Mark is hugely excited about participating in this exciting new project and is looking forward tremendously to getting to know new talented brass players from all over the world. He is pleased to offer lessons in English, Spanish and German.

Mark was born in Bletchley and started playing the piano aged 6. He took up the euphonium aged 11 and quickly became active in the brass band movement in the London area.

He commenced his studies at the Guildhall School of Music in London initially as a euphonium player but soon changed to bass trombone. He continued his studies at the Staatliche Hochschule fuer Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Mannheim. His professors included John Clark, Ron Bryans, Eric Crees, Peter Gane, Denis Wick, Hans Ruckert and Andreas Kraft. He was a member of various international youth orchestras including the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra and the Schleswig Holstein Festival Orchestra.

Mark started his professional playing career at the Nationaltheater in Mannheim before moving to Gran Canaria in 1998 where he is still a member of the Orquesta Filarmonica de Gran Canaria. He is a founding member of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra (1998) and the Luzern Festival Orchestra (2003) and is still a member of both groups. He has had the privilege to play under many leading conductors including Claudio Abbado, Lorin Maazel, Bernard Haitink, Daniele Gatti, Pierre Boulez, Kurt Maazur, Esa Pekka Salonen, Gustavo Dudamel and Ricardo Chailly amongst many others. Mark has played in many renowned orchestras such as Deutsche Sinfonie Orchester Berlin, Deutsche Kammerfilarmonie Bremen, NDR Hannover, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonia (London), London Philharmonic, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (London), Sinfonica Toscanini (Parma) and the majority of Spanish professional orchestras.

Mark is an active and passionate teacher working all over the world. He is presently teaching trombone at the Alicante Brass Academy, Zaragoza Superior Conservatoire, Franz Liszt Musikhochschule in Weimar and the Folkwang University for Arts in Essen. Furthermore Mark is a member of Faculty and consultant at the Filarmonica Joven de Colombia, former artistic advisor to the Gustav Mahler Academy (Bolzano) and former director of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra Academy. He also founded and continues to direct the South Africa National Youth Brass Ensemble and Colombian National Youth Brass Ensemble. Mark is or has been a regular tutor at the Catalan National Youth Orchestra (JONC), Royal Northern College of Music (Manchester) and Orchesterzentrum Dortmund, and has taught for the Australian National Academy of Music (Melbourne), Singapore National Youth Orchestra and has given masterclasses and clinics at the Folkwang Hochschule fuer Musik (Essen), Filarmonica de Bogota, Conservatorio Superior de Aragon (Zaragoza), La Escuela de Perfeccionamiento de La Unió de Lliria (Valencia), and the Escuela Superior de Musica Catalan (Barcelona).