Mark Grey Music - Composer, Sound Designer

"The composer Mark Grey
is a master..."

Grey is a composer as well as a sound engineer, and what he is
up to has far-reaching implications for the direction that classical music will take this century."

~Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times

Mark Grey at Sunset Crater, Arizona
Photo by Deborah O'Grady

Current CD Release

"Mark Grey's score is perfectly crafted, impeccably paced,
beautifully scored." ~The Arizona Republic

Enemy Slayer: a Navajo Oratorio Naxos recording

The Naxos recording of Grey's Enemy Slayer: A Navajo Oratorio is available now. Recording is of the world premiere performance featuring The Phoenix Symphony conducted by Michael Christie, the Phoenix Symphony Chorus and baritone Scott Hendricks.
Read liner notes | Read libretto | Order on Amazon

Selected as a "Best Classical Release" of Q1 2009, Allmusic.com
A Naxos Direct Best Selling Album

"Musically, 'Enemy Slayer' is stunning. It moves from breathtakingly beautiful and lush passages to sections that are stringently dissonant, and finally ends peacefully and simply. Yet everything is cohesive and quite seamless. It is a hypnotic work that makes quite an impression on the listener."

~Review of Salt Lake City Choral Artists and Orchestra performance on
May 2, 2009, Deseret News

Compositions

Ātash Sorushān (Fire Angels)
for soprano and chamber orchestra
A Carnegie Hall co-commission with Cal Performances and others
World Premiere: March 29, 2011, Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hall, New York
West Coast Premiere: April 03, 2011, Cal Performances, Hertz Hall, Berkeley, CA
Music by Mark Grey, Libretto by Niloufar Talebi, Video by Catherine Owens
Jessica Rivera, soprano
Molly Morkoski, piano and the MEME ensemble

Mugunghwa: Rose of Sharon
for solo violin, double chorus and chamber orchestra
A Los Angeles Master Chorale commission
Premiere: March 06, 2011, Walt Disney Concert Hall
Los Angeles Master Chorale with Grant Gershon, conductor, and Jennifer Koh, violin

New Work for Violin and Piano
To be recorded in Vienna, Austria, November 2010 Supporting international performances will follow
Christian Scholl, violin, and Eduard Kutrowatz, piano
More on Compositions

Sound Design

John Adams: Nixon in China
The Metropolitan Opera, New York, February 2011
Directed by Peter Sellars/John Adams, conductor

John Adams: The Death of Klinghoffer
English National Opera, London, September 2011