Marc Tritschler

Marc is a pianist, music director, music supervisor, arranger and composer of music for the theatre.

He has worked in both the subsidised and commercial sector across Europe and internationally, and has extensive experience working across disciplines in a range of genres, with artists from a huge range of different backgrounds. As founder of the Berlin-based contemporary music label Testklang, Marc also has considerable knowledge and experience of the producing side of the industry.

Marc has just been appointed as Music Associate at the National Theatre.

In 2017 he has composed/music supervised for Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya at HOME theatre, Manchester. He also has completed work as Associate Music Director for the Fourth Islamic Solidarity Games in Baku, Azerbaijan. Since arriving in London in 2016 Marc has composed/music supervised for The Merchant of Venice for the Royal Shakespeare Company, and composed the music for both Ibsen’s Ghosts at HOME theatre, Manchester, and The Winter’s Tale at the National Theatre of Croatia. He was also the music director for both As You Like It and Complicité’s A Pacifist’s Guide to the War on Cancer at the National Theatre.

Before moving to the UK, Marc held a permanent conducting position as Deputy Music Director at the world-renowned revue theatre Friedrichstadt-Palast in Berlin. He was also the European Music Supervisor for We Will Rock You Germany, Switzerland, Sweden and Belgium.

Marc has been working as a music director ever since training at the University of Music in Freiburg in South Germany. He has extensive experience of teaching and working with singers and musicians from all kinds of backgrounds, both in workshop and full production contexts; he also has a wide-ranging knowledge of contemporary music and singing techniques and styles, from classical and contemporary classical to pop, rock, jazz and experimental.

Recent theatre includes Uncle Vanya (Composer, HOME, Manchester), A Pacifist’s Guide to the War on Cancer (Music Director, Complicite at National Theatre, London), Ghosts (Composer, HOME, Manchester), As You Like It (Music Director, National Theatre, London), Merchant of Venice (Composer, Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford upon Avon), The Wyld (Associate Music Director, Friedrichstadt-Palast, Berlin), Show Me (Associate Music Director, Friedrichstadt-Palast, Berlin), Warhorse (Music Director, Theater des Westens, Berlin), We Will Rock You (European Music Supervisor Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Belgium).

Marc started his piano lessons at the age of six. Besides his soloist education he performed chamber music from an early age and won several prizes, amongst them the 1st prize at the International Piano Competition Ostuni in Italy under the chairmanship of Lazar Berman in 1997. He started his piano studies 1999 at the University of Music Freiburg as a student of Prof. Felix Gottlieb and attended master classes of Stanislav Pochekin and Mikhail Voskresensky. He graduated in 2003 with a first class diploma degree in music performance and music pedagogy.

As a scholarship holder of the International Ensemble Modern Academy in 2005 / 2006 he focussed on contemporary art music. During the following years he played at many international festivals such as Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music, Ultraschall Festival Berlin, Israel Festival Jerusalem, Nordic Music Days Copenhagen and many more. Starting 2011 he began to perform solo concerts which lead to performances in Berlin, Paris, New York and São Paulo. He was also involved in many CD productions as a pianist – amongst them premiere recordings of the music by Bunita Marcus, Johannes Schöllhorn, Sarah Nemtsov and others.

In 2012 Marc founded the label Testklang with a group of musicians, record producers, filmmakers and designers. He now acts as the artistic director of the label. Testklang produces ambitious music projects around selected pieces of classical and contemporary music. The first releases, Bunita Marcus – Sugar Cubes, Tracking Pierrot (around Schönberg’s Pierrot lunaire), Jig for John (music by John Cage) and Palimpsesto (Spanish contemporary music) attracted a great deal of attention among experts and music lovers around the world. The latest project, Luc Ferrari – Journal Intime, consisting of a world premiere recording of an unpublished music theatre piece by Luc Ferrari and a feature length music documentary film, was released in November 2015.

www.testklang.net