Bio

Mark is a graduate of Portsmouth West High School. He has toured as keyboardist with Landau Eugene Murphy, Jr. The tour has included many stops across the Tri-State area and has also made stops in Sacramento, CA, Ogden, Utah, and Detroit, Michigan to open for the legendary Temptations. He has also played  for The Supremes and has opened shows for Jay Leno. In May of 2019, he was music director for and show featuring doo wop groups The Crystals, The Tokens, Danny and the Junior’s, and The Flamingo’s. He was invited to play with members of Lynyrd Skynyrd and Molly Hatchet. He performed in a fundraiser for the Brent Shapiro Foundation for Drug and Alcohol Abuse in Beverly Hills, CA. He toured several military bases in Germany the fall of 2012, to play for our Armed Forces to celebrate Veterans Day. Mark has played at the B. B. King Jazz Club in New York. He has been the music director/conductor for the premiere of a new musical at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Symrna Beach, Fla.

 

Mark currently serves as Organist/Choirmaster at Trinity Episcopal Church in Huntington. He has also served as music director or keyboardist in many community theatre organizations, including: Alchemy Theater, Huntington Outdoor Theatre, Portsmouth Little Theater, First Stage Theatre Co., 5^th Ave Theatre Co., Musical Arts Guild, Ashland Community and Technical College, Paramount Players in Ashland, Huntington Area Regional Theater, Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in Michigan, and Marshall University Theatre and Opera Departments. In March of 2012, he toured France with the Marshall University Chamber Choir which sang for a Sunday mass at the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris. In March of 2016, he again, joined the Chamber Choir on a performance tour in Spain. He also teaches private voice and piano.

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