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Praised by The Chicago Tribune as "minutely crafted" and "utterly lovely" and The New York Times as "whimsical" and "surreal," the music of composer Marcos Balter (b.1974, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) has been featured at Chicago Symphony Orchestra's MusicNOW, E-Werk Freiburg, Teatro de Madrid, Tokyo Bunka Kaykan, Baryshnikov Arts Center, Morgan Library, Le Poison Rouge, and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Chicago. Recent festival appearances include those at Lockenhaus Kammermusikfestival, Aspen, ACO's SONiC Festival, Darmstadt Ferienkurse, Color Field, Musica Nova, and MATA's Interval Series. Past honors include commissions from Meet the Composer, Chamber Music America, The Fromm Foundation at Harvard University, The Holland/America Music Society, The MacArthur Foundation, and the Art Institute of Chicago, fellowships from the Tanglewood Music Center/Leonard Bernstein Foundation and the Civitella Ranieri Foundation (USA/Italy), as well as first prizes in several national and international composition competitions.
2012-2013 highlights include performances at Acht Brücken Festival (Cologne), the French Academy at Villa Medici (Rome), Itaú Cultural (São Paulo), Basel Museum für Gegenwarstkunst, and Le Zèbre de Belleville (Paris), world premieres by the International Contemporary Ensemble, Mivos String Quartet, the Bugallo/Williams Piano Duo, Spektral Quartet, Anubis Saxophone Quartet, and flutist Eric Lamb, recordings with Ensemble Dal Niente, bassoonist Rebekah Heller, saxophonist Ryan Muncy, flutist Claire Chase, soprano Amanda DeBoer and Wild/Wulliman Duo, and performances led by conductors Marino Formeti and Scott Voyles.
Recent collaborators include the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, Chicago Composers Orchestra, American Contemporary Music Ensemble, Manhattan Sinfonietta, tenor Peter Tantsits, soprano Tony Arnold, Third Coast Percussion, violist Nadia Sirota, Ensemble SurPlus, Line C3, percussionist Samuel Solomon, clarinetist Michael Norsworthy, flutists Sarah Brady, Shannah Gutierrez, and Timothy Munro, cellists Russell Rolen and Katinka Kleijn, and conductors Cliff Colnot, Eric Hewitt, Michael Lewanski, and Mathew Kasper.
He graduated with school and departmental honors at Northwestern University where his main teachers were Augusta Read Thomas, Amy Williams, and Jay Alan Yim. Guest instructors in master classes and festivals include Louis Andriessen, George Benjamin, Pierre Boulez, Elliott Carter, Oliver Knussen, Christian Lauba, Tristan Murail, Enno Poppe, Bernard Rands, Wolfgang Rihm, and Kaija Saariaho.
Having previously taught at the University of Pittsburgh, Northwestern University, and Lawrence University, he is currently the Director of the Music Composition program at Columbia College Chicago.
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