Mark F. Lawlor Professor of Sacred Music St. John Vianney Theological Seminary 1300 S. Steele St. Denver, CO 80210 (405) 714-2952 mlawlor@usa.net

Welcome to Mark Lawlor's home page. Mark is currently Professor of Sacred Music at St. John Vianney Theological Seminary in Denver, Colorado. Prior to his appointment, Mark was Associate Director of Choral Activities at Oklahoma State University, director of the Stillwater Chamber Singers and organist/choir director at First Christian Church. He is an active clinician and ardent supported of music education. Prior to his appointment at OSU, Dr. Lawlor was Director of Choral Activities at Idaho State University and Associate Director of Choral Activities at Arizona State University. At Idaho State, he taught both undergraduates and masters students and conducted the Concert Choir, Chamber Choir, and the 100 voice community Camerata Singers. Mark also taught voice and organ. While at Arizona State he conducted the 80 voice University Choir, the 210 voice Choral Union and supervised student teachers.

Dr. Lawlor was a member of the Faculty and Chair of the Music Department at Marist College, Poughkeepsie, New York, for eleven years. He held the position of Choral Conductor at the United States Military Academy at West Point for eight years, conducting six of the choirs, traveling extensively throughout the United States and Canada. He has prepared choirs to sing for several United States Presidents, the Bob Hope Show, and the Kenney Rogers Holiday Tour. His choirs have recorded with New York City Opera soprano Rosemarie Freni, and have sung for Lincoln Center Special Events Programming, as well as the Fox Television Network. In March, 2006, Mark conducted Mozart's Mass in C major, K. 317 ("Coronation") at Carnegie Hall with MidAmerica Productions and Mozart's Vesperae de Dominica, K.321 with Distinguished Concerts International in March 2010.

Mark has performed with the New York Philharmonic, the Milwaukee Symphony, the Florida State Symphony, the New Jersey Symphony, the Arizona State University Orchestra, the Phoenix (Arizona) Symphony, the Hudson Valley (New York) Philharmonic, the Academia Vivaldiana (Italy), and the Orchestra Sinfonica Nova Amadeus (Italy). He has sung with Florida State Opera, and Taconic Opera (New York). He is an active member of the American Choral Directors Associations, the American Guild of Organists, and the Music Educators National Conference.

Mark received his Bachelor of Music degree in Church Music with Organ Performance from Westminster Choir College, Princeton, New Jersey, working under Dennis Shrock and Joseph Flummerfelt. He received his Masters of Music degree in Choral Conducting from Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, where Robert Shaw held the Housewright Music Chair, working under Colleen Kirk and Andre Thomas. He received his Doctorate of Musical Arts degree in Choral Conducting from Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, under David Stocker, Jill Sullivan and George Umberson.

Mark resides in Denver, CO and Centerville, MA with his wife and two daughters.

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