WELCOME

Image of Mark standing in front of a mural on the South Terrace side of East West Design in South Fremantle. The image is watermarked Alma Sarhan Photography.

Photo:Alma Sarhan Photography

Welcome to my website that traces my current and past activity over nearly 40 years. Many of you may be interested to catch up with a bit of a retrospective of AC/PVC (under PROJECTS), so I've dug into my archives and come up with a story and photos of that amazing time (watch the youtube link here and below for a great video of the 1980s AC/PVC era done by my AC/PVC colleague, Peter Keelan).

Between 1991 and 2006 my core setting was with Nova Ensemble (directed by David Pye). See the PERFORMANCE link for more info about the range of projects involving Nova.

In recent years, my primary group has been Eastwinds, which grew from a trio in 2013 to a six-piece band featuring an Estonian singer, an Iranian ney (flute) player, a Japanese didge player, a UK-born guitarist, his bassist son and myself. In 2020, as the result of our singer, Kristiina Malaaps, returning to live with her family in her homeland, Estonia, Eastwinds currently tours nationally as a three-piece with Musica Viva in Schools (Esfandiar, Sanshi and I).

Also over recent years I've been playing in a combos with the Indian sarod player, Praashekh Borkar in the Praashekh Quartet.

Currently I am also playing and recording with South African-born guitarist, Ilan Zagoria in duo, trio and quartet settings. Ilan is both an accomplished guitarist and composer whose southern African and Sephardic-tinged music has taken me in some exciting new directions.

Other projects have included Michael Pignéguy in his Awakenings Ensemble and Ozmosis (including my old school friend, guitarist, Tim Chambers) and its off-shoot, Ozmosis Street Band, performing a repertoire of Catalan folk music played on traditional Catalan double reed instruments.

Finally, on my PERFORMANCE page I have documented the numerous groups with whom I've played and recorded over the decades. Enjoy a journey through my past. There's a huge variety of music in the audio clips I've also ncluded here.

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