The French composer Mark Andre was born in Paris in 1964. He studied at the Conservatoire Royal de Musique in Brussels and finished his studies at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris in composition, counterpoint, harmony and analysis with distinction. A scholarship from the French Foreign Ministry allowed him to study at the Hochschule für Musik Stuttgart from 1994 to 1997 with Helmut Lachenmann with whom he also took his diploma in composition and hasbeen collaborating since. He also took masterclasses with Wolfgang Rihm and Salvatore Sciarrino. Mark Andre received a scholarship at the Akademie Schloß Solitude in Stuttgart in 1995/96 and, supported by a scholarship of the Heinrich-Strobel Foundation, he studied electronic music with André Richard. Since 1997 Mark Andre has taught counterpoint and instrumentation at the Conservatoire National de Région de Strasbourg.

Mark Andre has been commissioned by international festivals such as the Donaueschinger Musiktage and the Internationale Ferienkurse Darmstadt, broadcasting corporations such as Radio France and theSüdwestrundfunk, as well as renowned ensembles such as the Ensemble Modern, the ensemble recherche and the Ensemble InterContemporain. In 2004 Mark Andre created for the Music Biennale Munich and the Staatstheater Mainz the ‘Music Theatre Passion’ ... 22, 13..., based on the Revelations of St John.

Mark Andre is one of the most interesting composers of his generation and has received numerous awards and prizes, among them the Kranichsteiner Musikpreis, first prizes in the Winterthur and Stuttgart Competitions for Composition, the Rome Award, the Composition Price of Opera Frankfurt and the Ernst-von-Siemens Grant-in-Aid. During the Kunstfest Weimar in 2006 Mark Andre was awarded the prize of the Christoph and Stephan Kaske Foundation. C.F. Peters publishes ni for chamber ensemble which received its world première by the ensemble musikfabrik (Rupert Huber, conductor) in Cologne in October 2006.