Mark Bowden (composer)

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Mark Bowden
Born1979 (age 43–44)
Wales, UK
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Website markbowden.net

Mark Bowden (born 1979, Wales) is a Welsh composer of classical music. [1]

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Biography

Bowden studied composition with Richard Steinitz at the University of Huddersfield before completing a master's degree at the Royal College of Music where he studied with Julian Anderson. [2] He has received commissions from the London Sinfonietta, [3] the BBC Symphony Orchestra, [4] the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, [5] the Ulster Orchestra, [6] and Welsh National Opera amongst others and his music has been broadcast by BBC Radio 3. With Anna Meredith and Emily Hall he created the Camberwell Composers' Collective. [7]

Bowden has received awards and prizes for his music including the Royal Philharmonic Society Composition Prize, [8] a British Composer Award, [9] and an Ivor Novello Awards nomination for his saxophone concerto Sapiens. [10]

Bowden was the first composer-in-residence at Handel House Museum [11] and, with fellow composers in the Camberwell Composers' Collective, was New Music Associate at Kettle's Yard in Cambridge from 2008-2010. He was the 2011–2012 Music Fellow at Rambert Dance Company.

Bowden was Resident Composer at BBC National Orchestra of Wales from 2011 to 2015 and Director of Composition at Royal Holloway, University of London from 2007-2022. [12] In 2017 the University of London awarded Bowden the title of Professor of Composition [13] and in 2022 he was appointed Professor of Music at the Royal College of Music. [14]

Selected works

Voices on the Air (2021) for chamber ensemble

Outside (2020) for orchestra

Sapiens (2018) for solo saxophone & ensemble

Three Interludes (2018) for orchestra

Five Memos (2015) for violin & piano

We Have Found a Better Land (2015) for chorus

Airs No Oceans Keep (2015) for piano trio

A Violence of Gifts (2014) for soprano, baritone, chorus & orchestra

Channel Rose (2014) for soprano saxophone & vibraphone

Beldam (2014) for solo percussion

Heartland (2012) for solo percussion & orchestra

Parable (2012) for solo saxophone

Lyra (2011) for solo cello & orchestra

Lines Written a Few Miles Below (2011) for solo violin & track

The Soul Candle (2008) for baritone and piano

Sudden Light (2004) for orchestra

Recordings

Taliesin’s Songbook

Flux

Sudden Light

Bach to Parker

Parable

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References

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  2. ↑ "Home". Royalphilharmonicsociety.org.uk.
  3. ↑ "Home". londonsinfonietta.org.uk. Retrieved 11 October 2022.
  4. ↑ "BBC - (none) - Hear And Now - 23 July 2005". Bbc.co.uk.
  5. ↑ "BBC - (none) - Hear And Now - 8 September 2007". Bbbc.co.uk.
  6. ↑ "BBC - Radio Ulster - Programmes". Bbc.co.uk.
  7. ↑ "Без названия". Camberwellcomposerscollective.tumblr.com.
  8. ↑ "Home". Royalphilharmonicsociety.org.uk. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
  9. ↑ "Archive | The Ivors Composer Awards". The Ivors Academy.
  10. ↑ "Home". ivorsacademy.com. 28 October 2019. Retrieved 11 October 2022.
  11. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 21 November 2008. Retrieved 2 September 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  12. ↑ "Mark Bowden". Archived from the original on 3 November 2009. Retrieved 9 September 2010.
  13. ↑ "Home". rhul.ac.uk. Retrieved 11 October 2022.
  14. ↑ "Home". rcm.ac.uk. Retrieved 11 October 2022.


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