Mark Baechle is an Emmy Award-winning film composer. His music can be heard in feature films, documentaries, and TV shows. His most recent film work includes Last Appeal, the feature-length documentary Clemente, and the four-part series Vow of Silence: The Assassination of Annie Mae. Mark also frequently works as an orchestrator with some of the most well-known film composers. He has orchestrated more than fifty films and countless episodes of TV and streaming. Among his many credits are Judas and the Black Messiah, Across the Spider-Verse, The Great, and Andor.
Mark’s concert, chamber, and vocal music has been played in the US as well as his native Switzerland (New York Festival of Song, Basel Symphony Orchestra, Tonhalle Orchestra Zürich). He is a faculty member and artist-in-residence at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.
Of We Are Here (Only For a Little While), written for Ahn Trio Ensemble, Mark explains it is “an inward look… To switch off, unplug, and slow down time which is more and more difficult with all the distractions that we’re surrounded with. By focusing on music that is deliberately slow, simple, and free of ornaments, our mind can get into a kind of pure state. We Are Here (Only For a Little While) kind of expresses that feeling of time being precious in two ways: Life is fleeting and we have to stop and appreciate it deliberately (we are here); taking the time to focus and listen to these short pieces is a gift (only for a little while).”
September 26 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
The Ahn Trio with James Moore: The Art of Collaboration: Sting, Jobim and Baechle