New York based composer Brian Mark has been hailed as an “attractive and intelligible” artist (Boston Musical Intelligencer), whose work is “compelling” (London Jazz News), and "preserves the vibrancy and relevance of contemporary art music" (New York Examiner). Brian's music have been performed by many notable ensembles, such as the BBC Singers, Chelsea Symphony, Signal Ensemble, Atlas Ensemble, MikroEnsemble, Brave New Works, Choral Chameleon, both the Ligeti and Esterhazy String Quartets, Juventas Ensemble, and Dither Quartet, among many others. His works have been presented around the world in festivals such as Bang on a Can, London Contemporary Music Festival, Atlas Festival, Spitalfields Music Festival, June in Buffalo Festival, Bowdoin International Music Festival, highSCORE Festival. Brian has recently been awarded the 2016 Jerome Composers Commissioning Program/Jerome Fund for New Music. He has also received multiple awards from SCI and ASCAP, New London Singers, Ross McKee Foundation, Florence Gould Michael Iovenko Memorial Fellowship, and the BMI Henry Warren Film Scoring Award. He has been featured as a composer-in-residence with the Chelsea Symphony, and was awarded multiple artist residencies at the I-Park Artists’ Enclave, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, and the Ucross Foundation. He recently completed his PhD at the Royal Academy of Music, studying with Gary Carpenter.