Evolving/Revolving: Jehanne

CONTRIBUTORS
Mark Dancigers – Praised as “entrancing” in the
New York Times, Dancigers’ output includes music for
the New York City Ballet, scores heard at the Sundance
Film Festival, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Spain, the
Athens Concert Hall in Greece, Zurich, the Netherlands,
Australia, New York City Center, Carnegie Hall, and
many other venues. His music has been performed by
the Alabama Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, Cabrillo
Festival Orchestra, Thunder Bay Philharmonic, and the
New York Youth Symphony. New projects include an
electric guitar and piano duo “Grand Electric” with acclaimed Juilliard faculty pianist
Aaron Wunsch.
His music is recorded on seven contemporary classical albums released on the New
Amsterdam label, distributed by Naxos. He has collaborated with Grammy Award
winning engineers Jesse Lewis and Kyle Pyke.
Dancigers’ musical journey began as an electric guitarist playing and multi-tracking
instrumental rock on a Tascam 4-track. Simultaneously he discovered a passion for
classical music, and pursued musical training at Yale, the Yale School of Music, and
Princeton University, where he received his PhD, writing a concerto for electric guitar
and orchestra as his dissertation.
He has performed as an electric guitarist at the LA Opera in Disney Hall, House of
Blues Boston, Town Hall Seattle, the San Diego Museum of Art, Houston Da Camera
and numerous venues around the US.
With enthusiasm for sharing the passion and joy of music, he has taught
composition, music technology, and theory faculty at Yale, the University of Redlands
School of Music, and the New College of Florida. At New College he directed the
concert series New Music New College, creating opportunities for audiences to
experience a broad range of contemporary composition and performance.
He has helped bring the electric guitar into new contexts in classical music through
his work with NOW Ensemble, a chamber music group in which he performs
and records music by some of the most exciting new voices in contemporary
composition, premiering over 100 works for electric guitar in an ensemble setting.
As an album producer, his credits include pianist Michael Mizrahi’s “Currents”
and “The Bright Motion”, which made the Top Ten Best Classical Releases of both
Time Out New York and Time Out Chicago. He is currently working as producer on
Mizrahi’s third solo album, which will be produced in high-definition DSD audio.
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