Mark Menzies
Residing in the United States since 1991, Mark Menzies has established an important, world-wide reputation as a violist and violinist. He has been described in a Los Angeles Times review, as an 'extraordinary musician' and a 'riveting violinist.' His career as a viola and violin virtuoso, chamber musician and conductor and advocate of contemporary music, has seen performances in Europe, Brazil, Mexico, Australia, Japan, New Zealand and across the United States, including a series of appearances at New York's Carnegie Hall.
Mark Menzies has a considerable reputation as a chamber music performer. In addition to
being a member of the Formalist Quartet as violinist and violist there are further chamber music recordings featuring Mark Menzies including Process and Passion, a Pogus label release of chamber music by Roger Reynolds, as well as the world premiere recording of ...above earth's shadow a chamber-scale violin concerto by Michael Finnissy that will be released on vinyl in 2013.
Mark Menzies is currently viola and violin professor at the California Institute of the Arts where he also coordinates their chamber orchestra, new music ensembles and conducting studies. Over the last six seasons, he has designed and performed a significant role in CalArts New Century Players’ concerts at redcat, CalArt’s downtown theater as part of the Disney Hall complex; a highlight was in 2011, where a 5-concert festival of Sofia Gubaidulina’s music–in her presence–where, as one critic described the final concert, ‘...the building tension paid off
with a huge reward in the closing full orchestra performance of Gubaidulina’s violin concerto Offertorium with soloist Mark Menzies and the full force of the CalArts Orchestra’.
Mark Menzies has a considerable reputation as a chamber music performer. In addition to
being a member of the Formalist Quartet as violinist and violist there are further chamber music recordings featuring Mark Menzies including Process and Passion, a Pogus label release of chamber music by Roger Reynolds, as well as the world premiere recording of ...above earth's shadow a chamber-scale violin concerto by Michael Finnissy that will be released on vinyl in 2013.
Mark Menzies is currently viola and violin professor at the California Institute of the Arts where he also coordinates their chamber orchestra, new music ensembles and conducting studies. Over the last six seasons, he has designed and performed a significant role in CalArts New Century Players’ concerts at redcat, CalArt’s downtown theater as part of the Disney Hall complex; a highlight was in 2011, where a 5-concert festival of Sofia Gubaidulina’s music–in her presence–where, as one critic described the final concert, ‘...the building tension paid off
with a huge reward in the closing full orchestra performance of Gubaidulina’s violin concerto Offertorium with soloist Mark Menzies and the full force of the CalArts Orchestra’.