Mark Andre (Composer) 

Mark Andre, 1964 studied composition, counterpoint, harmony, analysis, and musical research at the Conservatoire National Supérieure de Musique de Paris (CNSMP), and composition at the Hochschule für Musik in Stuttgart. His teachers included Claude Ballif, Gérard Grisey and Helmut Lachenmann.
1994 After studying at the École Normale Supérieure, Paris (Ulm), and the Centre d´Études Supérieures de la Renaissance (Tours), he took a DEA (diplôme d´études approfondies) in musicology with a thesis on “Le compossible musical de l´Ars subtilior.”

1993 - 1996
-Advanced degree in composition with Helmut Lachenmann at the Stuttgart -Musikhochschule on a scholarship from French Foreign Ministry („Großes Kompositionsexamen“)

1996
- Fellowship at Schloss Solitude Academy
- Scholarship from German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
- Kranichstein Music Prize for un-fini I and le loin et le profond from the Darmstadt International Holiday Courses in New Music
- Master class with Wolfgang Rihm
- Resident in Germany as fellow of Villa Medici foreign student program
since 1997 Teaches counterpoint and orchestration at the Conservatoire National de Région de Strasbourg and Frankfurt Musikhochschule

1997
- Studied electronic music with André Richard at the Experimental Studio of the Heinrich Strobel Foundation, SWR (Freiburg)
- First prize at Stuttgart International Composers´ Competition for Le Trou noir univers (1992-3) for orchestra, vocalists and live electronics
- Scholarship from SWR and City of Baden-Baden

1998
-Tutor for composition at the Darmstadt Ferienkurse

1998 - 2000
-Fellowship at Villa Medici, Rome

2001
- Fellowship at Frankfurt Opera
- Composition prize from Frankfurt Opera for “... das O ...” (Part I of “...22,13...”), premiered by Ensemble Modern under Johannes Debus

2002
-Grant-in-Aid from Ernst von Siemens Foundation

2004
-“...22,13... “, a “music theater passion” in three parts written for the Munich Biennale and Mainz City Theater, premièred in Munich on 20 May 2004 (stage director: Georges Delnon); further performances in Munich, Mainz and Paris (Festival d´Automne at the Opéra Bastille)

2005
-Fellowship at DAAD Artist Program in Berlin.

2006
-Christoph and Stefan Kaske Composition Prize
- Tutor for composition at the Darmstadt Ferienkurse

2007
- Giga Hertz Production Prize for electronic music
- Orchestral prize from Donaueschingen Festival for “… auf …” III from SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg

2008
-Grant-in-aid from the Berlin Art Prize, Akademie der Orchester, Berlin

2009
- The cycle “…auf…” for large orchestra (2005-7), conceived as a triptych of three pieces capable of being performed and listened to separately although they form a unified whole.
- First complete performance in Berlin.
- Member of the ´Akademie der Künste Berlin´
- Mark Andre is appointed professor of composition at the ´Hochschule für Musik Dresden´

2010
- Tutor for composition at the Darmstadt Ferienkurse
- Tutor at the European Academy of the ´Festival d´Aix en Provence´
- Composer in Residence and tutor at the 21. Takefu International Music Festival
since 2010 Member of the ´Saxon Academy of the Arts´ (section music)

2011
-Order ´Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres´(Minister of Culture, France)

2012
-Composer in Residence in Salzburg (Mozartwoche)

2012
-Appointed full member of Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste

2012
-Composition prize from the Gerhart und Renate Baum-Stiftung

2012/2013
-Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin

Mark Andre has written works commissioned by the Ensemble Modern, ensemble recherche, Trio Accanto, Klangforum Wien, KNM Berlin, Les Percussions de Strasbourg, Ensemble Alternance, EIC, and others.

Mark Andre lives in Berlin.

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