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André, Mark (b. 1964, Paris). French composer of mostly chamber works that have been performed throughout Europe.
Mr. André finished his studies at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris in 1992, where he earned six premier prix. He earned his PhD under the supervision of Olivier Boulnois and Philippe Vendrix at the École Normale de Paris (Ulm-Jourdan) and the Centre d'Études Supérieures de la Renaissance de Tours in 1993. He studied with Helmut Lachenmann at the Musikhochschule Stuttgart from 1994-97 and attended Darmstadt in 1996, where he studied with Paul-Heinz Dittrich and Wolfgang Rihm.
His honors include a residency at the Akademie Schloss Solitude (1995-96), First Prize in a harpsichord competition in Winterthur (1996, for Un-Fini II), the Kompositionspreis from the city of Stuttgart (1996, for Le trou noir univers), and the Blaue Brücke Preis (1996, for Fatal). Other honors include a residency at the Villa Médicis-hors-les-murs in Germany (1996), the Kranichsteiner Musikpreis at Darmstadt (1996), a residency at the Experimentalstudio of the Heinrich-Strobel-Stiftung (1997), and the title of Meisterschüler at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin (1997). His most recent honors are the Baldreit-Preis in Baden-Baden (1998), a year as composer-in-residence to the ensemble Champ d'Action (1999-2000), a residency at the Villa Medici in Rome (1999-2001), the Internationaler Kompositionspreis of the Oper Frankfurt am Main (2001), and the Förderpreis der Siemens-Stiftung (2002).
He has received commissions from many ensembles, festivals and organizations, including the Arditti String Quartet, the Biennale München, Champ d'Action, Darmstadt, the ensemble 2e2m, Donaueschingen, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Recherche, Ensemble SurPlus, the Festival d'Automne, Festival Présences, Les Percussions de Strasbourg, Radio France, SWR, and ZKM.
He taught at Darmstadt in 1998, at the Musikhochschule Frankfurt am Main in 2001 and at the Conservatoire National de Région de Strasbourg in 2002.
CONTACT INFORMATION
E-mail address: xyzmarkandre@hotmail.com
COMPLETE LIST OF WORKS
STAGE: ...22, 13... (music theatre work, text by the composer, after the Bible [translated by Martin Luther, the Church of Sweden]), 2 sopranos, 5 altos, 2 bass clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 trombones, 2 harps, 2 pianos, 2 celli, 2 double basses, 4 percussion, live electronics, 2001-04
ORCHESTRAL: Le trou noir univers, oboe (+ English horn), harp, guitar, mandolin, balalaika, violin, harpsichord, small orchestra (30 players), live electronics, 1992-93; Modell, 5 orchestral groups (69 total players), 1999-2000
CHAMBER MUSIC: Fatal, contrabass clarinet, contrabass tuba, prepared harp, cimbalom, 5-string double bass, prepared piano, baroque harpsichord, 2 percussion, 1995; Un-Fini, harp, cimbalom, 2 pianos, 2 percussion, 1995-96; AB I, contrabass clarinet, cello, piano, 2 percussion, 1996; AB II, contrabass clarinet, cimbalom, cello, piano, 2 percussion, live electronics, 1996-97; Tempus perfectum, 6 percussion, 1998; Kanon, contrabass clarinet, double bass, piano, 2000; ...als... I, bass clarinet, cello, piano, 2001; ...als... II, bass clarinet, cello, piano, live electronics, 2001; ...in..., bass clarinet, 2002
VOCAL: Ein Abgrund (text by Georg Büchner), baritone, viola, cello, 1992; Contrat-Etüde, voice, bassoon, cello/double bass, 2001
PIANO: Un-Fini IIIA, 1993-95; Contrapunctus, 1998-99
HARPSICHORD: Un-Fini II, 1994-95
DISCOGRAPHY
Ein Abgrund. Ensemble SurPlus (Solitude: 70)
Un-Fini. Jürg Wyttenbach/Ensemble Modern (Col Legno: WWE 20008)
AB II. ensemble recherche (Col Legno: WWE 20025)
Un-Fini IIIA. Eric Huebner, piano (Col Legno: WWE 20055)
Modell. Lothar Zagrosek/SWR-Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg (Col Legno: WWE 20201)
(Last updated on April 22, 2004)
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