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“We can try and make this division within ourselves between the music we listen to outside of our work and the music we compose. [But] for me, something that has brought a lot of life into my music is… dissolv[ing] that barrier as much as possible.”
Photo by Shara Lili ©2024
BIOGRAPHY:
Ábel M.G.E. is a Hungarian-American composer and electronic music producer. He is most active in the creation of music converging with other art forms—works of opera, dance-theatre, and narrative podcast—and telling one story through many overlapping layers. For this reason, collaboration is at the heart of Ábel’s practice; most prominently he works with writers, choreographers, theater makers, as well as other composers. He believes it is through narrative that we connect to art, ourselves, and others, and contextualize and understand our experiences.
Ábel is a graduate of Indiana University and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. His music has featured at Resolution Dance Festival, BMI, and venues including Wigmore Hall and Grange Park Opera. Past commissioners include the Royal Northern Sinfonia, New Voices Opera Company, the Illuminated River Foundation, and Tesla, inc. and he has been supported by Canada Council for the Arts, the Irish Arts Council, the University of Cincinnati GSG Research Fund, and Sky Arts. In the 2024–25 season his operatic works will be performed at Tête à Tête opera festival (new commission TBA) and Hungarian State Opera (I’m Cleaning, I’m Cleaning). Ábel is currently based in London, UK.
Medium and short-form biographies available, please get in touch:
Ábel Esbenshade
abelmge@gmail.com