Marc Yeats

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Marc Yeats is an abstract classical contemporary composer and abstract visual artist. He isComposer-in-Association with Manchester Pride and was a shortlisted composer for the prestigious PRS for Music, Foundatsion's £50,000 New Music Award 2010, as part of the collaborative team presenting SATSYMPH, a satellite symphony delivered via an iphone app. SATSYMPH did not win the New Music Award but did win a resounding victory with the public vote indicating that most people wanted to experience and support SATSYMPH ,



Marc Yeats is represented by Swiss art dealers Stampfli & Turci
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Marc Yeats is a composer and visual artist. His uncompromising music has been performed, commissioned and broadcast around the world. He has worked with many distinguished performers, ensembles and musicians including Psappha, the London Sinfonietta, the Endymion Ensemble, Paragon Ensemble, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Hallé Orchestra, Tokyo City Philharmonic and Gewandhaus Radio Orchestra, among others. Marc has been interviewed widely and his work broadcast on BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio Scotland as well as German, EU, Hawaiian, Japanese and New Zealand radio.
Recent news:
Marc has recently been shortlisted in his capacity as lead artist (composer) along with collaborators, Ralph Hoyte, poet and Phill Phelps, coder, for the PRSF New Music Award. Called the 'Turner Prize for new music' the £50,000 prize, the largest music award in the UK will be won by the new music project judged the most innovative among the five shortlisted entries.



Earlier this year, Marc was appointed Composer-in-Association with Manchester Pride. This years Festival includes the world première of “schlick’s approximation”, for clarinet, violin & piano, It was performed on 27th August by the ensemble CHROMA.



Marc’s most recent commission is 'rhêma' for harpsichord. Commissioned by BBC Radio 3 to be premiered by Mahan Esfahani, Leeds, October 2010 with a Subsequent broadcast on BBC Radio 3 scheduled for early 2011



‘The genesis of his work stems from two major influences on the composer. Yeats' own initial musical experiences delineate nostalgia for the English Pastoral School (exemplified by Bax, Vaughan Williams and Moeran) casting an acute emotional impression and a diametric opposite; matched by his passion for and fascination with avant-garde expressionism and experimentalism awakened from the 1960s and '70s.

Being also an acclaimed landscape painter Marc Yeats' work with colour, form and texture inform his ideas on musical construction and content. As his illustrative aptitude intensified he observed: 

'I moved decisively from representational to abstract art. With a rising technical repertoire, so too grew my conviction of creating an individual compositional language by exploring these modes in a musical context. In I am Nature, both threads are transformed through my "painterly ear" to assimilate and evoke a very personal, natural and unselfconscious outpouring of sound.

On first hearing, the music may seem arbitrary, improvisational or even chaotic. This is not the case. Consciously the music doesn't operate within the logic of number series, motific development, Fibonacci-based proportions, functional harmony, magic squares, tone rows or any of the customary gamete of compositional techniques. Another rationale is operative; a personal logic rooted in "self experience" of the techniques and processes of abstract painting.'
Excerpt about Yeats’ work from ‘I am Nature’ edited by Keith Evans.