Mark Andre

Mark Andre (born 10 May 1964){{cite web |date=2018 |title=The Living Composers Project |url=http://www.composers21.com/compdocs/andrem.htm |work=www.composers21.com |access-date=6 May 2018 |archive-date=29 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190429183421/http://composers21.com/compdocs/andrem.htm |url-status=live }} is a French composer living in Germany. He was known as "Marc André", his birth name, until 2007, when he formally revised the spelling.{{cite news |last=Schulz |first=Tom R. |date=1 April 2010 |title=Ein Franzose, der deutsch sein möchte |url=https://www.abendblatt.de/kultur-live/article107672703/Ein-Franzose-der-deutsch-sein-moechte.html |work=Hamburger Abendblatt |language=de |access-date=9 May 2018 |archive-date=30 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180630054407/https://www.abendblatt.de/kultur-live/article107672703/Ein-Franzose-der-deutsch-sein-moechte.html |url-status=live }} He lives in Berlin.{{cite news |last=Blech |first=Volker |date=14 February 2019 |title=Komponist Mark Andre ist Geräuscheforscher |url=https://www.morgenpost.de/kultur/article216436469/Komponist-Mark-Andre-ist-Geraeusche-Forscher.html |work=Berliner Morgenpost |location=Berlin |language=de |access-date=5 November 2019}} 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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ricordi.com/-/media/Files/PDF/Ricordi/Background-Information/Classic-Voice-Survey.ashx?la=en-US&hash=BBAE5103837F8B1553A993DC4917C75FEBD7B63A|title=A music referendum|website=Ricordi|access-date=2 December 2019|archive-date=5 August 2020|archive-url=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|url-status=live}}

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.{{cite web |url=https://www.evs-musikstiftung.ch/en/prize/prize/archive/composers-prize-winners.html |title=Composers Prize Winners |website=evs-musikstiftung.de |publisher=Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung |language=de |access-date=5 November 2019 |archive-date=6 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706231818/http://www.evs-musikstiftung.ch/en/composers-grants-in-aid/archiv-foerderpreistraeger/ |url-status=live }} 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{{cite web |url=https://www.adk.de/de/akademie/mitglieder/?we_objectID=55132 |title=Mark Andre |website=adk.de |publisher=Akademie der Künste Berlin |language=de |access-date=5 November 2019 |archive-date=19 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240819094711/https://www.adk.de/de/akademie/mitglieder/?we_objectID=55132 |url-status=live }} and professor of composition at the Hochschule für Musik in Dresden. Since 2010 he has been a member of the Saxon Academy of Arts,{{cite web | title=Mark Andre | website=SAK | url=https://www.sadk.de/mitglieder/klasse-musik/andre-mark | language=de | access-date=4 April 2025}} and from 2012 a Fellow of the Berlin Institute for Advanced Study{{cite web | title=Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin: Mark Andre | website=Mark Andre | url=https://www.wiko-berlin.de/fellows/akademisches-jahr/2012/andre-mark | language=de | access-date=4 April 2025}} and a member of the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich.{{cite web | title=Mark Andre | website=Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste | url=https://www.badsk.de/bayerische-akademie-der-sch%C3%B6nen-k%C3%BCnste/mitglieder/mark-andre | language=de | access-date=4 April 2025}} On 2 March 2014 his opera "Wunderzaichen" was premiered in Stuttgart directed by Jossi Wieler and Sergio Morabito.{{cite news |last=Spinola |first=Julia |date=27 February 2014 |title=Das musikalische Jenseits |url=https://www.zeit.de/2014/10/komponist-mark-andre |work=Die Zeit |location=Hamburg |language=de |access-date=6 May 2018 |archive-date=28 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180628182050/https://www.zeit.de/2014/10/komponist-mark-andre |url-status=live }}

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."{{cite news |last=Clements |first=Andrew |date=12 July 2011 |title=Mark Andre – review |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/jul/12/mark-andre-manchester-review |work=The Guardian |location=London |access-date=18 November 2017 |archive-date=1 December 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201044500/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/jul/12/mark-andre-manchester-review |url-status=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 ...

Works

Andre's music is published by Edition Peters in Frankfurt am Main.{{cite web | title=Mark Andre | website=Wise Music Classical | date=20 May 2004 | url=https://www.wisemusicclassical.com/composer/5626/Mark-Andre/ | access-date=22 October 2024}}

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){{cite news |last=Stallknecht |first=Michael |date=9 July 2017 |title=Woher der Wind kommt und wohin er fährt |url=http://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/neue-musik-woher-der-wind-kommt-und-wohin-er-faehrt-1.3579701 |work=Süddeutsche Zeitung |location=München |language=de |access-date=6 May 2018 |archive-date=7 May 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180507003417/http://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/neue-musik-woher-der-wind-kommt-und-wohin-er-faehrt-1.3579701 |url-status=live }}
...selig sind... for clarinet and electronics (2017–2018){{cite news |last=Pieper |first=Stefan |date=1 May 2018 |title=Rituale ohne Dogmen: Die 50. Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik |url=https://www.nmz.de/online/rituale-ohne-dogmen-die-50-wittener-tage-fuer-neue-kammermusik |work=neue musikzeitung |location=Regensburg |language=de |access-date=6 May 2018 |archive-date=19 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240819094714/https://www.nmz.de/kritik/oper-konzert/rituale-ohne-dogmen-die-50-wittener-tage-fuer-neue-kammermusik |url-status=live }}
Vier Echographien (2016–2022)
rwḥ 1–4, for choirs, large ensemble and electronics (2019/22){{cite web | title=rwh 1-4 / Interviews | website=Ensemble Modern | date=1 January 2022 | url=https://www.ensemble-modern.com/de/medien/interviews/2022-01-01/rwh-1-4-stephan-buchberger-im-gespraech-mit-mark-andre | language=de | access-date=1 August 2024}}{{cite web | last=Andre | first=Mark | title=Revolt in the silence: An interview with Mark Andre | website=Elbphilharmonie Mediatheque | date=27 May 2022 | url=https://www.elbphilharmonie.de/en/mediatheque/revolt-in-the-silence-an-interview-with-mark-andre/722 | access-date=1 August 2024 | archive-date=1 August 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240801071352/https://www.elbphilharmonie.de/en/mediatheque/revolt-in-the-silence-an-interview-with-mark-andre/722 | url-status=live }}
Im Entschwinden, for large orchestra (2022){{cite web | title=Im Entschwinden | website=IRCAM Ressources | date=12 March 2023 | url=https://brahms.ircam.fr/en/works/work/59768 | language=fr | access-date=4 April 2025}}
...selig ist..., for piano and electronics (2023–2024){{cite web | last=Brown | first=Jeffrey Arlo | title=The Exquisite Fragility of Mark Andre's Music | website=The New York Times | date=17 October 2024 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/17/arts/music/mark-andre-music-selig-ist.html | access-date=22 October 2024}}{{cite web | last=Thaler | first=Lotte | title=Donaueschinger Musiktage suchen „ästhetische Öffnung“ | website=FAZ.NET | date=22 October 2024 | url=https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/buehne-und-konzert/donaueschinger-musiktage-suchen-aesthetische-oeffnung-110060515.html | language=de | access-date=22 October 2024}}{{cite web | last=Frei | first=Marco | title=Musiktage Donaueschingen: zwischen blossem Experiment und grosser Kunst | website=Neue Zürcher Zeitung | date=22 October 2024 | url=https://www.nzz.ch/feuilleton/musiktage-donaueschingen-aus-spielerei-allein-erwaechst-keine-grosse-kunst-ld.1853739 | language=de | access-date=22 October 2024}}

References

Bibliography

{{cite book |editor-last=Tadday |editor-first=Ulrich |editor-link=Ulrich Tadday |title=Mark Andre, Musik-Konzepte 167 (edition text+kritik) |url=https://www.etk-muenchen.de/search/Details.aspx?ISBN=9783869163932 |publisher=Richard Boorberg Verlag |location=München |date=2015 |isbn=978-3-86916-393-2 |language=de}}

External links

[http://www.composers21.com/compdocs/andrem.htm Mark Andre at the Living Composers Project]
[https://www.editionpeters.com/composer/andre-mark/w00101 Mark Andre at the Edition Peters]

Category:French composers

Category:French male composers

Category:French expatriates in Germany

Category:1964 births

Category:Living people

Category:Composers from Paris

Category:Pupils of Gérard Grisey

Category:Members of the Academy of Arts, Berlin