Mark Ford

Mark Ford is the coordinator of percussion activities at The University of North Texas in Denton, Texas and Immediate Past-President of the Percussive Arts Society. He is a marimba specialist and is the author of Marimba: Technique Through Music, a marimba method book. Ford has been a featured performer and clinician throughout the U.S., and also at international music festivals in South America, Asia, Australia and Europe. His solo marimba CDs, Motion Beyond and Polaris, have received outstanding reviews.

As a composer Mark Ford has written several popular works for solo marimba and percussion ensemble, and his compositions have been performed at universities and concert halls throughout the world and also featured on National Public Radio. Mark was the first percussionist composer to be invited by the prestigious Van Cliburn Foundation to present a performance/lecture on his compositions for the Modern at the Modern performance series in Ft. Worth, Texas.

--Intermezzo Weekend Concert, Saturday, June 24, 2006 (UNF Percussion Quintet)