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Composer website: https://www.marcmarder.com/
Marc Marder, native New Yorker, lives in Paris. He studied the double bass with Alvin Brehm and theory with Robert Levin in the first graduating class of the State University of New York College at Purchase (1976) and began playing professionally at the Marlboro Chamber Music Festival in Vermont (1975-1978) at the invitation of it's founder and director, Rudolf Serkin, the Casals Festival Orchestra in Mexico City, and as principal bass with the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra in New York City. Pierre Boulez brought him to Paris in 1978 as bass soloist with his newly-founded Ensemble Intercontemporain. He was a member of the French National Orchestra under Leonard Bernstein and Lorin Maazel before Gilbert Amy appointed him double bass professor at the National Superior Conservatory in Lyon (1984-1993).
While continuing his chamber and solo career Marder began composing. He has scored over a hundred movies, creates incidental music for the stage and composes for the concert hall. In 1991, he won the Deutsche Schallplattenpreis for his score for Charles Lane’s silent feature Sidewalk Stories. His films have been in the official selection at the Cannes Festival eight times; seven of those with Cambodian director Rithy Panh, for whom he has composed for all of his 21 films. The Missing Picture won the Certain Regard prize and was nominated for an Oscar in 2013. For this score he was awarded the Sacem-France Musique Prize ; a commission to compose for large orchestra. His Symphony N° 1 (Pièces à Conviction) was premiered in 2015 by the Philharmonic Orchestra at the French Radio. His book of drawings in lithography entitled While You Were Out is in the permanent collection of the Moma (New York) and the State Library in Dresden.
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