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 master's 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 Royal Philharmonic Society Composition Prize [7] and a British Composer Award.[8] Bowden was the first composer-in-residence at Handel House Museum [9] 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.
He was Resident Composer at BBC National Orchestra of Wales from 2011 to 2015 and is Professor of Composition at Royal Holloway, University of London.[10]
References[]
- ^ "Creation - A new musical and poetic collaborative project for chorus, soloists and orchestra (Mark Bowden & Owen Sheers)". Indico. Archived from the original on 6 June 2014. Retrieved 5 June 2014.
- ^ "Home". Royalphilharmonicsociety.org.uk.
- ^ "BBC - (none) - Hear And Now - 23 July 2005". Bbc.co.uk.
- ^ "BBC - (none) - Hear And Now - 8 September 2007". Bbbc.co.uk.
- ^ "BBC - Radio Ulster - Programmes". Bbc.co.uk.
- ^ "Без названия". Camberwellcomposerscollective.tumblr.com.
- ^ "Home". Royalphilharmonicsociety.org.uk. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
- ^ "Archive | The Ivors Composer Awards". The Ivors Academy.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-11-21. Retrieved 2010-09-02.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ^ [1][dead link]
External links[]
- Official website
- Mark Bowdens works at Composers Edition
- MarkFBowden on Twitter
- Camberwell Composers Collective website
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