Mark Andre

Mark Andre ( born May 10, 1964 in Paris ) is a French-German composer in the field of new music.

Life

Andre studied from 1987 to 1993, inter alia, composition with Claude Ballif, Gérard Grisey and at the Paris Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique. In Paris he also received his doctorate from the École Normale Supérieure about 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 studies of composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart with Helmut Lachenmann. 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.

Since then, Andre at the Donaueschingen Music Festival in 2007 for his composition ... on ... III that his ambitious Orchestertriptychon ... on ... concludes, was awarded the prize of the SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden -Baden and Freiburg, the public attention was even more drawn to his work. But even before Andre got numerous major awards, so at the Darmstadt Summer Courses ( Kranichsteiner Music Prize 1996). 2002 Award of the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize was awarded to him. Currently, Andre one of the most in-demand composers of new music. Living in Berlin Andre teaches at the Musikhochschule in Frankfurt and at the Conservatoire de Strasbourg. As part of the project "into ... ", a collaboration between the Ensemble Modern and Siemens Arts Program, in cooperation with the Goethe Institute, was Andres piece " üg " which together with the computer music and sound engineer Joachim Haas (EXPERIMENTAL des SWR ) among other things, was developed in Istanbul, premiered in October 2008 at the Alte Oper Frankfurt by the Ensemble Modern.

In 2009 he was appointed member of the Academy of Arts in Berlin and professor of composition at the Hochschule für Musik Dresden. Since 2010 he is member of the Saxon Academy of Arts. 2012: Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study Berlin and member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. He lives in Berlin. On March 2, 2014 his opera " Wunderzaichen " in Stuttgart was premiered, directed by Jossi Wieler and Sergio Morabito.

Music

Andres music is technically and associate of compositional history of the tradition of the Darmstadt school. From one of the most important "Darmstadt representatives ", Helmut Lachenmann, the Darmstadt summer courses significantly helped to shape as a composer, Andre was also so strong impetus for his own work. On the other hand, can be found in Andres compositions always live electronic sound means, as he at IRCAM in Paris and at the Experimental Studio of the Heinrich Strobel Foundation of SWR in Freiburg / Br. met. Content speak his works often existential or metaphysical topics, such as the idea of the resurrection of Christ in the three -part cycle ... on .... Fragmentary titles such as ... 22,13 ..., ... to ... and ... as ... refer to the Book of Revelation.

Works (selection)

An abyss for bass-baritone, viola and cello by Georg Büchner's " 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 bass clarinet, cello, cimbalom, percussion, piano and live electronics (1996/1997)
Contrapunctus for piano (1998/1999)
Model for four orchestral groups (1999/2000)
22:13 ... ... musical theater passion in three parts ( 1999-2004)
... as ... I for bass clarinet, cello and piano (2001)
As ... ... II for bass clarinet, cello, piano and live electronics (2001)
IN ... ... for amplified bass clarinet (2001)
... to ... ' for String Trio (2003/2004)
Ash for ensemble (2005)
By for ensemble (2005/2006)
Hoc ... ... (2006)
On ... ... III (2007) for orchestra
Iv2 for solo cello (2007)
Iv3 for clarinet solo ( 2007)
It ... ... for chamber ensemble (2008)
üg for orchestra and live electronics (2008)
Hij for Orchestra ( 2009)
Hij2 for choir and live electronics (2012 )
Choreographic Concert: Folded, Director: Sasha Waltz, UA: Mozart Week in Salzburg, 2012 (2012 )
E for cello
E2 for Cello and Double Bass
AZ for ensemble
Wunderzaichen (Music Theatre), UA: Opera Stuttgart, March 2, 2014.

Writings

Computer-assisted Musical Composition and Creation of a compositional model. In: Claus -Steffen Mahnkopf (ed.): The Foundations of Contempary composing. ( = New Music and Aesthetics in the 21st Century, 3 ) Hofheim 2004, pp. 159-164.
Concerning the Morphology of the Constituent Materials of " ... IN ...", for Amplified Bass Clarinet. In: Claus -Steffen Mahnkopf, Frank Cox, Wolfram Schurig (ed.): Musical Morphology. ( = New Music and Aesthetics in the 21st Century, 2 ) Hofheim 2004, pp. 22-33.
... from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south ... (for Helmut 's 70th birthday). In: Hans -Peter Jahn (ed. ): on (-) and listen. 14 essayistic reflections on the music and the person Helmut Lachenmann. Hofheim 2005, pp. 196-209.

Writings on Mark Andre

Luca Conti: ( De ) construction and (de ) fragmentation in AB II by Mark André. In music and aesthetics 4 (2000), H. 13, pp. 67-79. ISBN 3-608-98587-5.
Jörn Peter Hiekel: People Articles Andre, Mark. In: Music Past and Present: General Encyclopedia of Music, 2nd, revised edition, ed Ludwig Finscher, Supplement, Kassel / Stuttgart: Barenreiter / Metzler 2008, Sp 14-16. ISBN 978-3-7618-1139-9.
Ralph Paland: Mark Andre ( Biogramm, the work's text and essay / Examples and Documentation / Auswahldiskographie and bibliography ). In: Composers of the present ( KDG), 43 subsequent delivery (11/ 2010), Munich 2010, 14 5 5 pages. ISBN 978-3-86916-010-8.

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