Mark Bowden's music is performed at festivals and events throughout the UK, Europe, and the US, and can be heard regularly on radio stations around the world. He is currently resident composer with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Mark was the 2011-12 Music Fellow at Rambert Dance Company and the first composer-in-residence at Handel House Museum. He is a founding member of the critically acclaimed Camberwell Composers’ Collective and was new music associate at Kettle's Yard, University of Cambridge from 2008-2010. Bowden was composer-in-residence in 2011 and 2012 at the Visby International Centre for Composers in Sweden.
His recent projects include his percussion concerto Heartland, which received its premiere at the Vale of Glamorgan Festival performed by Julian Warburton and toured the UK as the score for a new National Dance Company of Wales work choreographed by Eleesha Drennan; Parable, for alto saxophone, commissioned by the London Sinfonietta for Simon Haram; and his cello concerto Lyra, premiered by Oliver Coates and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.
