{"id":113,"date":"2011-07-22T21:18:30","date_gmt":"2011-07-22T21:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markgustavson.com\/blog\/?page_id=113"},"modified":"2022-01-30T17:24:08","modified_gmt":"2022-01-30T22:24:08","slug":"mark-gustavson","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.markgustavson.com\/blog\/mark-gustavson\/","title":{"rendered":"About Mark Gustavson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.markgustavson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/150726834_10157729215665776_3918734919947126243_o-773x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"Mark Gustavson head shot\" class=\"wp-image-1641\" width=\"387\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.markgustavson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/150726834_10157729215665776_3918734919947126243_o-773x1024.jpeg 773w, https:\/\/www.markgustavson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/150726834_10157729215665776_3918734919947126243_o-227x300.jpeg 227w, https:\/\/www.markgustavson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/150726834_10157729215665776_3918734919947126243_o-768x1017.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.markgustavson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/150726834_10157729215665776_3918734919947126243_o-1160x1536.jpeg 1160w, https:\/\/www.markgustavson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/150726834_10157729215665776_3918734919947126243_o.jpeg 1232w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 387px) 100vw, 387px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Charles Ives once wrote, &#8220;Sound is only 10% of music.&#8221; I would like <em>Mark Gustavson is Sounding<\/em> to probe my musical path and the other 90% that is not sound.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #444444; font-family: helvetica, arial: 16px; line-height: 24px;\">Mark Gustavson is a composer, teaches at universities, and performs in and around New York City.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #444444; font-family: helvetica,arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;\">Honors, Commissions &amp; Awards<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ascap.com\/\">ASCAP<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmi.com\/genres\/classical\/\">BMI<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arts.illinois.gov\/\">Illinois Arts Council Grant<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/coplandfund.org\/\">Aaron Copland Fund for Music<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/ditsonfund.org\/\">Alice M. Ditson Fund<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/artsandletters.org\/\">American Academy of Arts and Letters<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joseph_H._Bearns_Prize\">Bearns Prize<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyys.org\/programs\/first-music.html\">First Music<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/frommfoundation.fas.harvard.edu\/\">Fromm Foundation<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.koussevitzky.org\/\">Serge Koussevitzky Music Foundation<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/us.fulbrightonline.org\/\">Fulbright Fellowship<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bso.org\/tanglewood\/\">Leonard Bernstein Fellowship from Tanglewood<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Critical Acclaim<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;new and substantial&#8230;Mark Gustavson\u2019s \u2018Fool\u2019s Journey\u2019 acted out the iconography of tarot cards&#8230;<br \/>-New York Times<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;the form was ingenious.<br \/>-Boston Globe<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Precisely this balance and contrast of intimacy and wildness, of contemplation and sweeping gestures, of mystery and forcefulness, gives a sense of vision and completeness to this rich work.<br \/>-Piano Quarterly<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the brief intricate second movement showed the strong potential of the composer&#8230;<br \/>-Chicago Sun Times<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;an adroitly constructed compendium of tantalizing rhythmic variations.<br \/>-Chicago Tribune<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Visit&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.markgustavson.com\">markgustavson.com<\/a>&nbsp;for information about his music, including audio samples.<\/p>\n\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Charles Ives once wrote, &#8220;Sound is only 10% of music.&#8221; I would like Mark Gustavson is Sounding to probe my musical path and the other 90% that is not sound.&nbsp; Mark Gustavson is a composer, teaches at universities, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markgustavson.com\/blog\/mark-gustavson\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-113","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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