Mark Bowden (composer)

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

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

Bowden has received several awards and prizes including the 2006 Royal Philharmonic Society Composition Prize.[7] Bowden was the first composer in residence at Handel House Museum [8] and, with fellow composers in the Camberwell Composers' Collective, was New Music Associate at Kettles Yard in Cambridge from 2008-2010. He was the 2011-2012 Music Fellow at Rambert Dance Company.

He is currently Resident Composer at BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Director of Composition at Royal Holloway, University of London.[9]

References

  1. ↑ "Creation - A new musical and poetic collaborative project for chorus, soloists and orchestra (Mark Bowden & Owen Sheers)". Indico. Retrieved 5 June 2014.
  2. ↑ http://www.royalphilharmonicsociety.org.uk/?page=youngArtists/biogs/youngartists06/bowden.html
  3. ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/hearandnow/pip/sbdi8/
  4. ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/hearandnow/pip/fkw35/
  5. ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/radioulster/soundsclassical/features195881.shtml
  6. ↑ Camberwell Composers' Collective website
  7. ↑ http://www.royalphilharmonicsociety.org.uk/?page=youngArtists/biogs/youngartists06/bowden.html.
  8. ↑ http://www.handelhouse.org/news-and-events/news-archive/news_39.html
  9. ↑ http://www.rhul.ac.uk/music/staff/MarkBowden.html

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