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Marc Yeats is a composer and visual artist. His intense music has been performed and commissioned around the world. He has worked with many distinguished performers, ensembles and musicians including Psappha, the London Sinfonietta, the Endymion Ensemble, Paragon Ensemble, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Hallé Orchestra, Tokyo City Philharmonic and Gewandhaus Radio Orchestra, among others with many broadcasts on BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio Scotland, European and US radio stations. Marc is Composer-in-Association with: Thumb Ensemble [Birmingham UK] Manchester Pride [Manchester UK] Chamber Cartel [Atlanta, Georgia US] SATSYMPH [Bristol/Crewkerne UK]
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- 1. This PDF biography and C.V. is hyperlinked to Marcs
WebsiteMarc Yeats is a composer and visual ar3st. His intense music
has been performed and commissioned around the world. He has worked
with many dis3nguished performers, ensembles and musicians
including Psappha, the London SinfonieAa, the Endymion Ensemble,
Paragon Ensemble, the ScoCsh Chamber Orchestra, the BBC
Philharmonic Orchestra, Hall Orchestra, Tokyo City Philharmonic and
Gewandhaus Radio Orchestra, among others with many broadcasts on
BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio Scotland, European and US radio sta3ons.Marc
is Composer-in-Associa4on with: Thumb Ensemble [Birmingham
UK]Manchester Pride [Manchester UK] Chamber Cartel [Atlanta,
Georgia US]SATSYMPH [Bristol/Crewkerne UK]Recent large music
commissions include: SATSYMPHs on a theme of Hermes; an original
work which fuses contemporary classical ensemble music and
contemporary poetry in an en3rely new and innova3ve way having a
truly unique method of delivery via smartphone apps, and
sturzstrom, a large choral work commissioned by Coastal Voices as
part of an umbrella project that explored the Jurassic Coast with
newly commissioned composi3ons linking music and earth sciences
through the voice. Performances included the premiere, 300 feet
underground in Beer Quarry Caves, Devon; Lighthouse Poole and the
opening ceremony of the Olympic sailing events in Weymouth and
Portland, Dorset in July 2012. Other commissions include a string
quartet for the Corsham Fes4val, black bile for Thumb Ensemble and
worship of the oak for Manchester Pride, a brass quintet for Alba
Brass, the shape distance for Chamber Cartel [US] and many other
commissions to be announced.
- 2. aboutLISTEN | Marcs musicINTERVIEWS | video
interviewsCATALOGUE | list of worksLINKS | links + partnersLatest
news and conrmed premieres 2013: June. Marc is Ar3st-in-Residence
at the Marburae Art Gallery, Maccelsed, Cheshire for summer 2013
with the premiere of two piano works in the Barnaby Fes4val
performed among the exhibi3on of his pain3ngs. Marc is proud to
announce he is now composer-in-associa3on with the Atlanta new
music ensemble Chamber Cartel more: Pianist Pierre-Arnaud Dablemont
announces his collabora3on with composer Marc Yeats for 2014 and
the recording of a signicant body of work. Read more here June.
Forthcoming premieres: pathos for solo cello, with Patrick Tapio
Johnson, Antara Fes3val London July rre for bass trombone and piano
performed by Dirk Amrein and Jrg Henneberger, Mahidol University,
Bangkok, Thailand August. An all Yeats lunch3me recital with
crowded rooms ensemble including Jenni Hogan (ute/piccolo) and Leo
Nicholson (piano) as part of Marcs Manchester Pride
composer-in-associa3on role at The Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall, The
Mar3n Harris Centre, Manchetser University as part of Manchester
Pride Classical Concert Series including playful geometry for
piccolo and piano, pathos for solo cello, a the^ of cold moisture
for solo ute, ENMA ELI for solo piano and mimesis for ute, cello
and piano September. As part of Marcs composer-in-associa4on
rela4onship with the US new music ensemble, Chamber Cartel will
premiere the en3re the shape distance [1-7] series in Atlanta,
Georgia. These works will also be studio recorded for Chamber
Cartels rst CD release Autumn. Premieres of logos concerto for
cello and 7 instrumentalists and adams grave clarinet quintet with
Patrick Tapio Johnson and friends, London, 2013 October. black root
for E at clarinet, Markus Wenninger, Krem, Austria Many more
premieres and commissions to be announced soon!
- 3. What others have said about Yeats work:Marc Yeats musical
voice is quite unlike anything else; the music is challenging to
both performers and audiences, and very communica3ve. He produces
extraordinary composi3ons that not only look and sound good, but
demonstrate a very high level of academic learning, while being
breathtakingly original. Sir Peter Maxwell DaviesClick HERE to
listen to Sir Peter Maxwell Davies in conversa8on about Marc Yeats
PAGAN II for orchestra before he conducted the work with the BBC
Philharmonic.Yeats instrumental roles are demanding, pushing every
player to extremes of agility. The intensi3es of expression are not
empty extravagances, however, but the comment of an expressionist
drama that exudes the passion and life-energy of their creator.
Piers HelliwellRefreshingly unfeAered in concept its something of a
tour de force Lynne Walker, The Independent on The Round and Square
Art of MemoryHe uses his orchestra resourcefully; fresh and
intriguing colours, but he uses his musical 3me even more
resourcefully, never allowing the ear to lose track of the changing
and evolving ideas. The Scotsman on The Round and Square Art of
MemoryYeats has a strikingly individual feel for the texture of an
orchestra, yet its never in all-purpose avant-garde alienated
tones. But this is the second fabulous piece Ive heard from this
emerging composer, and if theres more where that came from we have
a major new Bri3sh talent on our hands. David Fanning, The
Telegraph on The Round and Square Art of MemoryThat Yeats has
something to say in the wild shrieking music is beyond ques3on. He
hurls himself at the sound with an admirably pure and savage
impressionism. The Scotsman on The Anatomy of Air he unleashes
every shade on the paleAe, and con3nually pushes instruments,
textures and dynamics to extremes. The Herald on The Anatomy of
AirThe orchestral work I See Blue, is startlingly original in its
structure and orchestra3on, using brass and bass drum to unexpected
and powerful eect, with dazzling combina3ons of string and wind
colour. Sally Beamish
- 4. Marc Yeats is one of the most exci3ng composers I have
encountered in recent years. His ability to use maximum with all
3mbres of the instrument, whilst never sacricing the very heart of
the music, gives the musician many challenges which are exhilara3ng
to discover. Kathryn StoRThe sheer noise of the percussion sec3on
through which Kathryn StoA somehow managed to make the piano
audible set a new decibel level for this hall. Yet one felt an
original crea3ve mind at work, not just a bruiser but a maverick
with some kind of purpose. Michael Kennedy on The Round and Square
Art of Memory VOX review: Sarah WaAs, Park Lane Group Young Ar3st
Concerts, Purcell Room, South Bank Centre, London: VOX was
premiered by and wriAen for Sarah (WaAs), with the inten3on of
depic3ng as many voices as the instrument is capable of. In Sarahs
hands the instrument spat, grumbled, screamed and sang throughout.
Making use of the al3ssimo range of the instrument at every turn,
this has to be one of the most demanding yet eec3ve works in the
repertoire, both musically and technically. Sarah James, Clarinet
and Saxophone MagazineYeats is largely self-taught, though he has
received support and encouragement from Maxwell Davies ater
aAending his composi3on summer school on Hoy some years ago. He is
also a painter, and the possibility that the audio and visual
aspects of his crea3ve imagina3on are linked in some way should not
be ruled out. Yeats is an experimental composer in his own highly
individual manner, and this is reected in almost all his recent
scores. a wai4ng ghost in the blue sky was the most advanced music
on oer at this years Fes3val, yet the condence with which Yeats
deployed his material ensured a warm recep3on. John Warnsby Fes8val
Review: St Magnus Fes8val 16 21 June 2000Part of the Coastal Voices
Project in Dorset and east Devon, sturzstrom has no famous
par3cipants. Its a vocal work I stumbled across while reading the
blog 5against4.com and is one that expresses in the words of the
composer, Marc Yeats the forma3on and geology of the Jurassic coast
concentra3ng on the phenomina of landslips, mudslides and coastal
erosion. Im sure we can all agree its been a while since we heard
one of those. The piece was made using nothing but vocals from
community choirs and pebbles for percussion but it was no simple
aair. Geologists were oered crea3ve input, while not wan3ng to
limit the music to conven3onal nota3on Yeats created a variety of
signs and symbols for the vocalists to learn and interpret (looking
at the score feels more like a maths exam than a piece of music).
It certainly sounds dierent: the volley of shrieks and bellows have
a feral quality to them and create genuine excitment. At the same
3me, crescendos can disappear into whispers just as quickly. Tim
Jonze On Shue Experimental music | The Guardian | 30th June
2012Marc conduc*ng sturzstrom in the icci360 Arena, Olympic Opening
Ceremony, Weymouth and Portland, July 2012
- 5. Awards, Prizes, Commissions and Bursaries (selected)1994 Hoy
Summer School, SCO, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies aHendance bursary1994
ScoIsh Arts Council Summer School and Travel Bursary.1995 ScoIsh
Arts Council Composer Bursary.1995 ScoIsh Arts Council. AHendance
fees for the AssociaNon of BriNsh Orchestras Conference.1996 ScoIsh
Arts Council Composer Bursary.1997 ScoIsh Arts Council Composer
Bursary.1997 Commission St Magnus FesNval 25 minute orchestral
piece for the SCO1997 Hope ScoH Trust Composer Bursary (for 3
years).1997 ScoIsh Arts Council Commission for visual art Resound
project.1997 Prize winner Next Millennium InternaNonal Composers
Award, Japan.1999 The Arts Trust of Scotland travel expenses for
Italian performance.1999 Commission BBC 32 minute orchestral work
for the BBC Philharmonic and Kathryn StoH1999 Commission The London
SinfonieHa ensemble piece2001 Commission Kathryn StoH solo work for
saxophone2001 Five Islands Project Colour Songs: The NaNonal LoHery
Access and ParNcipaNon Scheme.2001 Commission Sarah WaHs solo
work2002 Commission Hebridean Music Workshops SAC loHery funds 40
minute ensemble work2002 Commission Hebridean Music Workshops SAC
loHery funds 5 watercolour painNngs2002 Commission ensemble piece
175 East, New Zealand2003 Commission Lonba, ArgenNna ensemble
piece2004 Commission An Tuireann SNllness in movement 60 ensemble
piece2004 HI~Arts ArNsts creaNve bursary2005 Commission Henri Bok
solo work2005 Commission RoHerdam Conservatorium orchestral
work2005 First prize internaNonal composing compeNNon, WBCC,
RoHerdam, Holland2006 GO EVENTS grant towards development of
website music download faciliNes2006 Hope ScoH Trust Funding
towards the producNon costs of the new CD opera Haar2007 Commission
ScoIsh Clarinet Quartet work for 4 bass clarinets and
percussion2007 Commission Symposia work for 4 instrumentalists and
digital sound-track2007 Commission SCAW new work for bass clarinet,
piano and electronic sound-track2007 Commission Trio IAMA new work
for ute, cello and piano2007 ScoIsh Arts Council Professional
Development Grant developing new dance music.2007 2009. An
extensive list of commissions specically referenced in Yeats music
biography.2008 Hall Orchestra with My Blood is as Red as Yours for
World Aids Day2009 Arts Council England Grants for the Arts
collaboraNve locomoNve GPS music/word fusion.2009 Kokoro
commission, shadow and the moon for sextet.2009 BBC commission.
rhema for harpsichord circa 10mins. In total.2010 Announced as
Composer-in-AssociaNon with Manchester Pride2010 1 of 5 shortlisted
composers with PRSF NMA (Turner Prize for music) with SATSYMPH2011
Commissioned work for ConsorNum5 recorder quintet for 2011 the bone
eaNng snot ower2011 New work crowded rooms for 14 instrumentalists
for Leeds University in March 20112011 New commissioned work for
silent lm with Ensemble Amorpha (amorpha_shorts) for 20112011
Commissioned work Eris for ute and viola Manchester Pride Music
FesNval 20112011 Commissioned work for massed choirs sturzstrom for
2012 Cultural Olympiad (Coastal Voices)2011 Commissioned work
SATSYMPH on a theme of Herms 2012 Worship of the oak [trio for
violin, cello and piano] -Manchester Pride FesNval commission 2012
ethos [solo trombone] Dirk Amrein 2012 the need re [string quartet]
Corsham FesNval commission 2012 sunergia [piano four hands]
commissioned by Music Orba Duo 2012 black bile [ensemble]
commissioned by Thumb Ensemble 2012 quarter sounds [solo bass
clarinet] commissioned by Sarah WaHs 2012 pathos [solo cello]
commissioned by Antara FesNval 2013 hyran [solo viola] commissioned
by Stephen Upshaw 2013 the shape distance series, set [1-7]
commissioned by Chamber Cartel 2013 black root [solo E at clarinet]
Markus Wenninger 2013 corpuscular theory of light [clarinet,
soprano saxophone, xylophone]
- 6. Membership and Alia4ons1993 1996 Member of the Skye and
Lochalsh Arts Council.1995 Member of the Performing Right
Society.1995 Member of Mechanical Copyright ProtecNon Society.1996
Nominated to full membership of the Composers Guild of Great
Britain.1996 2005 Board member for An Tuireann Arts Centre.1997
ArNsNc Director for Skye and Lochalsh New Music FesNval.1998 2000
Vice Chairman for An Tuireann Arts Centre.1998 2003 Member of the
BriNsh Academy of Composers and Songwriters.2000 2005 Chairman of
the Board of Directors, An Tuireann Arts Centre.2006 2007 Board
member HI~Arts2007 Advisor to the Board of An Tuireann Arts
Centre2009 Board member of PVA MediaLab, Bridport, Dorset2009 2012
Chair of PVA MediaLab, Bridport, Dorset2011 Chair of Reach Dorset
therapuNc arts acNviNes for people with mental health issues. 2012
- Chair DIVAcontemporary [arNst-led organisaNon commiHed to
creaNvity/experimentaNon in the artsthe shape distance [6] 24x28
inches oil on mounted board.You can email Marc through the CONTACT
pageTo view Marcs pain3ngs and drawings, please visit the
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