Karl Schindler, John Mackey, Frank Ticheli, Morten Lauridsen, Trey Parker, Jason Robert Brown, Robert Lopez & Jeff Marx, André Previn, Common, MF Doom, Garrison Keillor
MICHAEL MARKOWSKI (b. 1986) has studied music with his mentor and good friend, Jon Gomez, and currently studies composition with Dr. Karl Schindler.
Markowski has also briefly studied “the art of orchestration” with renowned television and film orchestrator Steven Scott Smalley in New York. In 2008, he was chosen for further education with the National Band Association’s Young Composer and Conductor Mentorship program where he studied with composers Mark Camphouse, Robert Sheldon, and Andrew Boysen Jr.
In 2006, his work for concert band, Shadow Rituals, was honored with first prize in the first Frank Ticheli Composition Contest, sponsored by Manhattan Beach Music. The work is now published by Manhattan Beach Music and is on several state lists including the Texas Prescribed Music List. The piece has received a number of prestigious performances since its premiere by the Arizona State University Wind Symphony, some of which include the Midwest Clinic in Chicago by the VanderCook College of Music and by the 4A Honor Band at the 2008 Texas Music Educators Association Conference, Poteet High School. Shadow Rituals has been performed worldwide from Australia, to London, to Dublin and can heard on the Mark Masters label performed by the University of Texas Symphonic Band under the direction of Dennis Fisher.
Along with music, Markowski has studied film and media production and enjoys collaborating with filmmakers in the Phoenix area. One such collaboration lead to a suite performance by the Phoenix Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Maestro Robert Moody. A guilty pleasure, Michael has collaborated on two, short movie musicals including Hobos in Space and Conan: the Musical. In February 2008, Conan: the Musical was featured in a short bit on NBC’s Late Night with Conan O’Brien.
When he’s not writing music, Michael is co-producing local sketch comedy with his Bully Mammoth friends or is helping produce a local, free-distribution, fictional lifestyle magazine known as Laborliss.
Markowski is a member of ASCAP and currently lives in Tempe, Arizona.
dude thanks for telling me not to give up the horn lick is my solo lol. thank u so much lol. im 1st chair now lol. thank u man. 8. lol i reaaly appreciate it lol thanks
well i just finished practicing the lick. well ok we have to bands 1st and 2nd. im in the 1st. we only have 5 horns in the whole band and only 3 got picked to be in the first band. tiffany she doesnt know how the rythm goes and doesnt play at all. alison she plays and in the second measure she messes up and stops playing. and there is just me by the time the third measure comes. and you can barley hear me ( i cant play very loud...... i get nervous) so yea im the one that basicly plays. so thats why im asking for help. and i barley switched to horn like two weeks ago and i guess i can say im "good", well thats what everyone tells me. i jst cant the style to play it in, cant play that loud, and and do the accents, sticatto notes, and other crap. what can i do to get better???
Hi Michael! How are you? Just thought I'd drop by and let you know my album, Thinking of you, is online and available for purchase. If you get some time, please have a listen and let me know what you think. Take care and have a great weekend!
Yeah, no prob man. Your music is great btw. We played Shadow Rituals this year up in Frisco, TX. Great piece. It inspired me to enter the contest this year actually.
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