Mark is a freelance percussionist and educator based out of Lawrence, New Jersey. He holds a DMA in Percussion Performance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Mark is a frequent performer for the Princeton Sound Kitchen premiering new works by composers at Princeton University. As a teacher he works with the percussion programs at Hunterdon Central and Hopewell Valley High School and maintains a private lesson studio in the Princeton area. Before moving to New Jersey, he worked at the University of Texas-Brownsville as a lecturer of percussion and prior to that appointment was a freelance performer and teacher in Chicago. He also currently serves as the Front Ensemble Arranger and Percussion Coordinator for The Academy Drum and Bugle Corps, where he has worked since 2013.