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He graduated with honors from Towson University earning his Bachelor’s Degree in Music Education. Mr. Craig earned his Master’s of Music Performance Degree from Indiana University, Bloomington and is currently pursuing his Doctor of Musical Arts Degree from the University of Cincinnati, College Conservatory of Music. Mr. Craig has studied under some of today’s most outstanding percussionists including Allen Otte, Russell Burge, James Culley, Gerald Carlyss and Dale Rauschenberg. He has performed as percussionist, principal percussionist and principal timpanist for various symphony orchestras including the Hopkins Symphony Orchestra, Gettysburg Symphony Orchestra, Columbus Philharmonic, The Camerata Symphony the Northern Kentucky Symphony and the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra. Mr. Craig has also performed under the direction of many of music’s finest conductors such as Gerard Schwarz, Frederick Fennell, William McGlaughlin, John Morris Russell, Luis Biava, Rico Saccani, David Loebel and Robert Bernhardt. He was a founding member of the ResonancÈ Percussion Group and is the timpanist for the Blue Ridge Brass Quintet. Mr. Craig has also performed for the PBS ARTS television series. He was the winner of the Towson University Talent Award Competition and performed as a soloist at the Hanover Percussion Festival in 1994 and at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. in 1995. Mr. Craig is a proponent of new music compositions for percussion and as such has several world premieres to his credit including Carl Davis’ 1986 film score to Ben Hur, Devin Maxwell’s SK1, Jindrich Feld’s Centenial Overture, Joel Marsh’s Crimson Century March, Frederick Fox’s Four Times Round and David Dzubay’s as filaments of memory spin. His performances at numerous new music and electronic music symposiums have included the works of some today’s most talented composers, including John Bergamo, Forrest Pierce, Orianna Webb and Bruce Hamilton. In 2000, Mr. Craig performed as an extra percussionist with the world-renown Percussion Group Cincinnati in the piece Interlude from XI by the internationally celebrated Chinese composer Qu Xiao Song. As an educator Mr. Craig has been cited as a major contributor to the publication of The Timpani Companion, featured in the October-December 2005 publication of Band World Magazine. He has performed as a recitalist and clinician at public schools and colleges throughout Maryland and served as the percussion instructor for the award-winning Cincinnati Youth Wind Ensemble. (First Prize Ensemble, Bournemouth International Music Festival) Office: CA3095 |
Mark Craig has been on the percussion faculty at Towson University since 2006 where he teaches applied percussion lessons in snare drum, mallets and timpani as well as percussion methods courses.