Mark Barden worklist 2022 by Edition Peters

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Barden (b. 1980, Cleveland, Ohio, USA) studied composition with Lewis Nielson, Rebecca Saunders, Mathias Spahlinger, Jörg Widmann, and Roger Redgate. He holds degrees from the Oberlin Conservatory (USA), Hochschule für Musik Freiburg (Germany), and Goldsmiths (UK). He has given masterclasses and guest lectures at music conservatories in the US, Germany, Estonia, Austria, and England and joined the composition faculty at Fondation Royaumont for the Voix Nouvelles summer program in 2019. For his compositional work, he has received numerous international awards including a Composers’ Prize from the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation, the GEMA German Music Author’s Prize, a scholarship to the Darmstadt Summer Courses, residencies at the Berlin Academy of the Arts and the German Studies Center in Venice, as well as the sole annual Commission Prize from the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts in 2016. His works are regularly performed by leading musicians such as Klangforum Wien, Ensemble intercontemporain, ensemble recherche, the Mivos Quartet, KNM Berlin, Ensemble Mosaik, Nicolas Hodges, the Arditti Quartet, and many others at contemporary music festivals such as the Donaueschingen Festival, Wien Modern, and the Witten Festival. His first portrait CD is available on Col Legno (2016) and a second will be released on Wergo in 2020. His works are published by Edition Peters. Mark Barden lives in Berlin. 718 416

Mark Barden’s music understands sound as a fundamentally physical phenomenon. By emphasizing the violence of sound-making—with all its gripping, striking, and scraping—he invites the audience not just to listen, but to feel their own bodies listening and engaging with sound and, vicariously, with the musicians‘ bodies as their muscles and breath vibrate the air. Recent works marry virtuosic execution with noise-based sonic material, striving for an inward-turned complexity that, like microscopic views of cells or atoms, is both life-affirming and dizzying in detail.

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Mark Bardens Werke verstehen Klang als ein grundsätzlich physisches Phänomen. Indem er die Gewalt von Klangerzeugung betont—das Greifen, Schlagen und Kratzen—lädt er das Publikum ein, nicht nur zuzuhören, sondern den eigenen Leib wahrzunehmen, wie er zuhört und sich mit Klang und—empathisch—mit den Körpern der Musiker befasst, deren Muskeln und Atem die Luft zum Schwingen bringen. Neuere Stücke verbinden Virtuosität mit geräuschbasiertem und streben nach einer nach innen gewandten Komplexität, welche, ähnlich wie Mikroskop-Ansichten von Zellen oder Atomen, zugleich lebensbejahend und von einem schwindelerregenden Detailreichtum geprägt ist. Barden (geb. 1980, Cleveland, Ohio, USA) komponiert Konzertmusik und Klanginstallationen mit und ohne Live-Musiker. Er studierte Komposition bei Lewis Nielson, Rebecca Saunders, Mathias Spahlinger, Jörg Widmann, and Roger Redgate und hat akademische Abschlüsse vom Oberlin Conservatory (USA), der Hochschule für Musik Freiburg und Goldsmiths (UK). Er hielt Meisterkurse und Vorträge an Musikhochschulen in den USA, Deutschland, Estland, Österreich und England und war im Sommer 2019 Dozent in Komposition bei den Voix Nouvelles Ferienkursen an der Fondation Royaumont in Frankreich. Für sein kompositorisches Schaffen erhielt Barden zahlreiche Auszeichnungen, u. a. den Komponistenförderpreis der Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung, den Deutschen Musikautorenpreis von der GEMA, einen Stipendienpreis von den Internationalen Ferienkursen für Neue Musik Darmstadt, Aufenthaltstipendien von der Akademie der Künste Berlin und dem Deutschen Studienzentrum in Venedig sowie die einzige jährlich vergebene Auftragskomposition von der Bayerischen Akademie der schönen Künste in Seine2016.Arbeiten

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werden häufig von führenden Musikern wie Klangforum Wien, Ensemble intercontemporain, ensemble recherche, dem Mivos Quartett, KNM Berlin, Ensemble Mosaik, Nicolas Hodges, das Arditti Quartett u. v. a. bei Festivals wie den Donaueschinger Musiktagen, Wien Modern und den Wittener Tagen für neue Kammermusik aufgeführt. Seine erste PorträtCD erschien 2016 von Col Legno und eine zweite folgt 2020 auf Wergo. Seine Werke werden bei Edition Peters verlegt. Mark Barden lebt in Berlin.

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First performed 19 June 2011, Berlin, by Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin and Alex Klein (sound) EP 14428 aMass (2015) 18’ for amplified nonet metal music stand(3), pf, perc, e-gtr, vn, va, vc (Requires conductor and sound engineer.)

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First performed 20 October 2012, Donaueschingen (D), by Ensemble Nikel and Sébastian Naves (sound) EP 14426

First performed 17 October 2015, Donaueschingen (D), by Ensemble Mosaik and Daniel Plewe (sound), cond.: Enno Poppe EP 14424 flesh|veil (2012) 13’ for partially amplified octet 2 picc (both also alto fl), e-gtr, pno, vn, va (or vn2), vc(2)

Orchestra a tearing of vision (2012) 11’ for chamber orchestra 2(picc / afl).2(cl in A / bcl).2.2 - 2.2.2.1 - perc(3), hp, pf, str: 3.0.2.2.1 (db with 5 strings)

8-12 auxiliary musicians (non professionals) First performed 14 April 2020, Osnabrück (D), by the Bundesjugendorchester and students of the BBZ Stegen, cond.: Christoph Altstaedt EP 14484 Ensemble [Alam] I (2011) 12’ concert installation for ensemble and electronics cl in A (also cl in Bb) - cbcl - ssax (can be played by cbcl) - tba - perc - vn - va - vc - db - cellphones(5)

First performed 27 July 2012, Darmstadt (D), Darmstadt Summer Courses, by the Prizewinners’ Ensemble EP 14427 gauze I (2008) 8’ for ensemble fl, clar, sax, perc, pf, hp, vn, va, vc

First performed 08 April 2010, Berlin, by Zafraan Ensemble EP 14623 limina (2021) 41’ for e-guit,ensemblesax,synth, perc

First performed 11 May 2019, Witten (D), Witten Festival, by Ensemblekollektiv Berlin EP 14432 the weight of ash (2019/20) 21’ for 2(1=picc,orchestra2=picc).2(2=corA).2(2=bcl).2(2=cbsn) - 4.2.2.1 - perc(3), pf, e-guit, acc - 14.12.10.8.6

First performed 12 January 2013, Paris, Cité de la musique, by Ensemble intercontemporain, cond.: Cornelius Meister EP 14425 Monoliths VI–XV delta (2019) 22’ for chamber orchestra 2(fl/picc, fl/afl/picc).1.2(cl, bcl).0.tsax - 1.2.1.1. - perc(2), hrp, pf/synth - 3.0.2.2.0 (also 10-15 melodicas or harmonicas, 22 steel putty knives, 22 bows (any size), 44 claves)

First performed 27 November 2021, Vienna, Wien Modern, by Ensemble Nikel EP 14613 witness. (2012) 15’ for e-guitar, sopr. saxophone, percussion, piano and electronics

First performed 29 July 2010, Darmstadt (D), Darmstadt Summer Courses, by the Fathom Trio (Jessica Rona, va; Moritz Müllenbach, vc; Aleksander Gabryś, db) EP 14430 Études 1-3 (2016) 11’ for piano solo

First performed 27 July 2012, Darmstadt (D), by Preisträger-Ensemble EP 14427a Vocal Music Chamber (2006/07) 12’ for three (untrained) amplified (male) voices First performed 02 June 2010, Freiburg (D), by Nicholas Reed, Max Riefer and Alistair Zaldua EP 14456 Future Works Summer Distortion (2022) 18’ a recomposition of Vivaldi’s RV 315 for violin solo and ensemble violin solo, strings (min. 2.2.2.2.1), basso continuo (2-3 players) First performance October 2022, tba, by Göttinger Barockorchester EP 14668 August 2022

First performed 12 October 2017, Munich, by Séverine Ballon (vc) and Ashot Sarkissjan (vn) EP 14422 lamentoso (2016) 4’ for piccolo flute and bassoon

First performed 04 February 2017, Stuttgart, Eclat Festival, by Nicolas Hodges EP 14423 veil (2012) 4’ for piccolo flute duo

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First performed 04 February 2010, Freiburg (D), Hochschule für Musik, by Liz Hirst (fl) and Andrea Nagy (cl) EP 14431 viscera (2010/11) 7’ for string trio basso va - vc - db

First performed 26 November 2010, Freiburg (D), Hochschule für Musik, by Nicholas Reed (perc) and the Hochschulorchester Freiburg, cond.: Scott Sandmeier

Solo Concertos with Orchestra / Ensemble anatomy (2010) 10’ for solo percussion and large orchestra solo perc - 3(1&2 also picc, 3 also afl).3(3 eh).3(3 also bcl).3(3 cbsn) - 4.3(Bb).3(3 btb).1 - perc(2), hp, str: 12.10.8.6.4 (at least 2 db must have 5 strings or C-ext. on 4th string)

First performed 01 July 2016, Freiburg (D), by Ensemble Aventure EP 14472a Nocturne (2013) 15’ for string quartet

First performed 09 January 2013, Vienna, by Mivos Quartet EP 14648 personæ (2009) 10’ for bass flute and bass clarinet

EP 14429 Chamber Music cleft (2017) 23’ for violin and violoncello

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