Mark Wingate: biography
Mark Wingate (Ithaca, New York, USA, 1954)
• residence: Tallahassee, Florida, USA
• composer
Mark Wingate was born in 1954 in Ithaca, New York. He received his Bachelor of Music degree from Berklee College of Music in Boston where he studied composition, synthesis, and jazz improvisation. He spent some years as a free-lance jazz guitarist in the New England area before returning to graduate school in 1987. He entered the doctoral program in composition at the University of Texas in 1991, where his teachers have included Russell Pinkston, Morton Subotnick, and Stephen Montague among others. He was awarded a fellowship in electroacoustic music from the United States Fulbright Commission in 1993-94, during which time he was a visiting composer at EMS (Studio for Electro-Acoustic Music in Sweden) in Stockholm. Wingate’s music has been performed widely at international festivals and has been honored by the Bourges Competition, Prix Ars Electronica, the National Endowment for the Arts (US), and the Stockholm Electronic Arts Award. Since 1996, he has been composing and teaching electroacoustic music in Austin, Texas.
Mark Wingate
