Mark Bowden (composer)
{{short description|Welsh composer of classical music|bot=PearBOT 5}}
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| birth_place = Wales, UK
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| occupation = {{ubl| Composer | Professor of Music }}
| education = {{ubl | University of Huddersfield |Royal College of Music | Royal Holloway, University of London }}
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Mark Bowden (born 1979) is a Welsh composer of classical music.{{cite web|url=http://indico.cern.ch/event/274931/|title=Creation - A new musical and poetic collaborative project for chorus, soloists and orchestra (Mark Bowden & Owen Sheers)|work=Indico|accessdate=5 June 2014|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140606231718/http://indico.cern.ch/event/274931/|archivedate=6 June 2014}}
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.{{Cite web|url=https://royalphilharmonicsociety.org.uk/?page=youngArtists/biogs/youngartists06/bowden.html|title=Home|website=Royalphilharmonicsociety.org.uk}} He has received commissions from the London Sinfonietta,{{Cite web|url=https://londonsinfonietta.org.uk/whats-on/sapiens |title=Home|website=londonsinfonietta.org.uk |date=7 December 2018 |accessdate=11 October 2022}} the BBC Symphony Orchestra,{{Cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/hearandnow/pip/sbdi8/|title=BBC - (none) - Hear And Now - 23 July 2005|website=Bbc.co.uk}} the BBC National Orchestra of Wales,{{Cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/hearandnow/pip/fkw35/|title=BBC - (none) - Hear And Now - 8 September 2007|website=Bbbc.co.uk}} the Ulster Orchestra,{{Cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/radioulster/soundsclassical/features195881.shtml|title=BBC - Radio Ulster - Programmes|website=Bbc.co.uk}} 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.{{Cite web|url=https://camberwellcomposerscollective.tumblr.com/?og=1|title=Без названия|website=Camberwellcomposerscollective.tumblr.com}}
Bowden has received awards and prizes for his music including the Royal Philharmonic Society Composition Prize, {{Cite web|url=https://royalphilharmonicsociety.org.uk/?page=youngArtists/biogs/youngartists06/bowden.html|title=Home|website=Royalphilharmonicsociety.org.uk|accessdate=9 August 2020}} a British Composer Award, {{Cite web|url=https://ivorsacademy.com/awards/the-ivors-composer-awards/archive/|title=Archive | The Ivors Composer Awards|website=The Ivors Academy}} and an Ivor Novello Awards nomination for his saxophone concerto Sapiens.{{Cite web|url=https://ivorsacademy.com/news/the-ivors-composer-awards-2019-nominations-announced/|title=Home|website=ivorsacademy.com |date=28 October 2019 |accessdate=11 October 2022}}
Bowden was the first composer-in-residence at Handel House Museum {{cite web|url=http://www.handelhouse.org/news-and-events/news-archive/news_39.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2010-09-02 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081121234959/http://www.handelhouse.org./news-and-events/news-archive/news_39.html |archivedate=2008-11-21 }} 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.{{Cite web |url=http://www.rhul.ac.uk/music/staff/MarkBowden.html |title=Mark Bowden |access-date=9 September 2010 |archive-date=3 November 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091103210047/http://www.rhul.ac.uk/music/staff/MarkBowden.html |url-status=dead }} In 2017 the University of London awarded Bowden the title of Professor of Composition {{Cite web|url=https://pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/mark-bowden(928026b1-070b-4fd5-8008-694c6065908a).html |title=Home|website=rhul.ac.uk |accessdate=11 October 2022}} and in 2022 he was appointed Head of Postgraduate Programmes and Professor of Music at the Royal College of Music.{{Cite web|url=https://www.rcm.ac.uk/about/news/all/2022-06-15researchandpostgraduateappointments.aspx |title=Home|website=rcm.ac.uk |accessdate=11 October 2022}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.markbowden.net Official website]
- [http://composersedition.com/composers/markbowden Mark Bowdens works at Composers Edition]
- {{Twitter|name=MarkFBowden}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110907073142/http://www.camberwellcomposerscollective.com/ Camberwell Composers Collective website]
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Category:Welsh classical composers
Category:Welsh male classical composers
Category:21st-century British classical composers
Category:Alumni of the University of Huddersfield
Category:Alumni of the Royal College of Music
Category:People from Abertillery
Category:21st-century Welsh male musicians
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