From innovative works for the concert hall to background production music heard on television and radio around the world to the creation of experimental video pieces with electronic music, Steve's talent and diversity extends to many aspects of the musical and audio-visual worlds.

He draws his inspiration from conceptual music theory and the natural sciences while preserving an intellectual, compelling and simultaneously evocative and emotional impact with his music.

STEVE'S STORY

Kornicki’s ability to integrate diverse musical elements into his own unique and personal vision has led him to his current practice of composing accessible music based on numerical processes.  His concert music since 2005 has been based exclusively on these processes consisting of contrapuntal textures of non-melodic lines and structures built from sustained tones and repeated single note patterns with an underlying tonal or modal harmonic foundation. The resulting music, no matter how conceptual or process oriented, always maintains a continuous sense of drama.

Steve Kornicki's philosophy is to dissolve borders between politically defined genres of music and embrace all forms as equally relevant to the modern composer.

From 2000-2003, he lived and worked in Los Angeles, composing for media corporations and working closely with musicians at California State University Long Beach. He has written concert music for orchestra and chamber ensembles, music for electronic media and pieces for music libraries, video, film, dance and theater productions. He studied composition & music theory with Jeffrey Mumford (himself a student of Elliott Carter) and guitar performance with William Peters at the Settlement Music School in Philadelphia, PA. Read more . . .