Researching Mark Bowden
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 8642 people with the Bowden surname? In that year Bowden was ranked number 471 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Mark means "warlike" and is of Latin origin.
Records of Mark Bowden on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Mark Bowden and the Bowden Family History
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Mark Bowden (composer)
Mark Bowden (born 1979, South Wales) is a British composer of classical music.
Bowden studied composition with Richard Steinitz at the University of Huddersfield before completing a master's degree at the Royal College of Music where he studied with Julian Anderson. He has received commissions from the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the Ulster Orchestra, amongst others and his music has been broadcast by BBC Radio 3. With Anna Meredith and Emily Hall he created the Camberwell Composers' Collective.
Bowden has received several awards and prizes including the Royal Philharmonic Society Composition Prize and a British Composer Award. Bowden was the first composer-in-residence at Handel House Museum and, with fellow composers in the Camberwell Composers' Collective, was New Music Associate at Kettle's Yard in Cambridge from 2008-2010. He was the 2011–2012 Music Fellow at Rambert Dance Company.
He was Resident Composer at BBC National Orchestra of Wales from 2011 to 2015 and is Professor of Composition at Royal Holloway, University of London.
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