Johnmark In Performance
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John Mark Harris plays an extensive range of keyboard music from the Renaissance to the present day. The Boston Globe referred to his performance of works by Scott Joplin as “forceful…finely shaded”; the Edinburgh Scotsman called his recital at Reid Hall, featuring Charles Ives’ monumental Concord Sonata, a “stunning performance”; andante.com cited his “exquisite touch and sensitivity” in a performance of the music of Cage; and his performance Xenakis’ Evryali was hailed as “astonishing” by the 20th Century Music Journal.
Debussy’s “The Engulphed Cathedral”
Harris has appeared as soloist (piano and harpsichord) at the Salzburg, Berlin, and Donaueschingen festivals with the Southwest German Radio Symphony and the Berlin Symphony, in performances of Czernowin’s Maim Gvim, Maim Zarim, for quintet, orchestra, and live electronics. The Donaueschingen performance is available on col lengo, and the Berlin performance is to be released on Mode Recordings.
Chopin Etudes, Op. 25, Nos. 1 (Aeolian Harp) and 2
At the Poznan, Poland festival “Ameryka Na Zamku: A Celebration of American Culture”, Harris played two recitals of American works at the Palace of Culture under sponsorship of the Polish-American Embassy. Other performances include an appearance as soloist with “red fish, blue fish” at the L.A. Philharmonic’s Green Umbrella Series; a solo recital at Greenwich House in New York, sponsored by the Abby Whiteside Foundation; Summer Fest La Jolla; the Summer Institute for Contemporary Piano Performance in Boston; and the Festival Internacional de Historia de la Mùsica in Mexico.
Cowell’s “The Harp of Life” performed on the special Bosendorfer Imperial Grand piano
Harris’ recording of Xenakis’ Oophaa, for harpsichord and percussion, is available on Mode Recordings. The Concerto After Rachmaninoff for piano and orchestra, composed by David Cope with the computer program Experiments in Musical Intelligence, is available on Centaur.
Harris holds degrees in performance from the University of California at San Diego (D.M.A), the New England Conservatory (M.M), and the University of South Florida (B.M.). He has received additional sponsorship for performance and study from Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice, the City of Poznan and the Poznan Supercomputing Center, the Abby Whiteside Foundation, theYvar Mikhashoff Trust for New Music, and the Hillsborough County Arts Council.
John Mark Harris plays an extensive range of keyboard music from the Renaissance to the present day. The Boston Globe referred to his performance of works by Scott Joplin as “forceful…finely shaded”; the Edinburgh Scotsman called his recital at Reid Hall, featuring Charles Ives’ monumental Concord Sonata, a “stunning performance”; andante.com cited his “exquisite touch and sensitivity” in a performance of the music of Cage; and his performance Xenakis’ Evryali was hailed as “astonishing” by the 20th Century Music Journal.