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 The NCO has premiered four works J. Mark Scearce—This Thread (2004), Endymion’s Sleep (1996), Anima Mundi (2003), and the ballet Ouroboros (2002, co-commissioned and performed with the Nashville Ballet). Endymion’s Sleep was recorded by the NCO for their debut on Warner Brothers Records, titled Conversations In Silence. Dr. Scearce is currently Director of Music at North Carolina State University in Raleigh where he oversees a department that services nearly 2000 students through eighteen ensembles in an overall student population of 30,000. He is only the seventh director in the Music Department’s eighty-year history. The composer of sixty instrumental works and over a hundred text settings, Dr. Scearce is the author of ten orchestral works, seven choral, two band, two operas and two ballets. Published and recorded by Delos, Capstone, Centaur and Warner Brothers, his music has won four national competitions and been performed across North America as well as in Europe, Asia, and the Pacific. Among his many honors and awards are those from the National Association of Composers, the National Conference of the Society of Composers, the North Carolina Arts Council, the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, and the American Music Center. |
