Marcus Rock

With a background in Film, Marcus began composing in 2018 and was subsequently accepted at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire (2020-24) to study composition at undergraduate level on a scholarship. He concluded his studies being awarded the RBC composition Prize and as the first student global ambassador for RBC. He has maintained an active schedule since his first academic year by going on to take part and write music for Britain's most prestigious composer programs and festivals, some of which are the Cheltenham Music Festival (2021,2022), Britten Pears Young Artist Programme (2022-23), The Aldeburgh Music Festival (2023), Norfolk and Norwich Music festival (2024) and the London Symphony Orchestra Panufnik Scheme (2023-24).

He's worked to cultivate relationships during his degree by collaborating and receiving multiple commissions from organisations and musicians such as BCMG, The Marian Consort, Choir and Organ gramophone UK, Fenella Humphreys, Mahan Esfahani, Quatuor Bozzini, and Onyx Brass among others. He also engages in mentoring work with younger generations, one example being with the wecompose scheme, and maintains international connections, having work performed and giving seminars on his work in China and South Korea. Preferring to eschew compositional labels, Marcus takes an open approach with his writing, searching for sounds regardless of their aesthetic differences to evoke something which speaks more to physiological experience than conceptual.