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Mark Conroy
Piano
Composition and Theory
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| Scottsdale, AZ |
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| Quick Resume: Mark began his study of piano at the age of eight under the tutelage of his father. Four years later, he placed first in the Iowa State Piano Competition. Mark’s formal training then began with Julian Burn, Israeli concert pianist and head of the Music Department at Cornell College of Mount Vernon, Iowa. Mark’s studies consisted of an intensive European training program where technical strength and articulation were priorities. When Mark was 17, he toured the eastern United States performing Beethoven’s First Piano Concerto. Later that same year, Mark returned to Iowa where he competed in the State Piano Competition and won first place.
Mark’s technical ability proved to be phenomenal and gained him acceptance under the tutelage of Menahem Pressler, international award-winning pianist and cofounder of the renowned Beaux Arts Trio. Mark’s studies with Pressler began at the Indiana School of Music in Bloomington, Indiana, initiating his finest musical inspirations.
In the past decade, Mark has composed over 75 musical works and performed over 500 public engagements including The Phoenician, the Scottsdale Princess & the Arizona Biltmore Resort. He also teaches piano privately, specializing in the young and gifted student. Mark’s love for inner beauty and the soft tranquility of sound keeps him close to the water’s edge, whether a crystal lake in the Rocky Mountains or the waves of the California seashores. Mark’s live passionate performances and his clean transparent sound have earned him prestige among the great contemporary composers of today.
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Reviews of his Latest CD
Providence...
Mark has the ability to play the piano with such superb delicacy and yet the clarity of each note is truly deliberate. Although there are no lyrics, many of Mark's compositions are so deeply moving that you can hear the words anyway. Here is a pianist who can truly make the piano sing. These days when many artists' music is background to work or dinner, Mark's playing so demands your attention that all other activities become a distraction as the music takes you to a different space...a much needed restful place.
Larry Bergsneider
Independent writer & entrepreneur
in the software industry
Phoenix, AZ
Mark Conroy's "Providence" packs a surprise punch. From the moving "Forest
Gate" to the provocative "Iceland", Mark's technique and imagination moves the listener.
Brock Kruzic
National sales Manager
KASW-TV
Phoenix, AZ
The Providence CD is like a great bubble bath, with lots of candles, after a very stressful day at work, with a Godiva chocolate just out of reach.....love it!
Marilee Lasch
Artist, interior designer & motivational speaker.
Phoenix, AZ
Mark Conroy's new CD, Providence, is a masterful body of piano music that travels a middle road between Classical and New Age. In it, courageous melodies dance across a smooth landscape of instrumental finesse.
Lesley King
Author of Frommer’s American Southwest & Frommer’s New Mexico;
author of articles in The New York Times, Audubon, & Hemispheres Magazine
Sante Fe, New Mexico
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