Artist description composer, violinist

Music Style experimental

Artist History Marc Sabat is a Canadian composer and violinist living in Berlin since 1999. His work encompasses concert music for various ensembles (orchestral, chamber and solo works, also with live computer and electronics) as well as recorded projects involving sound, video and film. His music includes a chamber opera (1998) for Ensemble SurPlus (Freiburg); orchestra pieces for Vancouver New Music (2000) and for the 1998 June in Buffalo Festival; chamber music for ensembles including Ensemble Resonanz (Hamburg), Ergo (Toronto), Modern Art Sextet (Berlin), Quartett Avance (Freiburg), The Burdocks (Toronto); and various solo pieces. Most recently completed compositions are John Jenkins for a two-manual harpsichord tuned in Helmholtz-Temperament and six instruments and Artificial Music for Machines, a duo for MIDI-output acoustic piano and harmonically-tuned sinusoidal tones generated by computer. Sabat is currently completing a commissioned work for the Toronto-based percussion quintet Nexus. In addition, he is working on an ongoing series of compositions to be presented in recorded form combining video and sound, among them Change in your pocket (1998/2002), For Magister Zacharias (1997/2002), and a new piece based on a text by Bruce Nauman. His recent continuing collaboration with Wolfgang von Schweinitz has led to a series of independent recordings issued under PLAINSOUND MUSIC EDITION, as well as theoretical and practical research on the subject of intonation and harmonic perception, and in particular the development of a fully-transposing notation system for Just Intonation. The recently founded ensemble Plainsound Orchestra, which presented its first concerts in 2002, is exploring the realization of these sounds in practice. Sabat also performs in a violin & piano duo with Stephen Clarke. Sabat/Clarke's recording projects include the complete music for violin and piano of James Tenney (hatART 120), Morton Feldman (Mode 82/3) and Christian Wolff (Mode), as well as pieces by Maria de Alvear (Thinking (2000), World Edition) and Gerald Barry. They have performed together at a number of major festivals in Europe, Canada, and the USA. Upcoming and planned projects include recordings for MODE of music by Morton Feldman (violin and string quartet), Walter Zimmermann (solo violin), and Marc Sabat (mixed ensemble), performances with Plainsound Orchestra at MaerzMusik 2003 (Berlin) and Reihe 0 Tage Aus Kunst 2003 (Bregenzerwald, Austria), and an invitation to present a solo violin program and new compositions at the 2004 Ars Nova series of SWR radio in Germany. Marc Sabat studied at the University of Toronto and the Juilliard School of Music in New York.

Instruments violin, viola

Additional Info contact: masa@plainsound.org

Location Berlin, Berlin - Germany

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