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Biography
Mark Bowler (b.1980)
Mark is a composer of orchestral, chamber, vocal and electronic music, a songwriter, and a performer of folk and experimental music. Stylistically eclectic, he explores ideas relating to symmetry & geometry using aesthetically moderated patterns & processes, and the relationships between musics from the folk, classical and pop traditions.
His explorations of groove music in a classical setting won him the Britten Sinfonia OPUS2017 commission and his music has been performed or commissioned by EXAUDI, Plus Minus Ensemble, Kaleidoscope Saxophone Quartet, Ex Cathedra, Ligeti Quartet, Selwyn College Choir and Bournemouth Sinfonietta Choir amongst others. Mark's music is associated with Millennium Bridge through the Illuminated River project, accompanying a lighting design by Leo Villareal.
Growing up on the coast of North Yorkshire, he began his musical training with the RSCM Northern Cathedral Singers before honing his skills as a songwriter in the 90's indie scene. In the 00's he worked closely with Adrian Palka exploring the cross-arts possibilities of the Bow Chimes and Steel Cello (Robert Rutman's sculpture-instruments) performing and installing works across the UK, Europe and Russia. He later became a key player in Stamp Collective (Guildhall School of Music & Drama folk music ensemble) and is a founding member of folk collective Tribe of Tinkers.
He has released albums of electronic, pop and folk music with and as Dr Congo, Audiobubble, Tinker, Tribe of Tinkers, Crossfader, Bucket Chemists, Phonographic Perverts, Stamp Collective, and has two recent releases on One Glass Eye Records: 'Puzzle Book', recorded by Kaleidoscope Saxophone Quartet and 'Quartet for Strings', a four movement work exploring folk traditions of the British Isles and Eastern Europe, recorded by Ligeti Quartet.
Mark read Music Composition & Professional Practice at Coventry University under Martin Riley, Adrian Palka and Chris Wilson, graduating with Honours, First Class. He is currently on a postgraduate programme at Guildhall School of Music & Drama under Matthew King and has studied privately with John Lely.
Mark is a composer of orchestral, chamber, vocal and electronic music, a songwriter, and a performer of folk and experimental music. Stylistically eclectic, he explores ideas relating to symmetry & geometry using aesthetically moderated patterns & processes, and the relationships between musics from the folk, classical and pop traditions.
His explorations of groove music in a classical setting won him the Britten Sinfonia OPUS2017 commission and his music has been performed or commissioned by EXAUDI, Plus Minus Ensemble, Kaleidoscope Saxophone Quartet, Ex Cathedra, Ligeti Quartet, Selwyn College Choir and Bournemouth Sinfonietta Choir amongst others. Mark's music is associated with Millennium Bridge through the Illuminated River project, accompanying a lighting design by Leo Villareal.
Growing up on the coast of North Yorkshire, he began his musical training with the RSCM Northern Cathedral Singers before honing his skills as a songwriter in the 90's indie scene. In the 00's he worked closely with Adrian Palka exploring the cross-arts possibilities of the Bow Chimes and Steel Cello (Robert Rutman's sculpture-instruments) performing and installing works across the UK, Europe and Russia. He later became a key player in Stamp Collective (Guildhall School of Music & Drama folk music ensemble) and is a founding member of folk collective Tribe of Tinkers.
He has released albums of electronic, pop and folk music with and as Dr Congo, Audiobubble, Tinker, Tribe of Tinkers, Crossfader, Bucket Chemists, Phonographic Perverts, Stamp Collective, and has two recent releases on One Glass Eye Records: 'Puzzle Book', recorded by Kaleidoscope Saxophone Quartet and 'Quartet for Strings', a four movement work exploring folk traditions of the British Isles and Eastern Europe, recorded by Ligeti Quartet.
Mark read Music Composition & Professional Practice at Coventry University under Martin Riley, Adrian Palka and Chris Wilson, graduating with Honours, First Class. He is currently on a postgraduate programme at Guildhall School of Music & Drama under Matthew King and has studied privately with John Lely.
Reviews:
Mark Bowler's Fother-Jiggen, Downey, Full-Score was inspired by Bowler's discovery that the West Country had an archaic sheep-counting rhyme similar to the one Bowler knew from his native Teesdale. The result is the tongue-twister starting 'Hant, tant, tother, fothery, fant' and ending 'fother-jiggen, full-score'. Bowler created from this a tongue twisting musical work appealingly full of vibrant rhythms.
-http://www.planethugill.com/2017/03/music-in-our-time-from-70th-birthday-to.html
Mark Bowler's Fother-Jiggen, Downey, Full-Score was inspired by Bowler's discovery that the West Country had an archaic sheep-counting rhyme similar to the one Bowler knew from his native Teesdale. The result is the tongue-twister starting 'Hant, tant, tother, fothery, fant' and ending 'fother-jiggen, full-score'. Bowler created from this a tongue twisting musical work appealingly full of vibrant rhythms.
-http://www.planethugill.com/2017/03/music-in-our-time-from-70th-birthday-to.html
