Mark Dangerfield is a London-based composer/performer, originally from Amersham, Buckinghamshire. Having played the guitar since the age of eight and joined his local guitar ensemble, Mark began to show musical promise in secondary school, remaking pop songs and composing music to share with friends. 

In 2021 Mark began studying at the Royal College of Music - originally in the guitar faculty - but gradually became more and more involved in his studies of composition, which he had not studied formally before college, completing his first orchestral work, titled Tundra, in 2024.  

In February 2025 Mark gave his debut recital at the Royal Albert Hall’s Elgar Room in collaboration with the British tenor Simon Mascarenhas Carter. Among other songs, the duo performed Mark’s original composition Sailing to Byzantium, a song based on William Butler Yeats’ poem of the same name.

Now in his final year of undergraduate study of guitar and composition at the RCM, Mark looks forward to various musical ventures in 2025, including arranging and performing pieces of archival Brazilian modernist music as part of the Royal Academy of Arts’ exhibition ‘Brasil! Brasil! The Birth of Modernism.’ He is also excited to share a stage with composer/soprano Heloise Werner and composer/cellist Colin Alexander to premiere a new original composition at the RCM in May.