Mark Andre was born in 1964 in Paris. He studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieure de Musique de Paris (CNSMP) where he took his final exam in composition with Claude Ballif and Gérard Grisey, graduating with distinction. In 1993 he was awarded a grant by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs to continue his studies until 1996 with Helmut Lachenmann at the Hochschule für Musik in Stuttgart.

1994 he concluded his studies at the École Normale Supérieure (Ulm) in Paris and at the Centre d’Études Supérieures de la Renaissance in Tours in musicology with a thesis on Ars Subtilior (Le compossible musical de l'Ars subtilior). In 1996 he was also stipendiary at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart. In the same year he was awarded the Kranichsteiner Musikpreis of the Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik, Darmstadt. Since October 1997, Mark Andre has been teaching counterpoint and instrumentation at the Conservatoire National de Région de Strasbourg and at the Musikhochschule Frankfurt am Main. With the help of a stipend by the Experimentalstiftung der Heinrich-Strobel-Stiftung of the SWR Freiburg he studied electronic music with André Richard in 1997. In addition, he was awarded the first prize by the International Composers’ Competition Stuttgart for “Le Trou noir univers” (1992-93) for orchestra with soloists and live-electronics.

From 1997 until 1998 he was awarded a grant by the SWR and the city of Baden-Baden; from 1998 until 2000 he held a stipend of the Villa Médicis in Rome and in 2001 of the Frankfurt Opera, where he was also awarded the composer’s prize for “… das O …” (first part of  “... 22,13 ...”). The Ensemble Modern under the baton of Johannes Debus played the world premiere at the Bockenheimer Depot.
In 2002 he was awarded the Förderpreis für Komposition of the Ernst-von-Siemens-Stiftung. For the Musikbiennale München and the Staatstheater Mainz he created the “Musiktheater-Passion in drei Teilen” … 22,13 …, which had its world premiere on May 20, 2004 in Munich, directed by Georges Delnon. Further performances took the piece in addition to Munich and Mainz to the Opéra Bastille during the Festival d’Automne end of September 2004 in Paris. In 2005 he held a stipend of the DAAD artists‘ programme in Berlin. In 2006 he was awarded the Christoph and Stefan Kaske Composition Prize.

Currently, Mark Andre is writing works for important European festivals such as Donaueschinger Musiktage, Internationale Ferienkurse Darmstadt, Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik or for radio stations such as SWR, BR and WDR. He is commissioned by Ensemble Modern, ensemble recherche, the trio Accanto, Klangforum Wien, KNM Berlin, les Percussions de Strasbourg, the Ensemble Alternance, etc.