Mark Engebretson (b. 1964) is Assistant Professor of Composition and Electronic Music at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. His compositions have been presented at festivals such as ICMC (International Computer Music Conference), Bowling Green Festival of New Music and Art, Third Practice Festival, Wien Modern (Vienna), Gaida Festival (Vilnius, Lithuania), Sonoimagenes (Buenos Aires) Hörgänge Festival (Vienna), Ny Musikk (Bergen, Norway), Indiana State University New Music Festival (Terre Haute, Indiana), the Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival, ISCM Festivals (Tirana, Albania and Baku, Azerbaijan), the UNCG New Music Festival and World Saxophone Congresses (Pesaro, Italy, Montreal, Canada, Minneapolis, Minnesota and Ljubljana, Slovenia). 

Recent performances include premieres by UNCG’s EastWind Ensemble at Carnegie Hall, the SUNY Fredonia Wind Ensemble at a College Band Director’s National Organization (CBDNA) regional conference, the Wroclaw (Poland) Philharmonic Orchestra, a presentation by the Jacksonville Symphony and a three-night, sold out engagement featuring Winter Ashes, with dance and video by John Gamble.  Since it’s completion in January 2006, SaxMax for saxophone and interactive electronics has received eleven performances worldwide.

Engebretson lived for five years as a freelance composer and performer in Stockholm and Vienna, earning numerous commissions from official funding organizations, including STIM (Sweden) and the Austrian Ministry of Culture. In the U.S., he has received awards from Fulbright, the American Composers Forum Composers Commissioning Program, the Composers Assistance Program of the American Music Center, UNCG, the Buffalo Arts Council, SUNY Fredonia, ASCAP and Extension Works in Boston.

She Sings, She Screams for alto saxophone and digital media has been performed countless times worldwide, and has been released on three commercial compact disc recordings, two of which are on the Innova label. Other works on CD include Nesseln (Arizona University Recordings American’s Millennium Tribute to Adolphe Sax, Volume VIII, AUR CD 3121); Duo Concertante (recorded twice, both due for release soon); and Events (to be included on FEMF vol. 2 proceedings disc).  A composer-feature disc of chamber music is due out soon, also on Innova.

Dr. Engebretson taught composition at the University of Florida, music theory at the SUNY Fredonia and 20^th-century music history at the Eastman School of Music. He studied at the University of Minnesota (graduating Summa cum Laude), the Conservatoire de Bordeaux (as a Fulbright Scholar), and Northwestern University, where he received the Doctor of Music degree.  At Northwestern he studied composition with M. William Karlins, Pauline Oliveros, Marta Ptaszynska, Michael Pisaro, Stephen Syverud and Jay Alan Yim and saxophone with Frederick Hemke. His teachers in France were Michel Fuste-Lambezat and Jean-Marie Londeix.