Mark-Anthony Turnage

Composer

Male

Born Jun 10, 1960

Age 52

Hometown Corringham, Essex

Mark-Anthony Turnage is a prolific English composer of classical music. His initial musical studies were with Oliver Knussen, John Lambert, and later with Gunther Schuller. He also has been strongly influenced by jazz, in particular by the work of Miles… Read More

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Fling 2004

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Nyc Opera Season Comes To An End
Huffington Post - Apr 24, 2013

NEW YORK -- Jacques Offenbach's "La Perichole" struggled to break through and was ultimately suffocated in Christopher Alden's heavy-handed and annoying production, the last of New York City Opera's second season as a roaming company. An opera bouffe that's usually airy and sometimes saccharine, "La Perichole" devolved into a series of sophomoric sight gags, overshadowing fine vocal work by mezzo-soprano Marie Lenormand as Perichole and tenor Philippe Talbot as Piquillo, the pair...
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Theatres Coming Soon September 15 Onwards Flintshire Chronicle
Google News - Sep 11, 2011

MARK-Anthony Turnage's brilliant and provocative opera exploded on to the stage in 1988. Based on the play by Steven Berkoff, it catapults us into the seedy, boozy East End world of Eddy and his family. Fed up with his Mum and Dad and fuelled by anger
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Greek/ Music Theatre Wales; Proms 67, 68, 70 – Review The Guardian
Google News - Sep 10, 2011

Marcus Farnsworth as Eddy in Mark-Anthony Turnage's Greek, revived by Music Theatre Wales at the Traverse in Edinburgh. Photograph: Clive Barda/ ArenaPal In Greek the thuggish hero Eddy commits murder, inadvertently sleeps with his mother and gouges
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Eva Maria Westbroek A Voice With No Need For Artificial Enhancement Head The Independent
Google News - Sep 08, 2011

When Eva-Maria Westbroek put on giant fake breasts to sing the title role of Mark-Anthony Turnage's opera Anna Nicole in February, she made a startling discovery. "I'd never had so many friends in my life," the Dutch soprano laughs
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Timeline

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CHILDHOOD

1960 Birth Born in 1960.

THIRTIES

1990 30 Years Old In 1990, Turnage was appointed the first Radcliffe Composer in Association with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.

FORTIES

2005 45 Years Old In Autumn 2005, he was appointed the Royal College of Music's Research Fellow in Composition.

2006 46 Years Old 1 More Event

In 2006, Turnage was named a co-composer-in-residence of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, a position he held alongside Argentinian composer Osvaldo Golijov.

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