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Marc Yeats is a British composer, abstract landscape painter, writer, poet, and artistic practice researcher. His work as a painter and composer is closely linked to techniques developed over many years, with compositions influencing new approaches to painting and techniques in painting influencing musical development. Although interested in surfaces represented in sound, colour, form, and texture, his work is further influenced by a fascination with layering, geology, erosion, landscapes, and place-specific resonance and its manifestation and embodiment in his work. Understanding, strengthening, and researching this self-referential relationship remains a life-long challenge and passion and sits at the heart of Marc’s work.

Yeats’s creative output is diverse, spanning music, painting, and literature. His recent Collected Poems Volume 1 (2005-2024) and Timecode-Supported Polytemporal Music: What It Is and How to Write It (November 2025), published by Vision Edition, are a testament to his versatility. As a researcher, his book Music, Painting, Landscape, and Me (April 2024, Vision Edition) delves into the deep interconnection between his roles as composer and painter, examining media, landscape, philosophy, neurology, perception, interpretation, walking and embodiment.

The John Davies Gallery in Moreton-in-Marsh represents his paintings, while his music is published by Composers Edition and available through Alexander Street Press libraries. His compositions have been performed by leading orchestras, ensembles, and soloists worldwide, including by the BBC Philharmonic with I See Blue (1995) and PAGAN II (1997), and most recently the unimportance of events (2021) for 22 players with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. At Tectonics Glasgow 2024, this time with the full orchestra, his spatialised polytemporal orchestral work ‘a point in the landscape’ was also featured and broadcast on BBC Radio 3.

Other commissions include the round and square art of memory (1999), a piano concerto for the BBC Philharmonic; My Blood is as Red as Yours (2008) for the Hallé Orchestra to mark World Aids Day; the choral piece sturzstrom (2012) for the Cultural Olympiad; and Forget-Me-Not (2016), a vocal installation on dementia commissioned by Yeovil District and Dorchester County Hospitals. His chamber and ensemble works are numerous and widely recognised.

Dr. Yeats has significantly advanced the study of polytemporal composition, presenting his research at institutions such as the University of Manchester, the University of Leeds, and the City University of New York. His AHRC-funded PhD research at the University of Leeds (2017-2021) focused on developing timecode-supported polytemporal composition methods, pushing the boundaries of how complex, unsynchronised musical structures can be performed without a conductor or unified pulse. His compositional method involves fully notated lines of material operating in different tempi, synchronised via mobile phone stopwatches and part-embedded timecodes. This technique enables performers to follow their temporal paths while maintaining structural coherence.

Marc’s innovative approach explores the balance between composer control and performer flexibility, yielding unpredictable yet recognisable results with each performance. His conductor-less, scoreless method allows musicians to interpret their tempi, using timecodes to navigate the music’s complex polytemporal structure. This pioneering method opens new possibilities for writing and performing multi-tempi orchestral music, enabling complex sonic relationships by managing indeterminacy.

Bernhard Philipp Eder
composer, conductor, orchestrator, arranger
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born 02.12.1984 in Vienna, Austria

1st price winner of the international composing competition "Salieri-heute" 2006
nominee BEST SCORE for "Daydreamer" at the Maverick Movie Awards 2015
nominee BEST MUSIC for "Edge of the Wood" at the largo Film Awards February 2017

composer - conductor - arranger/orchestrator

1. Magister artium - Degree for graduating in composition, January 2013 | University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Austria 
2. Magister artium - Degree for graduating in orchestral conducting, June 2015 | University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Austria 

former student at the University of Music & performing Arts Vienna, Austria
* former teachers (conducting MDW): Uros Lajovic, Simeon Pironkoff, Johannes Wildner 
* former teachers (composing MDW):  Michael Jarrell, Martin Lichtfuss, Reinhard Karger 
* former tutors (composing): Gerald Resch, Wladimir Pantchev, Herbert Ortmayr 

Participant of the ASCAP Filmscoring Workshop with Richard Bellis 2017

participant of several masterclasses and workshops (e.g. Sommerakademie Lilienfeld - organ with Karen de Pastel 2001-2008 | Hollywood Music Workshop Klosterneuburg, 2009 Donald Willams, 2010 Bruce Broughton, 2011 Blake Neely, 2012/2013 Conrad Pope)

Fall 2012: conducting workshop with Bertrand de Billy @ MDW 
Spring 2013: conducting workshop with Fabio Luisi @ MDW
August 2013: conducting master class with Naoki Sugiyama in Estonia
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conducted orchestras such as: ORF Radiosymphonie Orchester Wien, Pro Arte Orchester, Sinfonietta dell' Arte, Glaspärlimäng Sinfonietta, Kammerorchester Atout, Triple-A-Consort (Advanced Austrian Artists), tonzauber Studio Orchestra.

Orchestrations/Arrangements for Hollywood in Vienna, ORF Radiosymphonie Orchester Wien, Philharmonia Orchestra London, Opera Graz, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, exil-arte, Max Steiner Orchestra and many more.

Tuesdays with Stories-  a fun weekly pod hosted by NYC comedians Joe List and Mark Normand. Luckily, Joe and Mark are funny (thank God) and have an endless amount of funny stories. They meet every week to spin a few hilarious yarns, sometimes with comedian friends. Give it a listen and be their friend too.

The Ensemble intercontemporain is a music ensemble of 31 soloists dedicated to the performance and promotion of music from the 20th and 21st centuries.
For almost 40 years, this permanent ensemble of highly professional musicians has been performing a demanding repertoire of orchestral music in all its diverse forms. Under the artistic direction of Matthias Pintscher  they are united by a shared passion for new music. 


Philip Schuessler’s music explores uses of subtle, delicate timbres and dynamics through extended acoustic and electronic resources. He teaches music at Southeastern Louisiana University and is Assistant Director for New Orleans-based Versipel New Music.

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