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MUSICIAN<br />
Mark Dancigers<br />
Mark Dancigers is a composer of chamber, orchestral, film, and solo instrumental<br />
works, and the electric guitarist for the new-chamber music group NOW Ensemble.<br />
Praised for his “entrancing”<br />
music in the New York Times,<br />
Dancigers creates scores<br />
that are melodically driven,<br />
texturally imaginative, and<br />
sonically vibrant. He holds<br />
degrees in music from Yale,<br />
the Yale School of Music, and<br />
Princeton University, and is<br />
Assistant Professor of Digital<br />
Media and Music at New<br />
College of Florida.<br />
PHOTO BY ANJA SCHUTZ<br />
He scored the film “The Measure of All Things” by Oscar nominated director Sam<br />
Green, which premiered at the Sundance Festival with a live soundtrack performed<br />
by yMusic. The film score has been performed subsequently in the Netherlands,<br />
Greece, the U.K., and venues around the United States. Dancigers also co-scored,<br />
with Troy Herion, the feature documentary “The Dog” about the life of John<br />
Wojtowicz, the subject of “Dog Day Afternoon”.<br />
Dancigers has collaborated with New York City Ballet choreographer Justin Peck for<br />
a pas de deux called “The Bright Motion”. He has also collaborated with New York<br />
City Ballet choreographer Troy Schumacher and his group Ballet Collective on a pas<br />
de deux, “The Last Time This Ended”. The latter was praised in the Huffington Post<br />
as “creeping, majestic, and fantastical; it feels textured, like if you could touch the<br />
music, it would prick you.”<br />
Mark Dancigers’ music has been performed at the the Guggenheim Museum,<br />
Bilbao Spain, Apples and Olives Festival in Zurich, the Nordernzon Performing Arts<br />
Festival in the Netherlands, The Athens Concert Hall, Greece, Sydney, Australia,<br />
Carnegie Hall, Miller Theater, Symphony Space, Merkin Hall, BargeMusic, the<br />
Kitchen NYC, Arts Brookfield at the Brookfield Place Winter Garden, the Bang<br />
on a Can Marathon, the Percussive Arts Society International Conference, the<br />
Skaneateles Festival, and numerous other venues.<br />
His orchestra music has been performed by the Alabama, Minnesota, Cabrillo, and<br />
New York Youth Symphony Orchestras.<br />
As an album producer, his credits include pianist Michael Mizrahi’s “Currents”<br />
(2016) and “The Bright Motion” (2012), which made the Top Ten Best Classical<br />
Releases of 2012 in both Time Out New York and Time Out Chicago.<br />
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