Michael Gatonska

The music of Michael Gatonska has been performed by the Minnesota Orchestra, the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra, the American Composers Orchestra, the Pacific Symphony, the Hartford Sympony, the Chicago Chamber Musicians, the LOCRIAN chamber players, and string quartet DAFO (Poland) among others. 

His music has been recorded on the Albany Records, Major Who Media, and Einstein Records labels.

He studied composition with Krzystof Penderecki, Marek Stachowski, and Zbigniew Bujarski at the Academy of Music in Krakow, Poland, and with Elias Tanenbaum at the Manhattan School of Music.  He has also been a professor on the Faculty of Music at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogota, Colombia.