Marc Sabat is a Canadian composer who was born in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada in September 1965. He went to the University of Toronto, where he studied violin, composition and mathematics, completing a BA in 1986. He followed this with a Master’s at the Juilliard School in New York and then two years of string quartet playing in Banff and St. John’s Newfoundland. He has been based in Berlin, Germany, since 1999. Despite that, in 2017, as part of Another Timbres’ Canadian Composers Series, Sabat’s album Harmony was released on the label alongside Linda Catlin Smith, Cassandra Miller and the like.
Sabat is a pioneer of instrumental music written and performed in Just Intonation (JI) and one of a few composers who compose for…