Cleaning Up

You know, this is just a nice story. From today's Telegraph comes a story of an immigrant from Poland working as a janitor who played a piano when he thought nobody would hear him. Fortunately, he was caught in the act. And now he's doing a different act.

A Polish janitor is on the way to a career as a concert pianist after being heard playing the chapel piano at Glasgow university when he thought no one was listening.

The talent of Aleksander Kudajczyk, who cleans the law department in the early morning, was discovered when the chaplaincy centre secretary, Joan Keenan, logged on to a webcam in the chapel and heard him.

Within minutes she had e-mailed dozens of friends and colleagues to do the same.

The 28-year-old Pole, who arrived in Scotland from Katowice six months ago, has been dubbed "a musical Good Will Hunting", after Matt Damon's film, and is now entertaining crowds at Glasgow's West End Festival.

Yesterday, Aleksander, a graduate of Katowice's Akademia Muzyczna, gave his second public performance in the University Memorial Chapel, playing a selection from Chopin.

He now practices 6-7 hours a day. Kudajczyk has been playing since he was four years old. In Poland he had played piano in restaurants. Now he has a shot at playing concerts.

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  By Sissy Willis, Wednesday, 20 June , 2007 @ 1:37 pm

  The Glasgow University Chapel: It’s the new “Britain’s Got Talent.” And no doggy odor Simon Cowell!

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