Mark Andre Explained

Mark Andre (born 10 May 1964)^[1] is a French composer living in Germany. He was known as "Marc André", his birth name, until 2007, when he formally revised the spelling.^[2] He lives in Berlin.^[3] Andre's compositions durch (2006), ...auf... III (2007), and Wunderzaichen (2014) received multiple votes in a 2017 Classic Voice poll of the greatest works of art music since 2000.^[4]

Biography

Born in Paris, Andre studied composition from 1987 to 1993 with Claude Ballif and Gérard Grisey at the Paris Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique, and graduated from the École Normale Supérieure with a thesis on the music of Ars subtilior (Le compossible musical de l'Ars subtilior). In 1995 he received a scholarship from the French Foreign Ministry, which enabled him to continue his composition studies at the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart with Helmut Lachenmann (Graduation: "Großes Kompositionsexamen", 1996). In the Experimental Studio for Acoustic Art he studied electronic music with André Richard. In 1996, he was able to continue his studies in Stuttgart by a grant from the Akademie Schloss Solitude. Numerous other scholarships and residencies followed. In 2007 his large orchestral and electronic triptych "...auf... III" was played at the Donaueschingen Festival, and received the prize of the SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden and Freiburg, since which public attention has been drawn to his work even more. But even before that Andre had earned numerous major awards, such as the Darmstadt Summer Courses (Kranichsteiner Music Prize 1996).

In 2002, he received the Ernst von Siemens Composer Prize.^[5] Living in Berlin, Andre taught at the Frankfurt University of Music and at the Conservatoire de Strasbourg (2002–2007). As part of the project "...auf ...", a collaboration between the Ensemble Modern and Siemens Arts Program, in cooperation with the Goethe Institute, Andre's piece "üg", was developed in Istanbul jointly with the computer music and sound engineer Joachim Haas (Experimentalstudio des SWR) and others, and was premiered in October 2008 at the Alte Oper in Frankfurt by the Ensemble Modern. In 2009 he was appointed a member of the Berlin Academy of Arts^[6] and professor of composition at the Hochschule für Musik in Dresden. Since 2010 he has been a member of the Saxon Academy of Arts, and from 2012 a Fellow of the Berlin Institute for Advanced Study and a member of the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. On 2 March 2014 his opera "Wunderzaichen" was premiered in Stuttgart directed by Jossi Wieler and Sergio Morabito.^[7]

Andre is well known on the continent, though his work does not have such a large profile in the predominantly English-speaking world. Referring to this, The Guardian noted "though Manchester International Festival director Alex Poots's claim that Mark Andre is "one of Europe's leading composers" is far-fetched, there is no doubt that Andre's music remains virtually unknown in the UK."^[8] ^[9]

Works

Andre's music is published by Edition Peters in Frankfurt am Main.^[10]

Ein Abgrund for bass-baritone, viola and violoncello based on Georg Büchner's drama "Woyzeck" (1992)
Un-Fini III (1993–1995) for piano
Le loin et le profond for Ensemble (1994–1996)
Fatal for Ensemble (1995)
AB II for double bass clarinet, cello, cymbalon, percussion, piano and live electronics (1996/1997)
Contrapunctus for piano (1998/1999)
Modell for four orchestra groups (1999/2000)
...22,13... Musiktheater-Passion in three parts (1999–2004)
...als... I for bass clarinet, cello and piano (2001)
...als... II for double bass clarinet, cello, piano and live electronics (2001)
...IN... for verstärkte bass clarinet (2001)
...zu... for string trio (2003/2004)
asche for ensemble (2005)
durch for saxophone, piano and percussion (2004/2005) – written for Trio Accanto
...hoc... (2006)
...auf... III (2007) for orchestra and live electronics
iv2 for cello solo (2007)
iv3 for clarinet solo (2007)
...es... for chamber ensemble (2008)
üg for orchestra and live electronics (2008)
hij for orchestra (2009)
Wunderzaichen an opera (2014)
über for clarinet, orchestra and live electronics (2015)
woher...wohin for orchestra (2015–2017)^[11]
...selig sind... for clarinet and electronics (2017–2018)^[12]
Vier Echographien (2016–2022)
rwḥ 1–4, for choirs, large ensemble and electronics (2019/22)^[13] ^[14]

Bibliography

Book: Tadday . Ulrich . Ulrich Tadday . Mark Andre, Musik-Konzepte 167 (edition text+kritik) . Richard Boorberg Verlag . München . 2015 . 978-3-86916-393-2 . de.

External links

Notes and References

Web site: 2018 . The Living Composers Project . www.composers21.com . 6 May 2018 . 29 April 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190429183421/http://composers21.com/compdocs/andrem.htm . live .
News: Schulz . Tom R. . 1 April 2010 . Ein Franzose, der deutsch sein möchte . . de . 9 May 2018 . 30 June 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180630054407/https://www.abendblatt.de/kultur-live/article107672703/Ein-Franzose-der-deutsch-sein-moechte.html . live .
News: Blech . Volker . 14 February 2019 . Komponist Mark Andre ist Geräuscheforscher . . Berlin . de . 5 November 2019.
Web site: A music referendum. Ricordi. 2 December 2019. 5 August 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200805141143/https://www.ricordi.com/-/media/Files/PDF/Ricordi/Background-Information/Classic-Voice-Survey.ashx?la=en-US&hash=BBAE5103837F8B1553A993DC4917C75FEBD7B63A. live.
Web site: Composers Prize Winners . evs-musikstiftung.de . Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung . de . 5 November 2019 . 6 July 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110706231818/http://www.evs-musikstiftung.ch/en/composers-grants-in-aid/archiv-foerderpreistraeger/ . live .
Web site: Mark Andre . adk.de . Akademie der Künste Berlin . de . 5 November 2019 . 19 August 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240819094711/https://www.adk.de/de/akademie/mitglieder/?we_objectID=55132 . live .
News: Spinola . Julia . 27 February 2014 . Das musikalische Jenseits . . Hamburg . de . 6 May 2018 . 28 June 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180628182050/https://www.zeit.de/2014/10/komponist-mark-andre . live .
News: Clements . Andrew . 12 July 2011 . Mark Andre – review . . London . 18 November 2017 . 1 December 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20171201044500/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/jul/12/mark-andre-manchester-review . live .
Ars musica: 20 ans d'aventures musicales – 2009 Page 162 "Du post-Boulez? La question est plutôt ailleurs: savoir comment, à partir de cette multiplicité affolante, composer son propre chemin. Certains jeunes compositeurs comme Enno Poppe ou Mark Andre apportent des solutions individuelles mais ...
Web site: Mark Andre, Edition Peters. www.edition-peters.de.
News: Stallknecht . Michael . 9 July 2017 . Woher der Wind kommt und wohin er fährt . . München . de . 6 May 2018 . 7 May 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180507003417/http://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/neue-musik-woher-der-wind-kommt-und-wohin-er-faehrt-1.3579701 . live .
News: Pieper . Stefan . 1 May 2018 . Rituale ohne Dogmen: Die 50. Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik . . Regensburg . de . 6 May 2018 . 19 August 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240819094714/https://www.nmz.de/kritik/oper-konzert/rituale-ohne-dogmen-die-50-wittener-tage-fuer-neue-kammermusik . live .
Web site: rwh 1-4 / Interviews . Ensemble Modern . 1 January 2022 . de . 1 August 2024.
Web site: Andre . Mark . Revolt in the silence: An interview with Mark Andre . Elbphilharmonie Mediatheque . 27 May 2022 . 1 August 2024 . 1 August 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240801071352/https://www.elbphilharmonie.de/en/mediatheque/revolt-in-the-silence-an-interview-with-mark-andre/722 . live .