Turnage, Mark-Anthony (1960– )

English composer. He studied at the Royal College of Music with Oliver Knussen 1974–78, and with Henze and Schuller at Tanglewood in Philadelphia. His music admits a wide range of influences, including popular elements. His opera Greek, performed at Munich and Edinburgh in 1988, was a major success, and his other works include a saxophone concerto (1993), and Three Screaming Popes (1989), for orchestra.

He was composer-in-association with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra 1989–93; and was featured composer at the 1986 Bath Festival and the 1987 Glasgow Musica Viva.

Works Opera Greek (1988).

Orchestral Night Dances (1982) and Kind of Blue (1982); Ekaya (1984), Three Screaming Popes (1989), Momentum (1991), Drowned Out (1993); saxophone concerto Your Rockaby (1993).

Chamber Let us Sleep Now for chamber orchestra (1979–82); After Dark for wind quintet and string quintet (1983); Lament for a Hanging Man for soprano and ensemble (1983); On all Fours for ensemble (1985); One Hand in Brooklyn Heights for 16 mixed voices, Release for eight players (1987); Kai for cello and ensemble (1990); Are you sure? for string quartet (1991); Leaving for soloists, chorus, and ensemble (1991); Set To for brass ensemble (1992); Blood on the Floor for ensemble (1994).