- Mark Bowden (composer)
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Mark Bowden (born 1979) is a British composer of classical music.
Bowden studied composition with Richard Steinitz at the University of Huddersfield[1]before completing a Masters degree at the Royal College of Music[2] where he studied with Julian Anderson [3] He has received commissions from the BBC Symphony Orchestra,[4] the BBC National Orchestra of Wales,[5] the Ulster Orchestra,[6] amongst others and his music has been broadcast by BBC Radio 3. With Anna Meredith and Emily Hall he created the Camberwell Composers Collective.[7]
Bowden has received several awards and prizes including the 2006 Royal Philharmonic Society Composition Prize [8] Bowden was the first composer in residence at Handel House Museum [9] and, with fellow composers in the Camberwell Composers Collective, was New Music Associate at Kettles Yard in Cambridge from 2008-2010 .[10]
He is currently Director of Composition at Royal Holloway, University of London.[11]
References
- ^ http://www.royalphilharmonicsociety.org.uk/?page=youngArtists/biogs/youngartists06/bowden.html
- ^ http://www.royalphilharmonicsociety.org.uk/?page=youngArtists/biogs/youngartists06/bowden.html
- ^ http://www.royalphilharmonicsociety.org.uk/?page=youngArtists/biogs/youngartists06/bowden.html
- ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/hearandnow/pip/sbdi8/
- ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/hearandnow/pip/fkw35/
- ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/radioulster/soundsclassical/features195881.shtml
- ^ [http://www.camberwellcomposerscollective.com
- ^ http://www.royalphilharmonicsociety.org.uk/?page=youngArtists/biogs/youngartists06/bowden.html.
- ^ http://www.handelhouse.org/news-and-events/news-archive/news_39.html
- ^ http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/news/dp/2007111509
- ^ http://www.rhul.ac.uk/music/staff/MarkBowden.html
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