Edmund Cionek

Edmund Cionek is a New York-based composer who writes for the theatre and the concert hall. His catalogue of orchestral, chamber, and vocal music reflects a deft blend of classical design, pop elements, and humor mixed in a post-modern style. A student of William Bolcom, he earned the degree DMA in Composition from the University of Michigan. Cionek also studied in Paris with Schoenberg disciple Max Deutsch at the École Normale de Musique. He has served on the Board of Directors of the League of Composers-ISCM, the New York Art Ensemble, and currently The Bar Harbor Music Festival. Edward B. Marks, Carlin America & EDITIONS Amsterdam publish his works. He is a member of ASCAP and AFM-Local 802. He was recently appointed to the College Music Society Music Composition National Advisory Board. He has received support from The National Endowment for the Arts, The International Institute of Education, ASCAP, Meet The Composer, the MacDowell Colony, the Maine Humanities Council, the Maine Arts Commission, and the North Carolina Council for the Arts. For many years Cionek has been Composer-in-Residence with the Bar Harbor (ME) Music Festival where he curates the Festival’s “New Composers Concert”, a platform for emerging talent.
His theatre works TRI-SCI-FI: a Chillogy (finalist in the 2003 Richard Rodgers Theatre Awards) and Attack of the 50 foot Walt Whitman have been performed at Mabou Mines, the FringefestivalNYC and The Tribeca New Music Festival.

Current musical projects include Emersonia, written for the Ensemble Tremblay, to be premiered at the 2012 Bar Harbor Music Festival. His new work for string orchestra, O Virtuous Light, will also be premiered at the 2012 Bar Harbor Festival by the resident String Orchestra conducted by Francis Fortier.

With his wife, Patti Wyss, Cionek creates arrangements and orchestrations for singers, pop orchestras and theatre productions around the United States. Performances this year include the New Jersey Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, and the Utah Pops. He teaches at New York University and Purchase College.