Marko Ciciliani (*1970 Zagreb/Croatia) received his musical training as a
composer in The Hague, New York and Hamburg. He has written for a huge
variety of settings like orchestra, chamber and solo scores, with and
without electronics. Ciciliani is also active as a performer and improviser
and has worked in various collaborative projects in the fields of theater,
dance, video and music.

Ciciliani's involvement as a performer led him in his more recent
compositions to leave a high amount of control, regarding the form of the
piece and several aspects of its materials, to the interpreters. This takes
place by providing flexible forms, musical materials that still have to be
furnished, or compositional guidelines for sections to be worked out. All
this aims at creating a multiple-authorship and giving the performer of the
music the possibility of creating a personal realization of a piece.

Ciciliani has received commission from ensembles like ASKO, ensemble
Intégrales, Maarten Altena Ensemble, QO-2, Zephyr Quartet and Interzone
perceptible. His music has been performed a.o. at the Bregenzer Festspiele,Zagreb Biennale, Ars Nova SWR, Das Neue Werk NDR, "Activa" Berlin and Playground Touch/Bern.
As an improvisor Marko Ciciliani has used the no-input mixer for many years,
developing a virtuosic mastership on this unconventional instrument. He used it as an improviser in performances with a.o. Jaap Blonk, Cor Fuhler, Jim
Fulkerson and Axel Dorner.