Lucyan

Lucyan was born in 24.03.1954 in Lodz (Poland). He attended the University of Lodz and got the degree of the Polish philology (literature and linguistic sciences) in 1981. From 1978 he engaged in the musical activity, playing various instruments, singing and composing. Playing guitar, electric bass, sitar (Indian lute), bamboo flutes (among them bansoori - Indian flute), blockflute (recorder), saz (Middle East lute), bouzouki (Greek lute), panduri, chonguri (Georgian lutes), mandola (Italian lute), drums (drumset), percussion and other instruments. As a singer he won the first prize of the festival We Sing the Poetry (Olsztyn, Poland 1983).
Lucyan has composed the music for different theatrical pieces and has recorded numerous musical albums with his compositions which have been produced in Poland, Italy, Hungary and USA. He has given different courses of musicotherapy in Poland and Italy, using his personal method which connects the western musicotherapy with the tradition of yoga and tantra. He is a honorary member of Italian Society of Immaginative Musicotherapy. Lucyan is a leader since 1983 of the Polish musical group Orientacja na Orient and since 1995 of the Italian band The Lucyan Group. He plays also in the Italian group Shakti Vilas, which presents the spiritual Indian songs bhajan and which has recorded 2 CDs (Italy, Hungary).