Bio
Mark Dancigers is Associate Professor of Music at New College of Florida. An experienced composer, his music explores the interaction of melody, timbre, and movement. With a particular interest in music for dance, he has written for companies including the New York City Ballet, Ballet Collective, and Sarasota Contemporary Dance. Even when writing music not intended for dance, Dancigers creates music that imparts sensations of expressive motion.
His scores have been heard at the Sundance Film Festival, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Spain; in Greece, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Australia, at the Alabama Symphony, New York City Center, and Carnegie Hall. His music is recorded on nine albums released on the New Amsterdam, Bright Shiny Things, and Sono Luminus labels, and has been aired nationally on “Performance Today.” As a producer, he has collaborated with pianist Michael Mizrahi on three acclaimed albums of contemporary piano music, “Dreamspace”, “Currents”, and “The Bright Motion”.
Dancigers performs as an electric guitarist with the chamber music group NOW Ensemble and the duo Grand Electric, whose debut album received a positive review in Gramophone. With NOW Ensemble, he has played and taught in residencies at universities including Yale, the University of Michigan, the University of Denver, and numerous others. NOW Ensemble has been featured at the LA Opera, Town Hall Seattle, the Carnegie Hall Neighborhood Concerts, and the Bang on a Can Marathon.
Dancigers studied music composition at Yale, the Yale School of Music, and received his PhD from Princeton University.