Mark-Anthony Turnage

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Mark-Anthony Turnage (born June 10, 1960 in Corringham , Essex ) is a British composer .

Mark-Anthony Turnage is a successful representative of the new music of our time. His works are shaped by his close ties to jazz in general and the music of Miles Davis in particular. With its mixture of jazz and classical styles, Turnage paves its own way between modernity and tradition and questions the gap between contemporary and authentic historical playing practices . He enriches contemporary music with his idiosyncratic tonal language.

Live and act

Turnage studied at the Royal College of Music with Oliver Knussen and John Lambert . He trained with Gunther Schuller and Hans Werner Henze in Tanglewood . In 1988 the opera "Greek" was commissioned for the Munich Biennale . From 1989 to 1993 he was Composer in Association with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra under Sir Simon Rattle . He also acted as "Composer in Association" of the ENO and advisor to their Contemporary Opera Studio. In 2000 he became "Associate Composer" of the BBC Symphony Orchestra . For the 2006 to 2008 seasons he was appointed Mead Composer in Residence with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra . In 2008 he was also composer in residence with the London Symphony Orchestra .

Works

At the beginning of his work there are mainly the great works "Three Screaming Popes", "Kai", "Momentum" and "Drowned Out". In this and the song cycle "Some Days" (1989) Turnage shows great freedom of expression and confidence. Its development reached its first climax with the saxophone concerto "Your Rockaby" (1992) and three years later "Blood on the Floor".

In the second half of the 1990s Turnage wrote mainly stage works. The main work was his second full-length opera "The Silver Tassie", which premiered in February 2000 with great success at the English National Opera .

At the moment the main focus of his work is on instrumental compositions. Particularly noteworthy are "A Quick Blast", which premiered by the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the 2001 Cheltenham Festival, and the commissioned work "Bass Inventions", which premiered in May 2001 by jazz bassist Dave Holland in Amsterdam . "Scorched" placed the fusion jazz guitarist John Scofield and his playing style at the center of a work that was premiered with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra in 2002 and was released in 2004 as an album. Shortly afterwards, “Dark Crossing” was tackled with Oliver Knussen and the London Sinfonietta .

The opera Anna Nicole, about the life of the model Anna Nicole Smith , premiered in 2011 at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden . The German premiere took place in the Theater Dortmund in April and May 2013. The director was opera director Jens-Daniel Herzog , the musical director was GMD Jac van Steen .

Prizes and awards

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Royal Opera House, Anna Nicole ( Memento of the original dated November 8, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.roh.org.uk
  2. ^ Bosom friends of modern misery , in FAZ from February 19, 2011.
  3. ^ Information on the play at the Dortmund Theater , accessed on April 22, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Turnage, Mark-Anthony
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British composer
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Corringham , Essex