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Mark Engebretson (b. 1964) is Professor of Composition and Electronic Music at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He is the recipient of a Barlow General Commission (for Bent Frequency Duo), North Carolina Artist Fellowship in Composition (for the Concerto for Soprano Saxophone and Orchestra), a Fulbright Fellowship for studies in France, and has received commissions from Harvard University’s Fromm Music Foundation (Acrylic Waves), the University of Wisconsin-Madison (They Said: sinister resonance), the Thomas S. Kenan Center for the Arts (Deliriade), and the Chicago College for the Performing Arts (Crossfade). He is the founder of New Music Greensboro, and directed the festival and series for seventeen years, and created the Popular Music and Technology degree at UNCG.
Notable recent composition projects include commissions from Hypercube, the Greensboro Symphony, the Wind Ensemble at the Chicago College of Performing Arts, and the Vandoren corporation. Performers who have championed his music include the Oasis, Vienna and Red Clay Saxophone Quartets, Due East, saxophonists Susan Fancher, James Romain, Steve Stusek, Jonathan Helton and Paul Bro, violinists Dmitry Sitkovetsky and Marjorie Bagley, trombonist Mark Hetzler, and flutists Tadeu Coelho and Erika Boysen. Other significant performances have been given by the Orquestra Sinfônica da Universidade da São Paulo, the Cleveland Winds, the Wroclaw Philharmonic Orchestra and the five operas commissioned and performed by the Greensboro Opera. Engebretson has had performances of his works at Electroacoustica Beijing, SEAMUS, ICMC, Wien Modern, Third Practice, Festival of New American Music, ISCM, BGSU Festival of New Music and Art, Carnegie Hall, Sala São Paulo, Argentina, Albania, Azerbaijan, Lithuania, Sweden, Norway, China, across America and throughout Europe. Over twenty of his compositions are recorded on the Albany, Innova, Lotus, Parma/Navona and Mark labels.
Mark Engebretson taught composition at the University of Florida, music theory at SUNY Fredonia and 20th-century music history at the Eastman School of Music. He studied at the University of Minnesota (graduating summa cum laude), the Conservatoire de Bordeaux as a Fulbright scholar, and Northwestern University, where he received the Doctor of Music degree. At Northwestern he studied with M. William Karlins, Pauline Oliveros, Marta Ptaszynska, Michael Pisaro, Stephen Syverud, Jay Alan Yim, and Frederick Hemke. His teachers in France were Michel Fuste-Lambezat and Jean-Marie Londeix.
Notable recent composition projects include commissions from Hypercube, the Greensboro Symphony, the Wind Ensemble at the Chicago College of Performing Arts, and the Vandoren corporation. Performers who have championed his music include the Oasis, Vienna and Red Clay Saxophone Quartets, Due East, saxophonists Susan Fancher, James Romain, Steve Stusek, Jonathan Helton and Paul Bro, violinists Dmitry Sitkovetsky and Marjorie Bagley, trombonist Mark Hetzler, and flutists Tadeu Coelho and Erika Boysen. Other significant performances have been given by the Orquestra Sinfônica da Universidade da São Paulo, the Cleveland Winds, the Wroclaw Philharmonic Orchestra and the five operas commissioned and performed by the Greensboro Opera. Engebretson has had performances of his works at Electroacoustica Beijing, SEAMUS, ICMC, Wien Modern, Third Practice, Festival of New American Music, ISCM, BGSU Festival of New Music and Art, Carnegie Hall, Sala São Paulo, Argentina, Albania, Azerbaijan, Lithuania, Sweden, Norway, China, across America and throughout Europe. Over twenty of his compositions are recorded on the Albany, Innova, Lotus, Parma/Navona and Mark labels.
Mark Engebretson taught composition at the University of Florida, music theory at SUNY Fredonia and 20th-century music history at the Eastman School of Music. He studied at the University of Minnesota (graduating summa cum laude), the Conservatoire de Bordeaux as a Fulbright scholar, and Northwestern University, where he received the Doctor of Music degree. At Northwestern he studied with M. William Karlins, Pauline Oliveros, Marta Ptaszynska, Michael Pisaro, Stephen Syverud, Jay Alan Yim, and Frederick Hemke. His teachers in France were Michel Fuste-Lambezat and Jean-Marie Londeix.
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