Mark Dancigers is a composer whose music brings together expansive melodic lines, electric guitar, and luminous sound worlds. His work spans concert music, ballet, contemporary dance, and collaborative projects, and has been described as “entrancing” and “gorgeous” 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, 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, with recordings by artists including yMusic and Michi Wiancko. His work has also been heard on NPR’s Performance Today and WNYC’s New Sounds.

His musical path began with the electric guitar. As a teenager, Dancigers recorded instrumental rock on a Tascam 4-track while simultaneously discovering a passion for notated music and composition. 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 technology has remained central to his work, informing his compositional practice, music production work, and teaching. As a producer, his credits include pianist Michael Mizrahi’s Dreamspace, Currents, and The Bright Motion.

The electric guitar has been central to Dancigers’ musical life. He is a longtime member of NOW Ensemble, which has premiered more than 100 works and helped establish new possibilities for the electric guitar in chamber music. With NOW Ensemble, he has performed at the LA Opera, Carnegie Hall, Peak Performances, and the Bang on a Can Marathon, collaborating with artists including Roomful of Teeth, David Krakauer, Dan Deacon, and San Fermin. 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 an original 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 new music group ensrq.

Dancigers is Associate Professor of Music at New College of Florida, where he teaches classes in music theory, composition, and related topics. He was previously an Assistant Professor at the University of Redlands School of Music.