December 2014
Mark's second collaboration with choreographer Eleesha Drennan premieres on the 5th and 6th December at the Dance House, Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff. The evening-long work features three extraordinary dancers with music by John Woolrich, Andy Scott, Xenakis, Graham Fitkin and newly composed work by Mark. The music will be performed live by
Julian Warburton and
Simon Haram. More details
here.
November 2014
The wonderful violinist
Thomas Gould will perform a showcase of new work from his new album
Bach to Parker at Nonclassical's first Global happening on November 26th featuring events from five different countries brought together in a secret East London venue. The set will include Mark's piece for violin and electronics
Lines written a few miles below. For more details and to book tickets visit
Nonclassical.
October 2014
Sound and Sweet Airs is a celebration of 20th and 21st century choral and instrumental music inspired by Shakespeare's poetry to mark the 450th anniversary of his birth. The programme combines the performing forces of Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra's new music ensemble Kokoro and the London-based chamber choir Canticum and features Mark's 2007 work
Stealing Poison alongside music by Oliver Knussen, Hywel Davies, Thomas Adès, Howard Skempton and Ralph Vaughan Williams. More details
here.
June 2014

The wonderful St Paul's Sinfonia continue to bring a fantastic programme of orchestral music to Greenwich and Lewisham. This year marks the orchestra's 10th birthday and as part of the celebrations they will perform Mark's 2008 orchestral work
Tirlun alongside Sibelius'
Pelleas et Melisande and Tchaikovsky's Symphony No 3. The concert is on Friday, June 20th 7.30pm at St Stephen's Church, Lewisham. More details
here.
April 2014
Mark is very excited to be working again with the choreographer Eleesha Drennan on a new project:
Channel Rose. Eleesha was recently awarded a Sky Academy Arts Scholarship in partnership with IdeasTap to support the project. The scholarship provides funding for artists to help develop their creative practice. Mark and Eleesha will begin collaborating later this year on the new piece. More details
here.
January 2014
Mark has been awarded a prestigious MacDowell Colony Fellowship. He will be in residence at the
MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire from late January until early March. During the residency Mark will be working on his new BBC Radio 3 commission for soprano, baritone, chorus and orchestra for the
BBC National Chorus and Orchestra of Wales. Mark has commissioned a new text on the theme of 'creation' from the poet
Owen Sheers with generous funding from the
Jerwood Charitable Foundation. The work will be premiered in 2015. Further details
here.