About

Chester Jankowski is a composer, musician, and technologist based in New York. He earned a doctorate in composition at the University of Toronto in 1998. His music has been performed by leading virtuosi and new music groups including Array Music, Millennium, pianists Eve Egoyan, and Stephen Clarke, violinists Scott St. John, and Marc Sabat, and many others, with broadcasts on CBC’s Two New Hours and The Arts Tonight. In addition to concert music, he has composed for film, television, radio plays and podcasts, and has co-written with John Legend.

Jankowski has studied with Lothar Klein and Gustav Ciamaga at the University of Toronto; with Linda Catlin Smith at the Array Music Young Composers’ Workshop; with James Tenney at “Meta Composition: The Composer and The Computer”, a workshop focused on Max ; with John Weinzweig and Gary Kulesha at the inaugural Composer’s Workshop, Academy of Advanced Study at the Festival of the Sound; with George Tsontakis at Aspen; with Alexina Louie, Sydney Hodkinson, Peter Paul Koprowski, Jack Behrens, and David Myska at the University of Western Ontario.

In 1997, Jankowski was the recipient of the Sir Ernest MacMillan Foundation composition award, one of Canada’s most prestigious national awards for composers under the age of 30. Since 1997, Jankowski has lived in New York City. He is currently at work composing chamber, orchestral and electroacoustic music. His recent music theory work involves applying the techniques of post-tonal analysis and diatonic set theory to the study of jazz guitar improvisation.