Mark Robinson

CHOIR DIRECTOR

Mark Robinson was introduced to Choral Conducting as a 16-year-old Junior in High School and began working with choirs at age 19. His full-time teaching career with the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District began in 1985 and continued for 27 years, working at Chapman Elementary, McNeil Canyon, Homer Intermediate, Homer Middle and Homer High Schools. Mark was choral director for Homer High School and Middle School, for 23 of those years. Additionally, for 18 years, he served as artistic director for the Kenai Peninsula Orchestra and the Kenai Peninsula Community Chorus. As such, Mark was able to combine the orchestra, adult community choir, and students for wide-ranging large-scale projects including Broadway musicals, the Brahms Requiem, the Mozart Requiem, Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana, the Vivaldi Gloria, Handel’s Messiah, and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9. He has taken combined choirs to Los Angeles, Honolulu, New York, Italy, Germany, Austria, and the Czech Republic. His choirs have sung in Carnegie Hall, St. Patrick’s Cathedral, St. Peter’s Basilica, St. Mark’s Basilica, the Duomos of Florence and Milan, Thomas Kirke, St. Stephen’s Cathedral, cathedrals in Berlin, Prague, Salzburg, and Mauthausen Concentration Camp.

Mark holds a Master of Music degree in conducting from Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. He has received numerous local and state awards for his work. Since Retirement in 2012 Mark has worked with Pier One Theatre on Les Misérables, Jesus Christ Superstar, Chicago, Spamalot, Beauty and the Beast, and the Concert For Peace.