Mark Nelson, tuba soloist, clinician, arranger, and educator has enjoyed a career spanning the North American continent, Europe, and the Far East over the last decade. He was a featured recitalist in the most recent International Tuba/Euphonium Conference in Lexington, Kentucky. He was a featured guest artist and clinician for the Hokkaido Euphonium/Tuba Camp in Sapporo, Japan in 1993 and was recently on the faculty of the former Summit Brass Institute in Keystone, Colorado now renamed the Raphael Mendez Brass Institute.

Nelson has commissioned over a dozen new works for tuba, many featured on his critically acclaimed

CD recording, New England Reveries. Another CD of commissioned works is in progress. He has many tuba/euphonium ensemble arrangements published principally through Cimarron Music Press in Dallas, Texas. He has also written several articles about the tuba/euphonium, ensemble and other tuba topics in the T.U.B.A. Journal.

Mark Nelson's formal education includes the B.A., magna cum laude, from Point Loma Nazarene College, the Licentiate Performer's Diploma form Trinity College of Music, London, the M.M. and D.M.A. degrees from Arizona State University where he studied with Daniel Perantoni, and the M.Ed degree from the University of Vermont in Educational Administration and Planning. Previous to his appointment as Chair of Pedagogical Studies and Instructor of Tuba at Millikin University in Decatur, Illinois in 1993, he was on the faculty of the University of Vermont for nine years simultaneously performing as Principal Tuba of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra, the Vermont Brass Quintet, and the Vermont Town Brass. He currently serves as Editor of New Materials for the T.U.B.A. Journal.

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