• Name: Mark-Anthony Turnage
• Birthday: 06/10/1960
• Birth Place: Grays, Essex
• Period: Contemporary
• Genre: Classical

Title	Release
Scorched W	2004
Evening Songs for orchestra W	2004
From the Wreckage, concerto for trumpet & orchestra	2005
Scherzoid, for orchestra W	2005
When I Woke, for baritone & chamber orchestra W	2004
(2) Yet Another Set To, for trombone & orchestra W	2005
A Quick Blast, for orchestra	2006
Another Set To, for trombone & orchestra W	2002
Baudelaire Songs (2), for soprano & 7 instruments	2004
(2) Bellamy, for 2 voices & harp	2008
Blood On The Floor, for brass, reeds, drum kit & modern ensemble (complete) W	1996
Blood on the Floor: Blood on the Floor WA	1996
Blood on the Floor: Crackdown WA	1996
Blood on the Floor: Cut Up WA	1996
(2) Blood on the Floor: Dispelling the Fears WA	1996
Blood on the Floor: Elegy for Andy WA	1996
Blood on the Floor: Junior Addict WA	1996
Blood on the Floor: Needles WA	1996
Blood on the Floor: Shout WA	1996
Blood on the Floor: Sweet and Decay WA	1996
Cantilena, for oboe & string quartet	2004
(3) Ceres, for orchestra	2006
Dispelling the Fears, double trumpet concerto WA	1996
(3) Drowned Out	1994
Eulogy, for viola & 8 instruments	2004
Four-Horned Fandango, for 4 horns & orchestra WA	2002
Fractured Lines, double percussion concerto on a tune by Peter Erskine WA	2002
From All Sides, for 8 trumpets	2006
Greek, opera WA	1992
Hidden Love Song, for soprano saxophone & chamber orchestra WA	2006
(2) Kai	1993
Lament for a Hanging Man WA	1994
(2) Momentum for orchestra	1993
(2) Night Dances, for chamber group & orchestra WA	1996
(2) On All Fours WA	1994
Ophelia's Lament	2000
Release WA	1994
Sarabande WA	1994
Set To, for brass	2003
Silent Cities (revised version), variants surrounding a tune by John Scofield, for orchestra WA	2002
Sleep on..., for cello & piano	1992
Slide Stride, for piano & string quartet	2004
Snapshots, for orchestra	2002
Some Days, for mezzo-soprano & orchestra (or orchestra) WA	1997
(2) The Silver Tassie, opera WA
The Torn Fields, song cycle for voice & orchestra WA	2007
(2) This Silence, for octet	2004
(6) Three Screaming Popes for large orchestra (After Francis Bacon)	1992
True Life Stories, for solo piano	2004
Twice Through the Heart, dramatic scene for voice & orchestra WA	2007
Vocalises (2), for cello & piano	2004

Best described as eclectic, Turnage's highly energetic style is infused with influences from jazz , rock, and European modernism. His output includes symphonic, chamber, and operatic works, all of which demonstrate a keen sense of drama, and an ability to clarify the most complex of textures. He is best known for his opera , Greek, which has received frequent productions, including one televised by the BBC.

Born in Essex in 1960, Turnage studied at the Royal College of Music -- most notably with Oliver Knussen -- and then at Tanglewood with Gunther Schuller and Hans Werner Henze. Henze's influence led to an opera commission for the 1988 Munich Biennale. The result of that commission, Greek -- based on Steven Berkoff's incendiary play of the same title -- was an unqualified success, and it established Turnage on the international scene. In October 1989, Turnage began a lasting relationship with the City of Birmingham Symphony and its conductor, Simon Rattle, with the premiere of his Three Screaming Popes. After a four-year term as Composer in Association with Birmingham, Turnage took on a similar role at the English National Opera, where he also became Artistic Consultant to their Contemporary Opera Studio. 1996 saw the London premiere of his jazz -inspired Blood on the Floor by Ensemble Modern, and in 1997 his works, Twice Through the Heart and The Country of the Blind, opened the 50th Anniversary Aldeburgh Festival. ~ Allen Schrott, All Music Guide