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Michael Gatonska
Michael Gatonska (b. November 17, 1967) studied composition with Krzystof Penderecki, Marek Stachowski, and Zbigniew Bujarski at the Academy of Music in Krakow, Poland. He also studied with Elias Tanenbaum at the Manhattan School of Music. His awards for composition include two ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Awards, an award in the 2005 Pacific Symphony American Composer Competition, selection for the 2005 American Composers Orchestra Underwood Readings, Honorable Mention in the Craig and Janet Swann Composition Competition 2005 for choral music, participation in two Minnesota Orchestra & Composer Institutes, and the Chicago Symphony First Hearing Award.
Recently, he received the 2005 Paul Underwood Commission to compose a work for the American Composers Orchestra, and the 2005 Creation of New Works Award from the Roberts Foundation to compose a work for the Hartford Symphony Orchestra which was premiered this past November. Other past commissions include writing works for SONYC (String Orchestra of New York City) and the Music at the Anthology Festival, the electric-cellist Jeffrey Krieger, and the Connecticut Commission on the Arts. He has also received a Civitella Ranieri Fellowship, grants from Meet the Composer, the American Music Center, two post-graduate research grants from the Kosciuszko Foundation for music composition studies in Poland, and he is a MacDowell Colony Fellow.
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