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.

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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.

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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. 

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Recent updates from Marc

28 January 2025

🔒 Music and Painting Update January 2025

Happy New Year! My news is in the video. I hope you enjoy it. As ever, thank you for your

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11 October 2024

🔒 October Update

Books, harpsichord music and more!

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29 July 2024

🔒 Exclusive News for Patrons

Some news. I’m pleased about this. Take a look 🙂

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4 June 2024

🔒 Writing Poetry :: Writing Music

Hello Patrons

Welcome to this short video where I talk about the connection between writing poetry and composi...

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10 May 2024

🔒 Video montage of my time at Tectonics in Glasgow w...

Enjoy this Patron-only video montage of my time at Tectonics in Glasgow with the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

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27 April 2024

🔒 Patron Only Exclusive Photographic and Music Video...

Hello Patrons. I’m sharing a video I made several years ago as an exclusive preview before its public release o...

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13 December 2023

🔒 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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19 August 2023

🔒 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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19 June 2023

🔒 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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23 April 2023

🔒 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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9 December 2022

🔒 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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30 November 2022

🔒 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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30 September 2022

🔒 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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23 July 2022

🔒 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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13 June 2022

🔒 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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26 April 2022

🔒 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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26 April 2022

🔒 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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26 April 2022

🔒 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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26 April 2022

🔒 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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