Mark-Anthony Turnage

One of Britain's most successful living composers, Mark-Anthony Turnage has achieved international stature and is commissioned and performed throughout the world. Renowned for his intense love and knowledge of jazz, he works highly successfully with many great jazz performers, effortlessly blending the languages of classical and jazz.His music is colourful, rhythmic, often lyrical and always distinctive, with an innate dramatic sense. Powerful in its contrasts, his music and texts hold up a mirror to the realities of modern life and make a broad appeal to an enquiring contemporary audience.'The simple suggestiveness of the music belies its complexity, with an atmosphere ranging from urban languor to Mahlerian dreamworld. In this guise, Turnage is both arch-melodist and master-orchestrator.' Financial Times'Cut Up, Turnage's opening movement is an exhilarating onslaught of rhythm and colour, brilliantly conceived for the orchestra.' Financial TimesMark-Anthony Turnage and Osvaldo Golijov will join the Chicago Symphony Orchestra as Mead Composers-in-Residence for a two-year period covering the 2006/07 and 2007/08 seasons.Buy This Silence which also features: True Life Stories / Slide Stride / Two Baudelaire Songs / Eulogy / Two vocalises / Cantilena Released by Onyx in October 2005Buy Scherzoid / Evening Songs / When I Woke / Yet Another Set To Released by the LPO in October 2005Buy Scorched (written by Turnage & John Scofield, conducted by Hugh Wolff). Nominated for two 2005 GRAMMY Awards: Best Engineered Album, Classical (Category 93) & Best Classical Crossover Album (Category 105).Mark-Anthony Turnage is Composer in Residence at the LPOVisit Schott Music for information about works written before 2003Boosey & Hawkes publish Mark-Anthony Turnage's works since January 2003