institutions such as the Universal Hip-Hop Museum New York, the New Orleans Jazz Museum, the United Nations, and the Uprising Museum to name a few. This charismatic creator is appreciated for the scope and courage of his productions, eclecticism, original performances, and unconventional musical solutions. In his compositions, Rostkowski deliberately crosses numerous genres, creating on the border of new jazz, trip-hop, hip-hop, reggae, folk, electronic, and classical. His greatest passion is combining music with images and words. He composed and recorded with many outstanding instrumentalists and vocalists, including Katie Melua, Krzyszof Penderecki, Urszula Dudziak, Mum, Leszek Możdżer, Mum, Promoe, Rapsusklei, and collaborated with the world's best stage artist DJs, such as DJ Qbert or DJ Eprom, as well as with prestigious orchestras and brass bands, including the Grammy Award winners Hot 8 Brass Band. He supported live, among others: Tricky, The Prodigy, Talib Kweli, Coldcut, Massive Attack, and many other world-class artists.

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