Martin Kutnowski

Martin Kutnowski is a composer and music theorist. His works are rooted in the tonal idiom, and references to the musical past are often embedded within folk materials. Disks and scores with Kutnowski's music are available on Contrapunctus, FJH Publications, Billaudot, Ricordi, and iTunes. His background music is also featured in shows such as MTV's "Room Raiders".
Kutnowski writes about tonal rhythm in Mozart and Scriabin, atonal voice leading in Peter Maxwell Davies, relationship between music and the moving image in popular culture—at the MTSNYS, the Schenker Symposium, The Fifth and Sixth International Music Theory Conferences in Tallinn, and Montreal Ed Media 2005. Articles by Kutnowski can be read in Latin American Music Review, Popular Music and Society, Musica Clasica (Buenos Aires, Argentina), MTO, and ex-tempore. Kutnowski has also given public lectures about music in the US, Canada, England, Spain, Mexico, Argentina, Estonia, Taiwan, and the People's Republic of China. He also writes about teaching and learning in post-secondary education, with articles in About Campus, Teaching Perspectives and Community College Journal.