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Dr. Mark Nowakowski is an Associate Professor of Music at Kent State University, Stark, where he teaches courses in music technology, production, and composition. He is an active composer whose works have been performed internationally by ensembles and performers such as the Kronos Quartet, the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, the Silesian Quartet, Three Notch’d Road, Composers Inc, cellist Jeffrey Zeigler, the Cleveland Chamber Choir, and others. 

He has served as composer-in-residence for His Majesty’s Men. His debut album on Naxos – Blood, Forgotten– was praised by Gramophone Magazine for its “intense emotional worlds” with “writing that is at once fierce, haunting, and mystical.”  His sophomore effort, Metanoia, reached #1 on Amazon’s new classical list, an accomplishment duplicated by his 2026 Album The Seven Last Words of Christ. Nowakowski has also worked in documentary film scoring, including Discovering Tolkien, Patrick Ney’s Covenant of Blood: The Last Soldiers of World War 2 and 947 Days in Auschwitz, and the popular Catholic documentary trilogy Mass of the Ages. 

Nowakowski’s music technology writing and music commentaries have been published in Sound on Soundmagazine, the Washington Times Communities, Sacred Music Journal, and newmusicbox.org; he also contributed to “Composing for the Screen” (Hallgren, Focal Press). 

Nowakowski received his Doctorate of Musical Arts degree from the University of Maryland, where he also won the biennial Walsum Award for Excellence in Music Composition. He also holds degrees from the Cleveland Institute of Music, the University of Colorado at Boulder, and Illinois State University.