Marc Yeats is a composer and visual artist. His uncompromising music has been performed, commissioned and broadcast around the world. He has worked with many distinguished performers, ensembles and musicians including Psappha, the London Sinfonietta, the Endymion Ensemble, Paragon Ensemble, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Hallé Orchestra, Tokyo City Philharmonic and Gewandhaus Radio Orchestra, among others.

Marc’s visual art has been exhibited and collected across the UK and abroad. He has paintings in the collections of several public galleries in Scotland including An Tobar, An Tuireann and The Pier Art Centre, Orkney. Marc is Artist-in-Residence at the Marburae Art Gallery, Maccelsfied, Cheshire for Summer 2012.

In April 2010, Marc was appointed Composer-in-Association with Manchester Pride. He also become a founding partner of SATSYMPH alongside poet, writer and context-aware media director and producer, Ralph Hoyte; and coder, composer and audio engineer Phill Phelps. SATSYMPH compose ‘context-aware soundworlds’ – located high quality contemporary soundscape experiences outside in the real world triggered by GPS signals.

Recent large commissions include: SATSYMPH’s on a theme of Hermes; an original work which fuses contemporary classical ensemble music and contemporary poetry in an entirely new and innovative way and has a truly unique method of delivery via smartphone apps. The music and words respond to location, to where the user is. It morphs, changes, according to what the user does. This is an entirely new music/poetry paradigm.

sturzstrom, a new choral work commissioned by Coastal Voices was part of an umbrella project that explored the Jurassic Coast with newly commissioned compositions. Linking music and earth sciences through the voice, the project aimed to stimulate coastal communities to examine the unique relationship with the geology and forces that shape their environment. Performances included the premiere, 300 feet underground in Beer Quarry Caves, Devon; Lighthouse Poole and the opening ceremony of the Olympic sailing events in Weymouth and Portland, Dorset in July 2012.