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OUR CONDUCTOR |
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Mark Zielinski |
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Mark Zielinski currently serves as
Lecturer of Music Education at the University of New Hampshire, and teaches
trumpet at the Manchester Community Music School and the Portsmouth Music and
Arts Center. Prior to these
appointments, he was Director of Instrumental Music and Department Chair at
Hereford High School in Baltimore, Maryland.
Under his direction the bands consistently earned high ratings at
district and state festivals, performed at adjudicated festivals in Florida,
Illinois, and New York and received a special invitation to perform at Towson
University. Mark’s conducting teachers include
Keith Brion, Ray E. Cramer and Stephen W. Pratt. He has also participated in conducting
clinics at Northwestern University, University of Texas-Austin and Indiana
University. Having taught music at the middle
school, high school and collegiate levels, Mark is in demand as an
adjudicator and clinician throughout New England and the Mid-Atlantic. He is a past board member of the Maryland Music
Educators Association and a current New Hampshire Music Educators Association
member. In addition to teaching and
conducting, Mark remains active as a trumpet player. He performs regularly as a member of the
New Sousa Band, which tours throughout the U.S. He has also performed with
the Maine State Ballet, Mid-Atlantic Symphony, Regal Brass Quintet, Columbus
Pro Musica, and Bloomington Pops Orchestra.
In 1993 Mark was selected as runner-up in the International Trumpet Guild’s Mock Orchestra Audition Competition.
His trumpet teachers include Charles Gorham and Stephen Burns. A native of Indiana, Mark received a
Bachelor of Music Education and Performers Certificate from Indiana
University as well as a Master of Music in trumpet, with a cognate field in
Wind Conducting from the same institution. |