About
Marcus Karl Maroney
Marcus Karl Maroney studied composition and horn at The University of Texas at Austin and Yale School of Music. His principal composition teachers were Joseph Schwantner, Ned Rorem and Joan Tower . In 1999, he received a fellowship to the Tanglewood Music Center, the First Hearing award from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and an ASCAP/Morton Gould Young Composer’s award. Other awards and fellowships followed, including: a Charles Ives Scholarship from The American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Music 2000 Prize from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, further awards from ASCAP, two residencies at the Copland House, and consecutive Woods Chandler Memorial awards from Yale University.
Commissions have come from such organizations and individuals as River Oaks Chamber Orchestra, eighth blackbird, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, The Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Timothy McAllister, the Moores School Percussion Ensemble, the Texas Music Festival, and the Deer Valley Music Festival. His works have been recorded on the Innova, Albany, Centaur, and Blue Griffin labels, and are published by TrevCo, Seconda Prattica, and Ever-Fixed Music.
Marcus served on the faculty of the Yale School of Music from 2002-2004. He is currently Associate Professor of Music at the University of Houston’s Moores School of Music, where he has taught since 2005.
His academic pursuits include research on the music and life of Swiss composer Frank Martin, for which he was awarded a grant from the University of Houston for residency at the Paul Sacher Stiftung in Basel. He is on the Artistic Board of Musiqa, Houston's composer-led new music presenting group. In addition to composing, Marcus and his husband are wine connoisseurs, rescue dog fathers, and travel enthusiasts.