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Price Music Center

NC State University

Raleigh, NC

27695

jmark_scearce@ncsu.edu

http://www.jmarkscearce.com

J. Mark Scearce is the Director of the Music Department at NC State. Prior appointments were on the music faculties of the Universities of Hawaii, North Texas, and Southern Maine, among others. With fifty active titles in his catalogue, including musical settings of more than a hundred and twenty texts, Scearce’s many works for orchestra, band, chorus, opera, chamber, and ballet have been performed throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and the Pacific. The recipient of five advanced degrees in music, philosophy and religion, including the doctorate in composition from Indiana University, Scearce has won six international music competitions and his music honored by the Wellesley Composers’ Conference, the June in Buffalo Festival, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, The MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Ucross, and the American Music Center. Scearce currently has seven works commercially available on compact disc on the Delos, Warner Bros, Capstone, Centaur, Albany, and Equilibrium labels, and on a Sony 4-channel SACD available online at frystreetquartet.com.

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Title	Ensemble Type	Composed	Duration	Media
Illuminations	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	2009	00:30:00
Guernica	Keyboard	2009	00:12:00
Ceremonies	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	2009	00:10:00
The 99 Beautiful Names of God	Keyboard	2008	01:11:00
Memoria a 3	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	2008	00:09:00
Antaeus	Orchestra	2007	00:20:00
God Picks Up the Reed-Flute World [Rumi]	Chorus, with or without Solo Voices	2005	00:10:00
Str Qt Nr 2: "Atlantis" [Hart Crane]	Voice, Solo or With Chamber or Jazz Ensemble	2004	00:25:00
An Equal Music [Donne]	Chorus, with or without Solo Voices	2003	00:03:00
Ecce Stella	Chorus, with or without Solo Voices	2003	00:10:00
Ouroboros	Orchestra	2003	00:25:00
This Thread [Toni Morrison]	Orchestra	2002	00:20:00
Be Anxious for Nothing	Chorus, with or without Solo Voices	2002	00:03:00
Six Songs from the Hopper Collection [Joseph Stanton]	Voice, Solo or With Chamber or Jazz Ensemble	2001	00:06:00
XL	Orchestra	2000	00:04:00
Magritte Variations [Joseph Stanton]	Voice, Solo or With Chamber or Jazz Ensemble	2000	00:08:00
String Quartet 1 (Y2K)	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	2000	00:20:00
The Piano Factory	Orchestra	1999	00:12:00
The Kreutzer Sonata	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1999	00:25:00
Kitty Hawk	Opera/Theater	1999	01:00:00
Cielo Azul [Lorca]	Chorus, with or without Solo Voices	1999	00:06:00
Anima Mundi	Chorus, with or without Solo Voices	1998	00:18:00
A Command Performance for the King of Tonga	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1998	00:05:00
Credo, Covenant & Canticle	Band	1998	00:08:00
American Triptych [Jane Kenyon]	Voice, Solo or With Chamber or Jazz Ensemble	1997	00:10:00
A Tree--a Rock--a Cloud	Opera/Theater	1997	00:30:00
Beat! Beat! Drums! [Whitman]	Chorus, with or without Solo Voices	1997	00:05:00
Three By the Roadside [Whitman]	Voice, Solo or With Chamber or Jazz Ensemble	1997	00:07:00
Back By the Roadside [Whitman]	Voice, Solo or With Chamber or Jazz Ensemble	1997	00:05:00
Four Thoughts By the Roadside [Whitman]	Voice, Solo or With Chamber or Jazz Ensemble	1997	00:05:00
Goodby, Goodby World [Thornton Wilder]	Voice, Solo or With Chamber or Jazz Ensemble	1996	00:03:00
35@35 [A.R. Ammons]	Voice, Solo or With Chamber or Jazz Ensemble	1996	00:25:00
Urban Primitive	Orchestra	1996	00:08:00
Endymion's Sleep	Orchestra	1996	00:06:00
The Night I Had Dinner with Jose Greco	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1996	00:07:00
The Shade of Orpheus [Ovid, trans Mandelbaum]	Voice, Solo or With Chamber or Jazz Ensemble	1995	00:18:00
Bird by Bird [A.R. Ammons]	Voice, Solo or With Chamber or Jazz Ensemble	1995	00:12:00
On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason	Chorus, with or without Solo Voices	1995	00:15:00
i thank You God for most this amazing [cummings]	Chorus, with or without Solo Voices	1994	00:05:00
nuance	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1994	00:16:00
Blue Sonata	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1994	00:11:00
Tribute	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1993	00:03:00
Canto IX	Band	1993	00:12:00
Field & Stream [Raymond Carver]	Chorus, with or without Solo Voices	1993	00:08:00
Benediction	Orchestra	1993	00:06:00
Estlin [cummings]	Voice, Solo or With Chamber or Jazz Ensemble	1992	00:20:00
A Christmas Memory	Orchestra	1991	00:10:00
squaring the circle	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1991	00:15:00
Gaea's Lament	Solo instrument, non-keyboard	1989	00:06:00
Four Quotations [John Ashbery]	Voice, Solo or With Chamber or Jazz Ensemble	1989	00:09:00
Mourning Songs [Michael J. Scearce]	Voice, Solo or With Chamber or Jazz Ensemble	1986	00:12:00
By the Roadside [Whitman]	Voice, Solo or With Chamber or Jazz Ensemble	1985	00:05:00
united [Bjorson, trans. Miller]	Voice, Solo or With Chamber or Jazz Ensemble	1984	00:04:00


The 99 Beautiful Names of God Albany	Release Year:2009 Performers:John Cheek, piano Notes:88 short movements for solo piano, 71'	PurchaseLink: WebSite:
Beethoven, Stravinsky, Rorem, Scearce Sony 4-channel SACD	Release Year:2005 Performers:Fry Street Quartet Notes:String Quartet 1 20'	PurchaseLink:http://frystreetquartet.com/recordings.php WebSite:
Shared Spaces Equilibrium	Release Year:2004 Performers:music faculty of the UNC School of the Arts Notes:A Command Performance for the King of Tonga 5'	PurchaseLink: WebSite:
Middle Voices Centaur	Release Year:2003 Performers:music faculty of UNC-Greensboro Notes:Magritte Variations 8'	PurchaseLink: WebSite:
It Won't Be the Same River Capstone	Release Year:2001 Performers:Mallarme Chamber Players Notes:American Triptych 12'	PurchaseLink: WebSite:
Conversations in Silence Warner Bros	Release Year:1997 Performers:Orchestra Nashville Notes:Endymion's Sleep 8'	PurchaseLink: WebSite:
Virtuoso Brass Delos	Release Year:1991 Performers:Chicago Brass Quintet Notes:Enchanted Forest Suite 10'	PurchaseLink: WebSite:

CURRENT POSITION

2004 -present Director of Music/Teaching Professor. NC State University.

Chief Administrator of Music Department

18 ensembles/2000 students on campus of 32,000.

EDUCATION

1993 D.M. in Composition. Minors in Theory and Horn. Indiana University.

1986 M.M. in Composition. Cognate in Conducting. Indiana University.

1983 B.A. in Music. Concentration in Theory. Northeast Missouri State University.

B.M. in Horn Performance.

B.A. in Philosophy and Religion

OTHER UNIVERSITY/ENSEMBLE AFFILIATIONS

Bowling Green State University, Assistant Director, New Music Festival

Duke University, Visiting Guest Composer

Fayetteville State University, Adjunct Faculty

Franklin and Marshall College, Visiting Guest Composer

Indiana University, Assistant Director, New Music Ensemble

Lenoir-Rhyne College, Composer-in-Residence

Nashville Chamber Orchestra, Composer-in-Residence

North Carolina State University, Composer-in-Residence

Saint Augustine's College, Adjunct Faculty

Shaw University, Adjunct Faculty

Truman State University, Visiting Guest Composer

University of Hawaii, Assistant Professor of Composition

University of North Texas, Visiting Assistant Professor of Composition

University of Southern Maine, Assistant Professor of Composition

Vanderbilt University, Visiting Guest Composer

Wake Chamber Players, Composer-in-Residence

Western Piedmont Symphony, Composer-in-Residence

HONORS

2009 First Prize, Raymond and Beverly Sackler Prize in Music Composition.

1999 Award Winner, North Carolina Arts Council Music Composition Fellowship.

1998 First Prize, Franklin and Marshall Mu Upsilon Sigma Band Composition Prize.

1997 Award Winner, Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts Artist Award.

1993 Award Winner, Moore Foundation First Triennial Opera Composition Prize.

1991 First Prize, Franklin and Marshall Christensen Prize for civic orchestra works.

1988 First Prize, NACUSA Tenth Annual Young Composers' Competition.

1982 First Prize, Chicago Brass Quintet Composition Contest.

RESIDENCIES

2008 Ucross. Residency in the artists’ colony outside Sheridan, WY.

2000 The MacDowell Colony. Residency in the artists' colony at Peterborough, NH.

1998 Yaddo. Residency in the artists' colony at Saratoga Springs, NY.

1997 Ernest Bloch Composers' Symposium. Seminars with Donald Erb.

1995 Atlantic Center for the Arts. Seminars with Donald Erb.

1989 June in Buffalo Festival. Seminars with Erb, Ferneyhough, Rands, Sollberger.

1987 Wellesley Composers' Conference. Seminars with Boykan, Imbrie, Davidovsky.