{"id":940,"date":"2016-05-02T13:31:07","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T13:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marc-yeats.co.uk\/blog\/?p=940"},"modified":"2016-11-03T12:09:54","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T12:09:54","slug":"awards-prizes-commissions-and-memberships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.marc-yeats.com\/blog\/awards-prizes-commissions-and-memberships\/","title":{"rendered":"Awards, Prizes Commissions and Memberships"},"content":{"rendered":"

Awards, Prizes, Commissions and Bursaries (selected)<\/strong>
\n1994 Hoy Summer School, SCO, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies \u2013 attendance bursary
\n1994 Scottish Arts Council Summer School and Travel Bursary.
\n1995 Scottish Arts Council Composer Bursary.
\n1995 Scottish Arts Council. Attendance fees for the Association of British Orchestras Conference.
\n1996 Scottish Arts Council Composer Bursary.
\n1997 Scottish Arts Council Composer Bursary.
\n1997 Commission \u2013 St Magnus Festival \u2013 25 minute orchestral piece for the SCO
\n1997 Hope Scott Trust Composer Bursary (for 3 years).
\n1997 Scottish Arts Council Commission for visual art ‘Resound’ project.
\n1997 Prize winner – Next Millennium International Composers Award, Japan.
\n1999 The Arts Trust of Scotland – travel expenses for Italian performance.
\n1999 Commission \u2013 BBC \u2013 32 minute orchestral work for the BBC Philharmonic and Kathryn Stott
\n1999 Commission \u2013 The London Sinfonietta \u2013 ensemble piece
\n2001 Commission \u2013 Kathryn Stott \u2013 solo work for saxophone
\n2001 Five Islands Project – Colour Songs: The National Lottery Access and Participation Scheme.
\n2001 Commission \u2013 Sarah Watts \u2013 solo work
\n2002 Commission \u2013 Hebridean Music Workshops SAC lottery funds \u2013 40 minute ensemble work
\n2002 Commission \u2013 Hebridean Music Workshops \u2013 SAC lottery funds \u2013 5 watercolour paintings
\n2002 Commission \u2013 ensemble piece \u2013 175 East, New Zealand
\n2003 Commission \u2013 Lonba, Argentina \u2013 ensemble piece
\n2004 Commission \u2013 An Tuireann \u2013 Stillness in movement \u2013 60\u201d ensemble piece
\n2004 HI~Arts \u2013 Artist\u2019s creative bursary
\n2005 Commission \u2013 Henri Bok \u2013 solo work
\n2005 Commission \u2013 Rotterdam Conservatorium \u2013 orchestral work
\n2005 First prize \u2013 international composing competition, WBCC, Rotterdam, Holland
\n2006 GO EVENTS \u2013 grant towards development of website music download facilities
\n2006 Hope Scott Trust – Funding towards the production costs of the new CD opera \u2013 Haar
\n2007 Commission \u2013 Scottish Clarinet Quartet \u2013 work for 4 bass clarinets and percussion
\n2007 Commission \u2013 Symposia \u2013 work for 4 instrumentalists and digital sound-track
\n2007 Commission \u2013 SCAW \u2013 new work for bass clarinet, piano and electronic sound-track
\n2007 Commission \u2013 Trio IAMA \u2013 new work for flute, cello and piano
\n2007 Scottish Arts Council \u2013 Professional Development Grant \u2013 developing new dance music.
\n2007 – 2009. An extensive list of commissions specifically referenced in Yeats\u2019 music biography.
\n2008 Hall\u00e9 Orchestra with My Blood is as Red as Yours for World Aids Day
\n2009 Arts Council England \u2013 Grants for the Arts \u2013 collaborative locomotive GPS music\/word fusion.
\n2009 Kokoro \u2013 commission, \u2018shadow and the moon\u2019 for sextet.
\n2009 BBC commission. rhema for harpsichord circa 10mins. In total.
\n2010 Announced as Composer-in-Association with Manchester Pride
\n2010 1 of 5 shortlisted composers with PRSF NMA (Turner Prize for music) with SATSYMPH
\n2011 Commissioned work for Consortium5 recorder quintet for 2011 \u2013 \u2018the bone eating snot flower\u2019
\n2011 New work \u2018crowded rooms\u2019 for 14 instrumentalists for Leeds University in March 2011
\n2011 Commissioned work for silent film with Ensemble Amorpha (amorpha_shorts) for 20112011 Commissioned work \u2018Eris\u2019 for flute and viola Manchester Pride Music Festival 2011
\n2011 Commissioned work for a cappella massed amateur choirs ‘sturzstrom’ for 2012 Cultural Olympiad in Dorset (Coastal Voices)
\n2011 Commissioned work SATSYMPH \u2013 on a theme of Herm\u00e9s
\n2011 Commissioned work \u2018TLOS\u2019 for violin, clarinet and piano – Elektrostatic Festival 2012
\n2011 Commissioned work \u2018Worship of the Oak\u2019 for Aquinas Piano trio and Manchester Pride Music Festival 2012
\n2012 Commissioned work \u2018the magical control of rain\u2019 for piano (Mark Spalding)
\n2012 Commissioned work ‘the need-fire’ string quartet for the Hillman Quartet and Corsham Festivals
\n2012 Commissioned work ‘black-bile’ for ensemble \u2013 for Thumb Ensemble
\n2012 Commissioned work ‘sanergia’ for MusicOrba Duo (piano four hands)
\n2012 Commissioned work ‘pathos’ (solo cello) for Antara Project
\n2012 Commissioned work ‘strange and artificial echo’ for solo quartertone alto flute for Carla Rees
\n2012 Commissioned work ‘quarter-sounds’ study in bass clarinet multiphonics for Sarah Watts
\n2012 Commissioned work ‘from manuscripts of moving song’ string quartet for the Bergersen Quartet
\n2013 Commissioned work ‘the shape distance’ mixed ensemble – Chamber Cartel US
\n2013 Commissioned work ‘through woods in riot’ brass quartet – Meridian Brass
\n2013 Commissioned work ‘corpuscular theory of light’ trio – Markus Wenninger
\n2013 Commissioned work ‘and cherries all black’ double bass and piano – Geert Callaert
\n2013 Commissioned work ‘lenten fires’ piano – Geert Callaert
\n2013 Commissioned work ‘the dog and the wolf’ mixed ensemble – We Are Wolfpack
\n2013 Commissioned work ‘invoco’ duo – Post-Haste Reed Duo – US
\n2013 Commissioned work ‘black root’ E flat clarinet – Markus Wenninger
\n2013 Commissioned work ‘a theft of cold moisture’ flute – Manchester Pride Classical Concert Series
\n2013 Commissioned work ‘hyran’ viola – Stephen Upshaw – UK
\n2013 Commissioned work ‘oros’ for 8 voices – Auditiv Vokal Dresden – Germany
\n2014 Commissioned work ‘vulgar gorgon’ rock ensemble – Clibber Jones Ensemble – US
\n2014 Commissioned work ‘sculptures in bright blue’ soprano and alto saxophone – KOEK Duo – US
\n2014 Commissioned work ‘a pathology of line’ bassoon and piano – Geert Callaert – Belgium
\n2014 Commissioned work ‘streaming’ alto flute – Carlton Vickers – US
\n2014 Commissioned work ‘new work’ piano, harp and 2 percussion – Chamber Cartel – US
\n2015 Commissioned work ‘observation 1 [ovington Down] String Quartet Composer-in-Residence to the Observatory- UK
\n2015 Commissioned work ‘observation 2 [oxey marsh] String Quartet Composer-in-Residence to the Observatory – UK
\n2015 Commissioned work ‘observation 1.5 [no man’s land] Trio for recorder, violin and cello – Sylvia Hinz and XelmYa Germany
\n2015 Commissioned work ‘the appointment of life’ – extended male voice, viola and percussion [1] – Carl Theimt Germany
\n2015 Commissioned work ‘observation 1.7 [longwood warren] Oboe, Flute and Violin – Ben Opie and Inventi Ensemble – AU
\n2015 Commissioned work ‘observation 1.7.5 Alto Flute, Bassoon and violin – Rarescale UK
\n2016 Commissioned work ‘william mumler’s spirit photography, piano – The Anatomy of Melancholy Crowd Funding Campaign – UK
\n2016 Commissioned work ‘burnt axon’, piano, Darinka Todorov – Serbia
\n2016 Commissioned work ‘Forget-Me-Not, vocal installation – Composer-in-Residence to Yeovil District and Dorchester County Hospitals – RefoundSound -UK
\n2016 Commissioned work ‘an uncomfortable condition’, flute and string quintet, La Cote Flute Festival – Switzerland
\n2016 Commissioned work ‘observation 6’, for piccolo, soprano saxophone, piano and percussion – Ensemble Suono Giallo – Italy and US
\n2016 Commissioned work ‘observation 7’ [gander down] for piccolo, oboe, trumpet, Horn, viola, double bass and percussion [1] – Homophonic Festival – AU
\n2016 Commissioned work ‘observation 4 [easton bevants] String Quartet Composer-in-Residence to the Observatory [extended series] – UK
\n2016 Commissioned work ‘observation 5 [perpendicular music] String Quartet Composer-in-Residence to the Observatory [extended series] – UK<\/p>\n

Membership and Affiliations<\/strong>
\n1993 – 1996 Member of the Skye and Lochalsh Arts Council.
\n1995 – Member of the Performing Right Society.
\n1995 – Member of Mechanical Copyright Protection Society.
\n1996 – Nominated to full membership of the Composers’ Guild of Great Britain.
\n1996 – 2005 Board member for An Tuireann Arts Centre.
\n1997 – Artistic Director for Skye and Lochalsh New Music Festival.
\n1998 – 2000 Vice Chairman for An Tuireann Arts Centre.
\n1998 – 2003 Member of the British Academy of Composers and Songwriters.
\n2000 – 2005 Chairman of the Board of Directors, An Tuireann Arts Centre.
\n2006 – 2007 Board member \u2013 HI~Arts
\n2007 – Advisor to the Board of An Tuireann Arts Centre
\n2009 – Board member of PVA MediaLab, Bridport, Dorset
\n2009 – 2012 Chair of PVA MediaLab, Bridport, Dorset
\n2011 – Chair of Reach Dorset – therapeutic arts activities for people with mental health issues.
\n2011 – Set up SATSYMPH LLP as a founding partner.
\n2011 – Composer-in-Residence to SATSYMPH
\n2012 – 2016 Chair of DIVAcontemporary – artist-led arts organisation based in Dorset specialising in sound
\n2013 – Composer-in-residence to Chamber Cartel [US]
\n2014 – Composer Curator with Sound and Music
\n2015 – Composer Advisory Board, Sound and Music
\n2015 – 2016 Composer-in-residence to The Observatory
\n2016 – Composer-in-residence to Yeovil District and Dorchester County Hospitals
\n2016 – Taken on for worldwide management by Noel Music<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Awards, Prizes, Commissions and Bursaries (selected) 1994 Hoy Summer School, SCO, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies \u2013 attendance bursary 1994 Scottish Arts Council Summer School and Travel Bursary. 1995 Scottish Arts Council Composer Bursary. 1995 Scottish Arts Council. Attendance fees for the Association of British Orchestras Conference. 1996 Scottish Arts Council Composer Bursary. 1997 Scottish Arts […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.marc-yeats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.marc-yeats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.marc-yeats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.marc-yeats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.marc-yeats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=940"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.marc-yeats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":997,"href":"http:\/\/www.marc-yeats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions\/997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.marc-yeats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.marc-yeats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.marc-yeats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}