Born in Paris, Andre studied composition from 1987 to 1993 with Claude Ballif and Gérard Grisey at the Paris Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique, and graduated from the École Normale Supérieure with a thesis on the music of Ars subtilior (Le compossible musical de l’Ars subtilior). In 1995 he received a scholarship from the French Foreign Ministry, which enabled him to continue his composition studies at the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart with Helmut Lachenmann (Graduation: “Großes Kompositionsexamen”, 1996). In the Experimental Studio for Acoustic Art he studied electronic music with André Richard. In 1996, he was able to continue his studies in Stuttgart by a grant from the Akademie Schloss Solitude. Numerous other scholarships and residencies followed. In 2007 his large orchestral and electronic triptych “…auf… III” was played at the Donaueschingen Festival, and received the prize of the SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden and Freiburg, since which public attention has been drawn to his work even more. But even before that Andre had earned numerous major awards, such as the Darmstadt Summer Courses (Kranichsteiner Music Prize 1996).

In 2002, he received the Ernst von Siemens Composer Prize. Living in Berlin, Andre taught at the Frankfurt University of Music and at the Conservatoire de Strasbourg (2002–2007). As part of the project “…auf …”, a collaboration between the Ensemble Modern and Siemens Arts Program, in cooperation with the Goethe Institute, Andre’s piece “üg”, was developed in Istanbul jointly with the computer music and sound engineer Joachim Haas (Experimentalstudio des SWR) and others, and was premiered in October 2008 at the Alte Oper in Frankfurt by the Ensemble Modern. In 2009 he was appointed a member of the Berlin Academy of Arts[6] and professor of composition at the Hochschule für Musik in Dresden.Since 2010 he has been a member of the Saxon Academy of Arts, and from 2012 a Fellow of the Berlin Institute for Advanced Study  and a member of the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. On 2 March 2014 his opera “Wunderzaichen” was premiered in Stuttgart directed by Jossi Wieler and Sergio Morabito.

Andre is well known on the continent, though his work does not have such a large profile in the predominantly English-speaking world. Referring to this, The Guardian noted “though Manchester International Festival director Alex Poots’s claim that Mark Andre is ‘one of Europe’s leading composers’ is far-fetched, there is no doubt that Andre’s music remains virtually unknown in the UK.”

出生于巴黎,安德烈从 1987 年至 1993 年在巴黎国立高等音乐学院师从克洛德·巴利夫和热拉尔·格里泽学习作曲,他毕业于高等师范学院，论文主题是 Ars subtilior 的音乐（Le compossible musical de l’Ars subtilior）。1995 年，他获得法国外交部奖学金，得以在斯图加特国立音乐与表演艺术学院跟随赫尔穆特·拉亨曼继续作曲学习（毕业时通过了“Großes Kompositionsexamen”考试，即大型作曲考试，时间为 1996 年）。在声学艺术实验工作室，他师从安德烈·理查德学习电子音乐。1996 年，他凭借来自 Akademie Schloss Solitude 的资助得以继续在斯图加特学习。此后他还获得了众多其他奖学金和驻留机会。2007 年，他的大型管弦和电子三重奏作品《…auf… III》在多瑙埃辛根音乐节上演，并获得了 SWR 广播交响乐团巴登-巴登和弗赖堡分团颁发的奖项。自此以后，公众对他的作品愈发关注。但在此之前，安德烈已经获得了众多重要奖项，例如达姆斯塔特夏季课程奖（Kranichsteiner 音乐奖，1996 年）。

2002年，他获得了恩斯特·冯·西门子作曲奖。安德烈居住在柏林期间，曾在法兰克福音乐大学及斯特拉斯堡音乐学院任教（2002–2007年）。作为该项目“…auf ……”的一部分，即现代乐团与西门子艺术项目合作、与歌德学院合作的项目，安德烈的作品《üg》是在伊斯坦布尔与电脑音乐和音响工程师约阿希姆·哈斯（SWR 实验工作室）及其他人共同创作的。该作品于 2008 年 10 月由现代乐团在法兰克福的老歌剧院首演。2009 年，他被任命为柏林艺术学院成员[6]以及位于德累斯顿的音乐学院作曲学教授。自 2010 年起，他便成为萨克森艺术研究院的一员[7]自 2012 年起，成为柏林高等研究院的研究员[8]以及慕尼黑美术学院的一名成员。[9]2014年3月2日，他的歌剧《奇迹之物》在斯图加特首演，由乔西·维勒尔和塞尔吉奥·莫拉比托执导。

安德烈在欧洲大陆享有盛誉，但在以英语为主的世界中，他的作品却鲜为人知。《卫报》在提到这一点时指出：“尽管曼彻斯特国际艺术节总监亚历克斯·普茨声称马克·安德烈是‘欧洲顶尖作曲家之一’的说法有些牵强，但毫无疑问，安德烈的音乐在英国几乎无人知晓。”