Marc Yeats

Marc is a composer, landscape painter, artist-researcher, writer and poet. His practice transforms compositions into paintings, his paintings into compositions, and both into poetry, with each art form influencing developments and approaches in the other. In his book, Music, Painting, Landscape and Me (Vision Edition), Marc expands upon the immediacy of engagement with his compositions and paintings and what these artworks tell us, offering further understanding and dialogue concerning their interrelation. What does being Marc's patron look like? Marc gives patrons a close-up of his unique dual creative worlds by sharing personal video diaries and digital postcards, often using rural and coastal Dorset and Somerset as his backdrop. All of Marc’s work interprets his experiences of walking and landscape exploration. Through Marc’s stories, patrons will get a unique insight into how these transformations and relationships form the foundation of his compositional practice. Supporting a composer on Music Patron gives you a first-hand perspective on the many elements within the creative process and an understanding of the authentic journey of a composer. You can learn more about what it’s like to be a patron here. Biography Marc is one of the UK’s leading contemporary composers with his works having been performed by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Hallé Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra and Gewandhaus Radio Orchestra with broadcasts on BBC Radio 3 and stations across Europe, Asia and Australasia. Described by the late Peter Maxwell Davies as “breathtakingly original” and Professor Stephen Davismoon as “one of the most prolific and influential composers and creative artists of his generation in the UK”. Marc’s music explores transduction, complex sonic, perceptual, asynchronous, polytemporal and spatial relationships, sonic flux, contextual, harmonic and temporal ambiguities, polarised intensities and a visceral joy of sound. Marc Yeats is a Doctor of Philosophy (music composition practice-led). Composers Edition and Alexander Street Press publish his music. Vision Edition publishes his literary works. The John Davies Gallery, Morten-in-Marsh, represents his paintings.  Explore and read Marc's recent Composer in the Spotlight profile. Listen to 'the unimportance of events' (2020)