Discipline: Music Composition

Mark Behm

Discipline: Music Composition
Region: San Francisco, CA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1983
Mark Behm is an American composer specializing in chamber music and solo piano works. Behm studied composition at the Univeristy of Illinois under the guidance of Ben Johnston, Scott Wyatt, Herbert Brün, and Salvatore Martirano. Behm lists his influences to be American composers Charles Ives and Elliot Carter, the Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu, and the European composers Gyorgy Ligeti, Witold Lutoslawski, Roberto Gerhard, and Pierre Boulez.

Studios

Irving Fine

Mark Behm worked in the Irving Fine studio.

Youngstown Studio was given to MacDowell by friends of Miss Myra McKeown in Youngstown, OH, where she promoted both art and music. It was renamed Irving Fine Studio in 1972 in honor of Irving Fine, a distinguished composer, conductor, and teacher who was a MacDowell Fellow during the 1940s and 1950s. The simple interior of the studio…

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