Mark-Andreas Schlingensiepen

Born in Düsseldorf in 1956, died in 2026 shortly after his 70th birthday; Mark-Andreas Schlingensiepen was a conductor and composer. From 1976 to 1983 he studied at the Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf, where the professor of composition Günther Becker was a formative influence on him and where he himself later taught for twenty years. He was a co-founder of the notabu.ensemble neue musik and from 1989 its artistic director; in 1992 the ensemble became independent. From 1984 he worked with the Kammerorchester der Jungen Deutschen Philharmonie, the Mozarteumorchester Salzburg, the basel sinfonietta, the Klangforum Wien and the Wiener Kammerorchester, among others. In 1988 he received the Förderpreis des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen und der Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf. He composed on commission from the Goethe-Institut Paris and the Berliner Festspiele and accompanied silent films live; his recording of the music for Eisenstein’s “Battleship Potemkin” received the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik. In 1996 he conducted notabu.ensemble neue musik plays works by Günther Becker for Cybele.