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Mark Barden
American composer born in 1980 in Cleveland, Ohio.
Mark Barden was born in 1981 in Cleveland, OH (USA). He studied composition with Lewis Nielson and Randolph Coleman and piano with Monique Duphil at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, graduating in 2003. He spent a year abroad on a Thomas J. Watson fellowship before deciding to relocate permanently to Europe. From 2005 to 2007, he took private lessons with Rebecca Saunders in Berlin. With a grant from the Oscar und Vera Ritter-Stiftung, he undertook a masters in composition at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg under Mathias Spahlinger and Jörg Widmann, which he completed in 2011. In 2017, he received his doctorate in composition from Goldsmiths, University of London. His doctoral thesis, titled “Composing in and through the Body” was supervised by Roger Redgate.
He has received numerous awards and honors, including a scholarship prize to the Darmstadt Summer Academy, artist residencies from the Berlin Academy of the Arts, and the German Studies Center in Venice, the 2016 Composition Commission from the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts, and the Composers’ Prize from the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation.
His works have been performed by ensembles such as Klangforum Wien, Ensemble intercontemporain, Ensemble Recherche, the Mivos Quartet, KNM Berlin, and Ensemble Mosaik and at contempoary music festivals in Donaueschingen, Witten, Darmstadt, Paris, Berlin, and New York.
© Ircam-Centre Pompidou, 2017
Sources
Site du compositeur (voir les ressources documentaires).
- Solo (excluding voice)
- Unterdruck for prepared harp (2007), 9 mn
- elec die Haut Anderer for piano and optional video (2008), between 9 mn and 12 mn
- leggiero furioso for double bass (2009)
- puls for percussion (2012), 8 mn
- Études 1-3 for piano (2016), 10 mn
- Chamber music
- kairos incised for sextet (2007), 12 mn
- elec looking for a man to love & fuck installation-performance for seven instruments (2008), 2 mn 16 s
- gauze I for nine instruments (2009), 8 mn
- personæ for bass flute and bass clarinet (2009), 9 mn
- gauze II for nine instruments (2010), 15 mn
- viscera for string trio "basso" (2010), 7 mn
- Tenebræ for four modern and four early instruments (2011), 14 mn
- flesh|veil for eight instruments (2012), 13 mn
- witness. for electric guitar, saxophone, piano and percussion (2012), 15 mn
- Nocturne for string quartet (2013), 12 mn
- harvest for viola, cello, double bass and percussion (2013-2014), 12 mn
- elec viscosity for amplified string trio with volume pedals (2014), 15 mn
- Instrumental ensemble music
- elec ألم (Alam) installation for ensemble and electronics (2011), 12 mn
- a tearing of vision for chamber orchestra (2012), 10 mn
- — caul — for instrumental ensemble (2011-2012), 22 mn
- Monoliths I-V for optional instrumentation and electronics (2014), 10 mn
- elec aMass for amplified ensemble of 9 instruments (2015), 17 mn
- Gehören for chamber orchestra (2015)
- elec Monoliths I-III for large orchestra (flexible instrumentation) and electronics (2015), 6 mn
- elec Alam II installation for ensemble and electronics (2016), 15 mn
- Concertant music
- anatomy for large orchestra and percussion (2010), 8 mn 30 s
- A cappella vocal music
- Chamber for three male voices (2006-2007), 12 mn
- Electronic music / fixed media / mechanical musical instruments
- elec Dark Room electronic installation for a single listener (2015), 2 h
- Unspecified instrumentation
- 2016
- elec Alam II installation for ensemble and electronics, 15 mn
- Études 1-3 for piano, 10 mn
- 2015
- elec Dark Room electronic installation for a single listener, 2 h
- Gehören for chamber orchestra
- elec Monoliths I-III for large orchestra (flexible instrumentation) and electronics, 6 mn
- elec aMass for amplified ensemble of 9 instruments, 17 mn
- 2014
- Monoliths I-V for optional instrumentation and electronics, 10 mn
- harvest for viola, cello, double bass and percussion, 12 mn
- elec viscosity for amplified string trio with volume pedals, 15 mn
- 2013
- Nocturne for string quartet, 12 mn
- 2012
- a tearing of vision for chamber orchestra, 10 mn
- flesh|veil for eight instruments, 13 mn
- puls for percussion, 8 mn
- witness. for electric guitar, saxophone, piano and percussion, 15 mn
- — caul — for instrumental ensemble, 22 mn
- 2011
- Tenebræ for four modern and four early instruments, 14 mn
- machine for open instrumentation, 3 mn
- two masks for instrumentation of your choice, 10 mn
- elec ألم (Alam) installation for ensemble and electronics, 12 mn
- 2010
- 2009
- gauze I for nine instruments, 8 mn
- leggiero furioso for double bass
- personæ for bass flute and bass clarinet, 9 mn
- 2008
- elec die Haut Anderer for piano and optional video, between 9 mn and 12 mn
- elec looking for a man to love & fuck installation-performance for seven instruments, 2 mn 16 s
- 2007
- Chamber for three male voices, 12 mn
- Unterdruck for prepared harp, 9 mn
- kairos incised for sextet, 12 mn
Liens internet
- Site personnel du compositeur : www.mark-barden.com (lien vérifié en juin 2017).
Discographie
- Mark BARDEN, a tearing of vision ; Chamber; Alam; fleshveil; die Haut Anderer; Monoliths I-V, ensemble Intercontemporain, Cornelius Meister, Mark Barden, Stefan Maier, Max Murray, Klangforum Wien, Andreas Eberle, Nicolas Hodges, Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin, 1 cd Col Legno, 2016, WWE 40413.
- Mark BARDEN, viscera, Fathom String Trio (Jessica Rona, Moritz Müllenbach, Aleksander Gabrys), dans « Darmstadt Aural Document, Box 3 », avec des œuvres de Hanns Jelinek, Herbert Brün, Franco Evangelisti, … [et al.], 1 coffret [7 cd], Neos, 2016, 11230.
- Mark BARDEN, die Haut Anderer, Rei Nakamura, piano, dans « Darmstadt Aural Document, Box 4 » avec des œuvres de Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern, Stefan Wolpe, … [et al.], 1 coffret [7 cd], Neos, 2016, 11630.