Discipline: Music Composition

Mark Winges

Discipline: Music Composition
Region: San Francisco, CA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1999, 2002, 2005

Mark Winges was born in Louisville, Kentucky, and currently resides in San Francisco, where he is composer/advisor for the chamber choir Volti. He was also composer-in-residence for the San Francisco Choral Artists for the 2012/13 season. 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, the Verge Ensemble, the American Modern Ensemble, 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), The Crossing, Carmina Slovenica (Slovenia), the Guangdong Choir (China), Aarhus Pigekor (Denmark), the Marin, Berkeley and Piteå (Sweden) Symphonies, and many others.

Studios

Monday Music

Mark Winges worked in the Monday Music studio.

Given to the residency by the Monday Music Club of Orange, NJ, Monday Music Studio is sited next to an enormous boulder deposited by glaciers thousands of years ago. A small dormer once pierced the east slope of the roof, but after damage suffered in the 1938 hurricane, the roof was rebuilt without the dormer. The interior…

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