Mark Laycock

Mark Laycock (* 1957 ) is an American conductor and composer .

job

Mark Laycock began his varied musical career as a violinist with the Curtis String Quartet in Philadelphia / USA, under whose guidance he had studied from 1975 to 1979. He began conducting at the age of 16, then studied as a Fellow of the Aspen Music Festival and at the St. Louis Conservatory of Music, where he won the Leopold Stockowski Memorial Competition with the Philadelphia Orchestra. He also made his conducting debut at the age of 21 with the Philadelphia Orchestra. Since then, Mark Laycock has regularly conducted the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, the Zurich Chamber Orchestra, the Bochum Symphony Orchestra and the Georges Enescu Philharmonic in Bucharest. He had European engagements a. in the Bach-Collegium Stuttgart, the Jenaer Philharmonie, the Philharmonie Neubrandenburg, the Bayrische Kammer-Philharmonie, the Festival der Streicher Luzern, the German National Theater and the Staatskapelle Weimar and the Stabanker Symphonie Orchester Norway. Laycock is the first foreign conductor to conduct at the Moscow Autumn Festival in 1988. In the same year he opened the newly renovated Cairo Opera House and conducted the first public classical concert in Amman, Jordan. His appearance was broadcast live on the television station NJN. In 2001 he gave a concert at the Palazzo de Bellas Arten and the following year he gave a master's class for conducting in Mexico City. As a participant in the “Project Uplift”, he traveled to Ekaterinenburg in 2005 for a performance of the Mozart Requiem with the Sverdlosk State Orchestra. In 2006/2007 he conducted the TJB Orchestra in Daejeon and the Gyeonggi Philharmonic Orchestra in Seoul. His more than 2000 appearances as a conductor around the world built his reputation as a “last minute conductor”, as he had several times great success at concerts in which he had to step in in a short time and conduct without rehearsals. Haycock was principal conductor of the Princeton Symphony Orchestra for over 20 years.

composer

His compositions were u. a. Performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra, New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, Alabama Symphony Orchestra, Canton (OH) Symphony Orchestra and the Princeton Symphony Orchestra. His flute concerto “Flute Concerto for Jasmine Choi” (Songbird's Journey) was premiered in 2014 by the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra; further performances followed with the Berliner Symphoniker in 2015, 2016 in Bucharest and Vienna. Laycock is currently working on further commissioned work.

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personal data
SURNAME	Laycock, Mark
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American conductor and composer
DATE OF BIRTH	1957