Mark Growden is an internationally renowned multi-instrumentalist and
artist based in San Francisco, CA.
As a composer, multi-instrumentalist and performer, Mark Growden has
released several critically acclaimed albums. He has completed many
successful US tours, performing at venues such as the Fillmore and
Great American Music Hall in San Francisco and Tonic and The Knitting
Factory in New York.
Mark has composed original musical scores for a number of Dance and
Theater companies, including Joe Goode Performance Group, The
Crucible's Fire Odyssey, and Alonzo King's Lines Contemporary Ballet,
with whom he and his collaborators won the Isadora Duncan Award for
Best Original Score for a New Dance Piece. He has scored several
films, including "Blood Tea and Red String," which won Best Animation
at both the San Francisco Independent Film Festival and the Fantasia
Film Festival in Montreal.
Growden co-founded and co-produces the underground site-specific
performance series COVERT along with famed artist and troublemaker
John Law, of Cacophony Society and Suicide Club fame.
Growden's newest album, Saint Judas, is his first studio album of
songs in eight years. Recorded live in the Bay Area, it is a stunning
exploration of moments of pain and catharsis, love and transformation,
tenderness and desire. Saint Judas is a rich and haunting collection
of stories and melodies that embraces and celebrates the saints and
sinners in each of us.
Mark is currently touring the western US in promotion of Saint
Judas, which will be released on Friday, November 13th, at the Cowell
Theater at Fort Mason in San Francisco.