On June 10th we will host a concert by the Barcelona Modern Ensemble, part of the International Composition Course organized every year by this Barcelona based group, with which we collaborate as teachers of content related to music technology and live electronic music.

This concert will be a monographic concert with music by Mark Andre, a French composer based in Berlin with an important catalog of music for instruments and electronics, who is also one of the composition teachers of the edition of the course of this year.

Retrat Mark Andre

S3 for piano and electronics (21’)

iv 12 for soprano saxophone (11’)

Als…II  for bass clarinet, cello, piano and electronics (21’)

Barcelona Modern Ensemble

Xavi Castillo, bass clarinet; Nacho Gascón, soprano saxophone; Carmen Kleykens, cello; Carolina Santiago and Francisco Martí, piano; Xavier Pagès-Corella, music director; Demian Luna, artistic director

Born in Paris in 1964, Mark Andre studied composition, counterpoint, harmony, analysis and music research at the Conservatoire National Supérieure de Musique de Paris (CNSMP), where his professors included Claude Ballif, Gérard Grisey and Helmut Lachenmann. In 1993, after studying at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris (Ulm) and at the Center d'Études Supérieures de la Renaissance (Tours), he received his doctorate in musicology with a thesis on "Le compossible musical de l 'Ars subtilior”. He completed an advanced degree ('Großes Kompositionsexamen') in composition with Helmut Lachenmann at the Musikhochschule in Stuttgart with a grant from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was awarded a scholarship to the Schloss Solitude Academy in Stuttgart from 1995 to 1996 and received a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) in 1996. The same year he received the Kranichstein music award for un-fini I and le lombo. et le profond of the Darmstadt Ferienkurse for New Music, where he also participated in a master class with Wolfgang Rihm. He obtained a residency in Germany from the Villa Medici-hors-les-murs. In 1997 Andre studied electronic music with André Richard in the experimental studio of the Heinrich Strobel Foundation, SWR (Freiburg). He won first prize at the Stuttgart International Composers' Competition for Le Trou noir universe (1992-93) for orchestra, vocalists and live electronics. He also received a scholarship from SWR and Baden-Baden City Council. Since 1997, Andre has been teaching counterpoint and orchestration at the Conservatoire National de Région in Strasbourg and at the Frankfurt Musikhochschule.

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