OUR CONDUCTOR

Mark Zielinski

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.