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Composers BureauEdmund CionekBiography
 Edmund Cionek is a New York-based composer who writes for the concert hall and the theatre. His imaginative music is composed in a post-modern style that combines both pop and classical elements. Cionek's catalog includes symphonic, chamber, choral, solo, and theatre works. Strad Magazine called his chamber opera, SPACE: an Opera in Capsule Form "screamingly funny". David Finkle of the Village Voice called his choral cantata Ed Wood: The Sinister Urge "startlingly original." Tim Page of The New York Times described his chamber work, Ghost Rhapsodies, as "evocative". New York premieres of his music include Ghost Rhapsodies, by the League-ISCM Chamber Players, Morris Rosenzweig, conductor; Dream-Land with Christine Schadeberg, soprano and Jayn Rosenfeld, flute; Ed Wood: The Sinister Urge, as well as Missa Brevis, by The Accidentals and Percussion Symphony by The New Jersey Percussion Ensemble. Cionek is also an affiliate artist with the Bar Harbor (ME) Music Festival where several of his works have been premiered including Boogie-Woogie-Woogie (piano), and Whale-Tronica (sax quartet and electronic tape). He earned the degree DMA in Composition from the University of Michigan where his principal teachers were William Bolcom, George B. Wilson, and Eugene Kurtz. He also studied in Paris with Schoenberg disciple Max Deutsch at the Ecole Normale de Musique. In New York, he is co-artistic director of the New York Art Ensemble, a new music group that presents programs of contemporary classical music and helps promote the careers of young composers. Cionek teaches courses in American Music at New York University and Purchase College. Edmund Cionek's music is published by Studio Four/Alpheus and MMB Music, Inc. Recordings
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