Michael Markowski Composer publisher

Joyride Michael Markowski

Nearly ten years ago, in the summer of 2005, I was on stage at Carnegie Hall in New York City playing alto saxophone as a senior in my high school band. The concert lineup: Grainger, de Meij, Mackey, and just under three minutes of Markowski. When my band director, Jon Gomez, first received word that our high school music department was selected to perform in New York, he as ...

The Cave You Fear Michael Markowski

[EN]I’ve been thinking a lot lately about all the opportunities we’re given day-to-day to try something new or to go somewhere we’ve never been before—the opportunity to take a spontaneous road trip, to go see a concert by a band we’ve never heard of at a venue we’ve never been to, to try that new restaurant down the street where the menu is in a language we don’t quite underst ...

Embers Michael Markowski

Embers is a little difficult to put into words because it's partly about my dad's mental health, which has slowly been fading, and the grace that my mom has carried herself with even as her 29-year marriage also fades. My dad's condition didn't diminish overnight; unfortunately, it's been much more insidious than that, taking nearly ten years for anyone in our family to recogni ...

Reckoning Michael Markowski

Reckoning began as a musical underdog story: an unlikely hero's determination to right certain wrongs that had been brought upon him or her in the past and that hero's ambition to prove that they are a force to be reckoned with. I often liken it to a David and Goliath type of story: small versus big, poor versus rich. For example, the piece opens in a dark and oppressive world ...

Saturn Returns Michael Markowski

The planet Saturn takes approximately 29 years to orbit the Sun. When we grow up and enter our mid-to-late twenties, Saturn "returns" to the same position in the sky as it was when we were born. This is often a time of great reflection, filled with intense self-questioning about our careers, our relationships, and our very sanity. The significance here is that the completion of ...

Famishius Fantasticus - Score & Parts Michael Markowski

2012 marked the 100th birthday of the late and great Looney Tunes director, Chuck Jones. His work and the work of his colleagues, Tex Avery, Bob Clampett, Friz Freleng, to name a few has helped shape my personality for as far back as I can remember. When I was first asked to write a piece that "captured the energy of the students," I couldn't help but think that Wile E. Coyote ...

Walden Michael Markowski

Much of the music I have written over the last several years has been a fast, frenetic dreamcatcher of rhythm and texture. While I love this fast-paced electrifying style, it was my friend, Robert Stumpf, who first preached simplicity and, over the years, has continued to urge me to write more lyrically. With Robert's words still echoing in the back of my head, the idea only re ...

All My Heart Michael Markowski

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You Are Cordially Invited Michael Markowski

You Are Cordially Invited was commissioned by Paul Corn and the Susan E. Wagner High School wind ensemble to celebrate the opening of a brand new performing arts building on campus a rarity among New York City public schools. Rather than shine a spotlight on the building itself, this brief fanfare is a musical invitation to the students who enter these facilities every day to c ...