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Mark Winges was born in Louisville, Kentucky, and currently resides in San Francisco, where he is composer / advisor for the chamber choir Volti. He is a graduate of the College-Conservatory of Music - University of Cincinnati, SF State University, and has studied at the Musikhögskolan in Stockholm, Sweden. His principal teachers were Ellsworth Milburn, Henry Onderdonk, and Arne Mellnäs. His works have been performed by the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, the New Jersey Percussion Ensemble, the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, Earplay, Works-in-Progress: Berlin, the Empyrean Ensemble, Volti, the Piedmont Children's Choir, the San Francisco Girl's Chorus, the Pharos Music Project (NY), Carmina Slovenica (Slovenia), the Guangdong Choir (China), the Marin, Berkeley and Piteå (Sweden) Symphonies and many others.
Recent pieces include the song cycle Discover & Reveal for alto, viola and piano, which was premiered in Boston by Elizabeth Anker and his San Francisco Stopover for guitar, viola and cello, written for the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble in San Francisco. His most recent large-scale projects are Mirrors: a Concerto for Double Bass and Orchestra for bassist Michel Taddei, and pax penetralis (inner peace passing through) for the San Francisco Choral Society, Robert Geary, director. But This Is This, a CD of his chamber music, has just been released Centaur label. Freed From Words, a CD of his choral music, was lauded by Amanda MacBlane of the American Music Center's New Music Box with these words: “the choral music of San Francisco-based composer Mark Winges probes deeply into the spiritual and sonic depths of the chorus.” |
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