Mark Bowler

Mark Bowler (b.1980)

Mark is a composer of orchestral, chamber, vocal and electronic music, a songwriter, and a performer of folk and experimental music. His music has been described as having 'a sophisticated aesthetic... communicated with subtlety and individuality' and as being 'strangely dramatic and persistently eloquent', 'imaginative and witty', and 'hugely vivid... often haunting'.

His explorations of asymmetrical folk grooves in Deep Green won him the Britten Sinfonia OPUS2017 commission and his music has been performed or commissioned by EXAUDI, Plus Minus Ensemble, Kaleidoscope Saxophone Quartet, Ex Cathedra, Ligeti Quartet, Samuel Lom, Selwyn College Choir, No Dice Collective and Bournemouth Sinfonietta Choir amongst others. Mark's music is associated with Millennium Bridge through the Illuminated River project, accompanying a lighting design by Leo Villareal.
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Mark has also released albums of electronic, pop and folk music with and as Dr Congo, Audiobubble, Tribe of Tinkers, Crossfader, Bucket Chemists, Phonographic Perverts, Stamp Collective.