Martín Kutnowski

"Martin Kutnowski is a contemporary composer with firm roots in the tonal idiom. In his works, references to the musical past are often embedded within folk materials of his native country, Argentina. Disks and scores with his music are available on the independent label Contrapunctus, on FJH Publications, Editions Billaudot, and on Ricordi.

Kutnowski currently teaches at Saint Thomas University in Fredericton, New Brunswick. While in New York (1995-2005), he taught at The City University of New York; he also taught for several years at the Aspen Music Festival and School in Colorado (1997-1999) and Conservatorio Manuel de Falla in Buenos Aires (1991-1995). Kutnowski has been granted scholarships and prizes by the National Endowment for the Arts of Argentina, the Argentine Board of Education, the Fulbright Commission, the Archibald Mourier Foundation, the New Music Jewish Commission of Los Angeles, ASCAP, Arts New Brunswick, and North/South Consonance."

Biography taken from http://contrapunctus.com.