Michael Markowski

Michael Markowski is a twenty-first century composer who has written many award-winning pieces for band. Markowski is quite young, but he is gaining popularity rapidly because of his immense talents and beautiful works. My band performed perhaps one of his most famous pieces to date, Shadow Rituals, last year. This is the song my band recorded and submitted to the Iowa Band Masters Association last year in attempts to be selected as the High School Class 4A Band at the festival. To be selected is an extremely big deal and a great honor. My band was selected to perform at the festival last year, and one of our opening pieces was Shadow Rituals. This year, we are going to play City Trees, another popular piece written by Markowski. While Rituals is a very fast, upbeat tune, City Trees is much calmer and slower. I am looking forward to rehearsing this piece very much, and I cannot wait for Markowski to create more beautiful pieces of music.