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Marc Yeats is an abstract classical contemporary composer and abstract visual artist: Marc Yeats is represented by Swiss art dealers Stampfli & Turci Espaces Arts & Objets Arts, curation, gallery and much more: http://www.eaobjets.ch/
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'I Am Nature' is a new album of 9 pieces (76 minutes music in all) that explores my reaction in sound to the paintings of the American abstract expressioniat painter Jackson Pollock. These pieces are responses to the surfaces of his paintings, the techniques he used in constructing them as well as my subjective take on the 'feel' of the work. Each track is named after a specific Pollock painting, where I feel the music has a particular relationship with it. The album can be purchased complete or individual tracks can be downloaded. Feel free to buy!
The official blog for 'I Am Nature', which goes into far more detail about the thoughts and processes behind the work can be found in my blogs page - see 'I Am Nature' - new album!
A hard copy CD in full hifidelity AIFF format will be available from the composer soon. Please contact me directly on here if you are interested in receiving a hard copy. This CD will retail for £8.50 including P+P.
New Commissions:
Scottish Clarinet Quartet: 'Fallen Angel' work for bass clarinet quartet and percussion - duration 9 mins. (July 2007)
Symposia: 'Sea Change' work for flute, violin, 'cello, trombone and digital sound environment - duration 17 mins. (June 2007)
SCAW: "Night Flight' work for bass clarinet, piano and digital sound environment - duration 12 mins. Completion winter 2007
A new album of 10 'dance' pieces exploring contemporary dance rythms and avante garde/electro-acoustic techniques. Scheduled for completion in the winter, 2008. Supported with a Creative Development Grant from the Scottish Arts Council.
Trio for flute, cello and piano for Trio IAMA. Duration 16 minutes. Scheduled completion end of spring 2008 (with professional development funds provided by HI~Arts)(2008)
Haar:1 act opera especially created for CD. 2 voices, small female chorus and digital sound environment - projected duration 60 mins. Made possible with funds from the Hope Scott Trust.(2008)
Caliban's Dream - a new work for solo acoustic guitar. (2008)
New work for brass quintet "....the other side of air" - commissioned by International Concert Brass Soloists - 14 minutes duration.(2008)
Marching With Ethel - Piano variations on 'March of the Women' by Ethel Smyth duration: 9 minutes - commissioned by Manchester Gay Pride Festival: Premiere to be given by Stephen Combes on the 18th August in Studio 7, BBC Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester. (2008)
New work to celebrate World Aids Day. Setting one song from a song cycle created by Jackie Kay - for soprano, baritone and the Halle Orchestra and Chorus - conducted by Mark Elder - Duration cira 10 minutes. Premiere at the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester on 1st December 2008. New work for Dirk Amrein (International Concert Brass Soloists) for four trombones (three pre-recorded by Dirk and digitally treated as part of the composition process to create a performance sound track - 4th trombone strand is performed live. Anticipated completion: Winter 08. Duration: circa 15 minutes.
New work for Daniel Sánchez Velasco, (conductor) who is creating a new chamber orchestra in Asturias, Spain. Projected completion February 09: Forces: Flt, Ob, Cl, Bsn, Tpt, Hn, Harp, percussion, Strings: duration: 16 minutes
My music biography
(my visual art biography is further down the page):-
Marc Yeats began composing in 1994. His work has received international acclaim with performances in Germany, Italy, USA, Canada, Argentina, Japan, New Zealand, Holland, and throughout the UK as well as broadcasts on BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio Scotland, German, EU, Japanese and New Zealand radio. Works have been performed by renowned artistes, among others, The Edinburgh String Quartet, the Chamber Group of Scotland, Psappha, Richard Casey, the London Sinfonietta, the Endymion Ensemble, Lonba, Paragon Ensemble, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, illegal harmony, 175 East (N.Z.), Kathryn Stott, Sarah Watts, Sarah Nicolls, Federico Mondelci, the Commonwealth Sinfonietta, Contempo Ensemble (Italy), Rarescale (UK), the New York Miniaturists Ensemble (USA), the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Tokyo City Philharmonic and Gewandhaus Radio Orchestra.
Below is a slide show of my recently created collection of limited edition digital prints. To see more original oil and water colour paintings, further information about my music and paintings or to visit my on-line shop, please go to: marc-yeats.co.uk
In 1997 he was commissioned by the St. Magnus Festival to write the anatomy of air (25 mins.), for the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. The premiere was conducted by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. Later in that year the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra performed I see blue, also conducted by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies and Psappha gave the world premiere of pumping iron (20 mins.) for ten musicians, in Manchester. The Endymion Ensemble gave the work its second performance at the South Bank, London in April 1999. I see blue has so far been broadcast 3 times on BBC Radio 3.
In 1996 Marc was awarded a three-year composer bursary by The Scottish Arts Council to enable him to compose full time.
In November 1997, pagan II for orchestra and is it me? (Cl, Vc, Pno) were premiered in Tokyo as part of The Next Millennium Composition Award. pagan II was premiered by Tokyo City Philharmonic Orchestra. The event has been broadcast in Japan. In 1997 Marc was also awarded a two-year composition bursary from the Hope Scott Trust.
In February 1998, room (12.. for Piano), was given its premiere by Richard Casey in a Psappha promoted concert in Manchester, it has subsequently been performed in the 1998 Cheltenham Festival and throughout the UK. In February 1999 pagan II was recorded for broadcast on BBC Radio 3 by the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies.
In December 1999, a waiting ghost in the blue sky (Cl. Vc. Pno Percussion (1)) was premiered by Contempo Ensemble in Prato, Italy. November 2000 saw Sir Peter conduct I see blue with the Gewandhaus Radio Orchestra in Leipzig. This concert has been broadcast in Germany. Other commissions include a new work for The London Sinfonietta and a commission from the BBC to write a work for piano and orchestra for Kathryn Stott and the BBC Philharmonic. a I edited my profile with The round and square art of memory was premiered in February 2000 in the Bridgewater Hall Manchester. This work has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 twice. The summer of 2000 saw a waiting ghost in the blue sky performed by Psappha at the St. Magnus Festival and was broadcast on BBC Radio 3.
In March 2001, a new work for solo alto saxophone, metaphors of battle and conquest, commissioned by Kathryn Stott for the Italian saxophonist Federico Mondelci, was premiered at the Bromsgrove Festival. In September 2001, the premiere of only the trees will whisper in the dark (Alto Flt. BCl. Vln. Vc. Pno) was given by the Commonwealth Sinfonietta at the Lemon Tree in Aberdeen and later performed in London.
2002 saw the commissioning of several new works including VOX for solo bass clarinet (Sarah Watts) and davy jones' locker (175 East, New Zealand), which was also recorded for New Zealand F.M. mad canary, for solo piccolo, was also given its premiere in New Zealand later that year. October 2002 saw the premiere of colour songs, (high soprano, flt (picc). Cl (bcl) vla. Vc. (35 mins)) by illegal harmony with a tour of five Scottish islands, It was commissioned by Hebridean Music Workshops with funds from the Scottish Arts Council National Lottery.
2003 saw the premieres of hunting magic for flute and piano (Rarescale), whereto my wishes lie for bass clarinet and piano (Sarah Watts), and jigsaw for clarinet, trumpet, double bass, piano and timpani drum (Paragon Ensemble) and for there's a kind of world remaining still for string trio in November (illegal harmony).
February 2004 saw the premiere of repeat offenders, a bass clarinet duo, with Henri Bok and Sarah Watts at the RNCM in Manchester and illegal harmony premiered ASCII dialogues for soprano and alto flute and have heard this dialogue of one for alto flute solo. Further premieres in 2004 include two performances of objects that the sense delude for wind quintet and piano, by Lonba in Buenos Aires, Argentina and in June, stillness in movement , for eight instrumentalists (commissioned by An Tuireann Art Centre with subsidy from the Scottish Arts Council), was premiered by illegal harmony. A commercial recording of this music was produced.
Also in June where do these voices stray, for bass clarinet and Bb clarinet, was premiered by Henri Bok in Washington, America, with subsequent performances in China and Europe. ASCII dialogues is to have its London premiere at the RCM in July - the sea bell's perpetual angelus and an interrupted passacaglia, for solo piano, was premiered by Sarah Nicolls in Somerset in September. Later that year a fractured melody for alto flute and piano, received its world premiere with Rarescale in London.
2005 saw more performances and premieres. In January a fractured melody received its American premiere with Rarescale in New York. In February, tales of enchantment for bass clarinet, (commissioned by Henri Bok), will be premiered at Rotterdam Conservatoire, Holland. In February, I have a charm for bruising for string trio, will be premiered by illegal harmony trio. Have heard this dialogue of one for alto flute, will have its London premiere with Carla Rees. In March and April, my songs, for soprano, clarinet and cello, and hocus-pocus, for wind trio, received their premieres with illegal harmony at An Tuireann Art Centre. Also in April, torment of the metals , for chamber orchestra and soprano, was premiered at Rotterdam Conservatorium, Holland. May saw the second London performance of ASCII dialogues with Rarescale. July saw the London premiere of Hunting Magic (pno and flute) with Rarescale.
In October 2005 Marc was awarded first prize (1500 euro) in the World Bass Clarinet Conference's Composition Competition for his new work for bass clarinet and piano, child to the black faced night. This work will be used as the test piece for the finals of the WBCC performance competition and is to be published by the WBCC 2005. Sarah Watts and Antony Clare also performed whereto my wishes lie, (bass clarinet and piano) at the WBCC.
In 2006, mimesis for bass flute, cello and piano and the viciousness of circles (piano), will receive their world premieres by Rarescale in London. Paul Goodey is also to give the world premiere of a journey to nowhere in particular (for oboe and piano) and Sarah Watts will give the UK premiere of tales of enchantment (bass clarinet solo).
In 2006 two new works were also premiered in New York by the New York Miniaturists Ensemble: Array (cl, Vln, vla) and Hinterland 1 (digital).
In September, Helen Jones, a music theatre piece for Soprano, alto flute and digital sound environment (2006), was given its premiere at An Tuireann Arts Centre with Natalie Raybould (voice) Carla Rees (alto flute) and Micheal Oliva (electronics).
Later this year it will be possible to download complete MP3 and AIFF files of a selection of Marc's works as well as purchase CD recordings direct from the composer's website, a link to which is given below.
"Visual art has been and remains my starting point and frame of reference for composition. I began painting as a teenager and although I wished to compose at this age, I had not acquired the necessary technique to do so. It was not until I was nearly thirty that I began to compose 'on paper'. My composition techniques are drawn primarily from experiences with the practices of the abstraction in the visual arts. Over time I learnt how to translate my personal visual language of colour, form and texture into sound. This translation, along with what I absorbed listening to music, enabled me to approach composition from a very personal point of view."
Marc Yeats was born in London in 1962. His career encompasses painting, nursing, composition and educational projects which relate to several aspects of his talent. He lives and works on the Isle of Skye off the west coast of Scotland.
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Marc Yeats - visual art – biography
Marc Yeats is represented by: Espaces Arts & Objets: Arts, curation, gallery and much more: http://www.eaobjets.ch/
Below is a slide show of my recently created collection of limited edition digital prints. To see more original oil and water colour paintings, further information about my music and paintings or to visit my on-line shop, please go to: marc-yeats.co.uk
Marc began painting at the age of fourteen. His initial painting technique was photo-realistic . Having lived in London and with little experience of the countryside, Marc created imaginary rural idylls based on old images from books and magazines – he had a strong love for the countryside and this love greatly informed the nature of the work he produced. It was evident in these early works that Marc possessed a rare skill for painting realistically - by the age of fifteen, Marc was selling work professionally and sold through many galleries in the South West of England, where he lived at the time.
Between the ages of sixteen and twenty-four, Marc's need for new subject material led him to want to paint real places rather than the imaginary rural composition he had formerly created. Marc travelled around the South West of England and the South West of England and East Anglia collecting subjects for a new series of paintings and drawings. Most of this work was sold at the time and is now in private collections. Marc continued to sell and exhibit work of this type into the late 1980s. During this period Marc refined his photo-realistic techniques until he reached a point from which he felt he could no longer develop - although the subject matter of his paintings differed from each other, he felt that ultimately, he was repeating himself.
Although Marc's work sold well and was of the highest quality, he felt dissatisfaction with the constraints of painting exactly what he saw and being limited by the technical and expressive constraints of photo-realism. His prime interest in landscape, even as a boy, was atmosphere – the atmosphere created by light and weather, by the lie of the land, by the very feel of the places he visited as well as other intuited factors that defy description. This dissatisfaction with his current mode of expression was based in his need to express what he was feeling without necessarily being a slave to the object reality (what was actually seen) that engendered these feelings.
In 1987, Marc moved to the Isle of Skye off the west coast of Scotland. This move was undertaken to allow him to concentrate fully ..ing and composition. The move to Skye enabled Marc to make significant breakthroughs in his painting technique and gradually move away from representational painting into the world of abstraction. This change occurred through a series of apocalyptic transitional paintings where the reality of his subject material, still landscape, began to disintegrate. The paintings were quite disturbing as the distortions of form and colour began to suggest wider emotional and psychological possibilities than the original subject matter possessed – Marc's journey into abstraction had begun.
From the late 1980s through to the present day, Marc has developed and explored his techniques of abstraction. Whilst his work is still based on landscape and the structures and atmospheres to be experienced within it, his paintings have become increasingly less reliant on familiar colour, textural and structural configurations.
Over recent months, Marc has developed an interest in the philosophy and practices of Buddhism and is keen to research how this philosophy can develop his practice as an artist and composer by unifying the techniques and intentions of his work.
Since Marc began painting, the majority of his work has been sold directly to private collectors. However, paintings have been exhibited and sold through the following galleries (1980 – 2003):
Triton Gallery, Torquay
Teignmouth Gallery, Teignmouth
The Twentieth-Century Gallery, London
Maxwell's, Eton
Jaspers Fine Arts Ltd., Maidenhead
Vincent Harris Gallery, London
Century Galleries Ltd., Henley. Solo exhibition
Impressions Gallery, Perthshire
Broadford Gallery, Skye
The Pier Arts Center, Orkney. joint exhibition - 'resound'
Glasgow Art Fair - joint exhibition
An Tuireann Arts Center, Skye. joint exhibition - 5 islands project
The Pier Arts Center, Orkney. joint exhibition - 5 islands project
The Honiton Gallery, Devon
The Salcombe Gallery, Devon
An Lanntair Arts center, Isle of Lewis. joint exhibition - 5 islands project
Bonhoga Gallery, Shetland joint exhibition - 5 islands project
An Tobar Art Center, Isle of Mull joint exhibition - 5 islands project
Chard Art, Chard, Somerset. solo exhibition
An Tuireann Arts Center, Skye. solo instillation - stillness in movement
1997 'Resound' project, St. Magnus Festival, Orkney. Commissioned by the Scottish Arts Council to produce work for this visual arts/music collaboration, co-curated by Marc Yeats and the Pier Arts Center. Resound was subsequently reported on BBC1 Scotland and Grampian Television.
2000 Work selected and exhibited by Highland Council at the Glasgow Art Fair Exhibition.
2002 Watercolour paintings in the permanent collections of An Tuireann Art Center, Skye, An Tobar Art Center, Isle of Mull, The Pier Art Center, Orkney, An Lanntair Arts center, Isle of Lewis and the Bonhoga Gallery, Shetland, as part of the Five Islands Project.
2004 September - Chard Art, Chard Somerset. Solo show. Mixed exhibition of thirty four works comprising oil paintings and watercolour collage.
2004 October 2 - 12th November. venue: An Tuireann Arts Centre: Solo show, Stillness in Movement - an installation of nine oil paintings and specially commissioned music.
2007 April 27th - 2nd. June. An Tuireann Arts Centre, Skye. Sealladh 3 - Joint exhibition showing Seven Horizons (2007) and Blue Gem.