Discipline: Music Composition

J. Mark Scearce

Discipline: Music Composition
Region: Portland, ME
MacDowell Fellowships: 2001
J. Mark Scearce is an American composer known for his musical settings of more than 200 texts by 40 poets — from art songs to operas to works for chorus and orchestra. Scearce’s catalogue of music compositions totals nearly a thousand performances of 60 works, including seven commercial recordings on the Delos, Warner Bros, Capstone, Centaur, Albany, and Equilibrium labels.