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Mark has extensive concert, recording and recital experience locally, nationally and internationally. He has a solid reputation for excellence and hard work and relishes every new musical opportunity and challenge.
Concerts
2017
CARNEGIE HALL
Recital with piano accompanist, Ayke Agus - October 1st, 2017
CONCERTMASTER
World Doctors Orchestra - Performances in Munich and Salzburg - April 2017
2015
SOLOIST
Dvorak Violin Concerto Soloist - World Doctors Orchestra - Benaroya Hall, Seattle, Washington and Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, Vancouver, BC
KING FM RADIO
Live and videotaped recordings with Ayke Agus
CBC RADIO ONE
Interviewed by Vancouver Radio Station
2014
CONCERTMASTER
Victoria Philharmonic Choir – Handel’s Israel in Egypt Oratoria – June 7th
HEIFETZ TRIBUTE RECITAL
with Ayke Agus – Alix Goolden Hall, Victoria – October 9th
RECORDING FOR CD
with Ayke Agus
VICTORIA PHILIHARMONIC CHOIR
Benefit recital – November 29th
2013
VIENNA, AUSTRIA
Concertmaster and Soloist with World Doctors Orchestra – with Vienna Boys’ Choir – June 7th
RECITAL - CLASSICS TO CELTIC
Alix Goolden Hall, Victoria
CONCERT WITH CARLA DODEK
Chemainus
CONCERT - VANCOUVER, BC
Norman Rothstein Theatre
CONCERT - 150TH CELEBRATION
Victoria, BC
2012
SOUTH AFRICA TOUR - CONCERTMASTER OF WORLD DOCTORS ORCHESTRA
Cape Town, Elansdoorn and Johannesburg
2011
CHINA TOUR - CONCERTMASTER OF WORLD DOCTORS ORCHESTRA
Beijing and Shanghai
RECITAL WITH ROBERT HOLLISTON
Alix Goolden Hall, Victoria
2010
GALIANO ENSEMBLE CONCERT
Victoria
RECITAL WITH ROBERT HOLLISTON
Alix Goolden Hall, Victoria
2008
RECITAL WITH CARLA DODEK, PHILLIP T, YOUNG
Recital Hall, Victoria
VICTORIA CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC PERFORMANCE
CRYSTAL BALLROOM, EMPRESS HOTEL PERFORMANCE
Education
Jascha Heifetz
University of Southern California (1979-81)
Joseph Gingold
Indiana University, Bloomington (1979)
Franco Gulli
Indiana University, Bloomington (1978-79) B. Mus.
Ivan Galamian
Meadowmount, Elizabethtown, New York (1976)
Ranald Shean
Edmonton, Alberta (1970-77)
Sigmund Effron
Cincinnati, Ohio (1966-70)
Awards & Scholarships
1988
Hart House Competition Award
1980
Heifetz Scholarship Award
1979
First Class Honours Award for 1978-79
(Indiana University – B. Mus.)
1975
Canadian National Competition Award
1970-1977
Kiwanis Music Festival – First Prize in all age categories (Edmonton, Alberta)
1967
Television debut on the Dennis Wholey show (Cincinnati, Ohio) Scholarship – University of Cincinnati