2024 Composer Festival featuring Michael Markowski
Sat, Mar 09
|San Marcos
The 15th annual composer features acclaimed American composer Michael Markowski. Mr. Markowski will spend a week in San Diego working with students performing his music with their school bands. Students get a once in a lifetime opportunity to work with a living composer on their music.
Time & Location
Mar 09, 2024, 9:00 AM – Mar 10, 2024, 7:00 PM
San Marcos, 1 Mission Hills Ct, San Marcos, CA 92069, USA
About the event
About Michael Markowski:
Michael Markowski (b. 1986) is fully qualified to watch movies and cartoons. In 2010, he graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in ‘Film Practices’ from Arizona State University. While Markowski never studied music in college, his primary music teachers have included Gary Larkins, Dawn Parker, Jon Gomez, Dr. Karl Schindler, and Michael Shapiro. He has continued this education by participating in a number of extracurricular programs, such as The Art of Orchestration with Steven Scott Smalley (2008), the National Band Association’s Young Composer and Conductor Mentorship Project (2008), and the NYU/ASCAP Foundation’s Film Scoring Workshop (2014) where he was named one of ASCAP’s Film & TV “Composers to Watch.” Mark Snow, composer of The X-Files and one of the workshop’s guest mentors, says Michael’s music was “extremely sophisticated” and “complimented the mood and emotion of the scene with unusual maturity and sensitivity.” Most…
