Marc Yeats

Marc is a composer, landscape painter and artist-researcher. His practice transforms compositions into paintings and his paintings into compositions, with each art form influencing developments and approaches in the other.

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 an authentic journey of a composer. You can find out 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 Philharmonic Orchestra, Hallé Orchestra, broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and stations across Europe, Asia and Australasia.

Described by 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 and polytemporal relationships, sonic flux, contextual, harmonic and temporal ambiguities, polarised intensities and a visceral joy of sound.

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Recent updates from Marc

🔒 Pre-Christmas Update.

Thanks for your continued support. It means a lot. As we come toward the close of 2023, I’d like to tell you wh...

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🔒 It’s been a long time: A video update

Dear Patrons, I thought it was about time I let you know what’s been going on over the past months

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🔒 Marc and the late Sir Peter Maxwell Davies

Listen to Sir Peter Maxwell Davies on BBC Hear and Now talking about Marc’s PAGAN II. From April 2000.

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🔒 It’s been a while . . .

Hello Patrons! It’s been a while, so here is a general update to tell you what’s up and down in my compos...

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🔒 The Music Patron Q&A

A series of interviews with our Music Patron composers talking about their musical inspirations and what life as a co...

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🔒 Pre-Christmas Update.

Welcome to my Pre-Christmas Update.

In this update I’m sharing a few music clips from my forthcoming Ban...

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🔒 A New Camera Setup for My 60th Birthday.

I will be updating with more directly music-related posts very soon, but in the meantime, there’s this!

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🔒 More Exciting Organ News

In this update, I talk about the initial stages of composing a new body of organ music for Thomas Mellan and where I&...

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🔒 International collaboration: Thomas Mellan and the...

In this update, I talk about my latest international collaboration with Boston-based Organ maestro and amazing all-ar...

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🔒 Music, Painting, Landscape and Me: An Autobiograph...

Back at my favourite local Beech tree, I’m talking about the Arts Council England DYCP funded book I’m cu...

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🔒 New Piano Piece and More on Creative Survival

Here, I present more detailed information about one of my current composition projects and again discuss the importan...

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🔒 New Projects and Patrons

In this video, I talk about a few of the new projects I’m currently working on, creative and financial survival...

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🔒 Welcome to Painting HQ

In this video, I give Patrons a mini-tour of my painting studio, the hub of my visual art activities and talk briefly...

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