New York based composer, pianist and video artist 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). The American Composers Forum esteemed Brian as an "intelligent, modern composer who employs many media elements and does so with marked idiosyncrasy and depth”. His concert programming as an artistic director for “Ensemble in Process” has recently been described as “a fluid approach to presenting new music in fresh contexts and juxtapositions” (The New Yorker), and his previous curations for “DETOUR” was featured as "one the top five new music events of 2011" from New York’s Classical WQXR. Brian's music have been performed by many notable ensembles, such as the BBC Singers, Chelsea Symphony, Pacific Chamber Orchestra, Signal Ensemble, Atlas Ensemble, Psappha Ensemble, Choral Chameleon, both the Ligeti and Esterhazy String Quartets, members of the London Symphony Orchestra, Juventas Ensemble, 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, Oregon Bach Festival, Spitalfields Music Festival, June in Buffalo, Bowdoin, i=u, and the highSCORE Festival. Brian has recently been awarded a 2021 grant from the Brooklyn Arts Council. He has also received multiple awards and grants from the Jerome Fund, New Music USA, the Grammy Foundation, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, ASCAP, New London Singers, Ross McKee Foundation, Florence Gould Michael Iovenko Memorial Fellowship, the BMI Henry Warren Film Scoring Award, and was very highly commended for the 2016 Alan Bush Prize. He has been featured as a composer-in-residence with the Chelsea Symphony, the Bizarre Noir Theatre Company, and was awarded multiple artist residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, i-Park, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, and the Ucross Foundation. He has received an Honorable Mention from the 2015 American Prize in Orchestral Composition, and was awarded one of the top ten prizes from Mozaik’s Philanthropy’s “Future Art Awards” Competition for works created in response to COVID-19. He also received a fellowship to study Korean Music at the National Gugak Centre in Seoul. As a composer for film, his music for the Independent Short Film Misunderstood, directed by Pablo Herrán de Viu, was exhibited at the 2009 Screen Loud Film Festival in NYC, and the 2010 Festival Internacional de Cine Pobre de Humberto Solás in Habana City, Cuba. He was appointed as an Associate Member with the London Symphony Orchestra’s Composer Soundhub Scheme from 2015-2017, which culminated of a video installation premiere comprising of members from the LSO. Brian has completed his PhD in Music Composition at the Royal Academy of Music, studying with Gary Carpenter. He is also a graduate of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Berklee College of Music, the University of South California’s Graduate Film Scoring Program, and Boston University.
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