Mark Dancigers is a composer and electric guitarist. His work spans concert music, ballet, contemporary dance, and collaborative projects, and has been described as “entrancing” by The New York Times and “majestic” by the Huffington Post.

Dancigers’ music has been performed by the New York City Ballet, Alabama Symphony, Cabrillo Festival, BalletCollective, and Sarasota Contemporary Dance, with scores heard at the Sundance and Toronto International Film Festivals, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, New York City Center, Carnegie Hall, the West Australian Ballet, the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, and venues throughout the United States and Europe. His music is featured on albums released by New Amsterdam Records, Bright Shiny Things, and Sono Luminus. His work has also been broadcast on Performance Today and WNYC’s New Sounds.

His musical path began with the electric guitar. As a teenager, Dancigers recorded instrumental rock on 4-track tape while simultaneously discovering a passion for composing. He went on to study at Yale, the Yale School of Music, and Princeton University, where he earned a PhD, studying with Steve Mackey. That early fascination with recording has remained central to his work, informing his compositional practice, music production, and teaching. As a producer, his credits include pianist Michael Mizrahi’s albums of contemporary works Dreamspace, Currents, and The Bright Motion.

An active electric guitarist, Dancigers is a founding member of NOW Ensemble, a group dedicated to commissioning, performing, and recording music for flute, clarinet, electric guitar, piano, and bass. NOW Ensemble has premiered more than 100 works and helped establish new possibilities for the electric guitar in chamber music. With NOW, he has performed at the LA Opera, Carnegie Hall Neighborhood Concerts, Peak Performances, and the Bang on a Can Marathon, collaborating with artists and bands including Dan Deacon, San Fermin, Roomful of Teeth, and David Krakauer.

He is also a founding member of Grand Electric, a duo with pianist Aaron Wunsch. Their debut album, Dawn, released by Bright Shiny Things, explores new musical territory for electric guitar and piano and received positive reviews in Gramophone and For the Record. In addition to these groups, Dancigers has performed at the Sarasota Opera House with the Sarasota-based ensemble newsrq.

Dancigers is Associate Professor of Music at New College of Florida, where he teaches classes in music theory, composition, and related topics. He directed the series New Music New College from 2020-2022, presenting artists including Claire Chase, JACK Quartet, yMusic, Tyshawn Sorey and Jennifer Curtis, and Vicky Chow. He was previously an Assistant Professor at the University of Redlands School of Music.