Mark was appointed Handel House Museum's first composer-in-residence from 2006-2007. During his residency he composed several new works for the museum and delivered a series of composition workshops and projects in secondary schools, throughout the borough of Greenwich, at Morley College and for the Royal National Institute of Blind People.
www.handelhouse.org
soundinventors
Mark led a soundinventors project in Shropshire in April 2005 after he taught on the first residential course in North Yorkshire in August 2004 and assisted Errollyn Wallen on a project in Slough in 2003.
www.spnm.org.uk/soundInventors
composing 4 kids
Mark worked with students from Lady Margaret's School in Parson's Green to develop a new work for children's choir and orchestra which was premiered at LSO, St Luke's in June 2005.
www.spnm.org.uk/c4k
adopt a composer
Mark has recently completed a new work for choir written as part of the PRS Foundation adopt a composer scheme in collaboration with spnm and Making Music. The new work, far to the northward lying was premiered in November 2004 by Thames Voyces.
www.spnm.org.uk/adoptacomposer
education work
Mark is an experienced education practitioner with a wide range of experience. As composer-in-residence at Esher High School in Surrey Mark delivered composition workshops and tuition to GCSE music students, at the Royal College of Music Junior Department Mark worked as a teacher of composition and musicianship, at Royal Holloway, University of London Mark lectures on undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. From 2002 to 2006 Mark worked as a fully qualified teacher of music at The Sixth Form College, Farnborough and Leyton Sixth Form College, London. Mark worked as a workshop leader on the Royal College of Music's residential Higher Education Summer School from 2001 to 2004.