Mark Walton

Mark Walton

Mark Walton (born in 1957) is a New Zealand born clarinettist, saxophonist, composer, arranger, and musical educator.

After leaving New Zealand to study clarinet in New York and London and has been resident in Sydney, Australia, from 1985 onwards. Up until 2006, he was Chair of Performance, Outreach and Communications at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, and was previously Chair of Woodwind there for several years. As of 2009, Mark splits his time between being the Musical Director of the Christchurch School of Music in New Zealand, and continuing to hold events and workshops for woodwind musicians across Australia.

Mark has established a groundbreaking instrumental music teaching system using video conferencing for young musicians in remote areas of Australia and has set up music programmes in many country areas. For establishing and maintaining this program he was awarded the Order of Australia medal in 2005.

Mark has written, compiled or edited for several different publishers over one hundred and fifty music publications, many of which have become standard woodwind teaching repertoire. Recently Mark has devoted considerable time to the composition of children oriented musical productions, such as 'Bobby The Musical' and 'Leonard and the Lottery Ticket'. He has also recorded numerous solo albums, the most recent being 'High Spirits 2', a CD of his own compositions.

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