Jan Radzynski was born in
Warsaw, Poland in 1950 to a musical family. His mother supported and guided his early piano studies, and one of his great-grandfathers had served as an army
bandmaster in the Austro-Hungarian military before
World War I. At
Yale University, he worked with renowned composers
Krzysztof Penderecki and
Jacob Druckman, completing his master's degrees in 1979 and 1980, and a
Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) in 1984. == Career ==