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Mark Dancigers |
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Composer and electric guitarist Mark Dancigers was born in Virginia Beach, Virginia in 1981. He earned a B.A. in music at Yale University in 2003 and a Masters degree at the Yale School of Music in 2005, where he studied with Martin Bresnick, Ezra Laderman, Kathryn Alexander, John Halle, and Matthew Suttor. He taught composition at Yale University for the fall semester of 2005. Mark is currently a graduate fellow at Princeton University. The New York Youth Symphony premiered his Snow in Carnegie Hall in 2006. The Cabrillo Festival Orchestra performed his Liquid Song in August 2006, and the Minnesota Orchestra read the same piece in May 2006. The Yale Philharmonia Orchestra premiered Liquid Song in March 2005. NOW Ensemble performed Cloudbank at the 2006 Carlsbad Festival and and Hanging There at the 2005 Look and Listen Festival in New York. Other performances of his work have been at the Music at the Anthology Festival, Merkin Hall, the Virginia Arts Festival, the Percussive Arts Society International Conference, and venues throughout New York, Boston, New Haven, and Philadelphia As an electric guitarist, he regularly performs with NOW Ensemble, a new music quintet dedicated to the music of emerging composers. With NOW Ensemble, he has performed at Merkin Hall, the Knitting Factory, the Julliard School, MIT, Cal Arts, and the Tenri Cultural Institute. This year, NOW Ensemble will have residencies and concerts at Yale University, Princeton University, and the University of Virginia. He has also performed at the Norfolk Contemporary Music Festival and the Bang on a Can Summer Institute. He records extensively with the sound designers Daniel Baker and Matthew Suttor for theater productions at the Yale Repertory Theater and throughout New York. Mark premiered Kathryn Alexander's electric guitar concerto, In The Purest Air, Sapphirine in
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