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  • Mark Tse

  • "outstanding technical expertise...superb performance!"

    - The American Prize, 2016

    "energetic...spirited and tight performance"

    - The American Prize, 2015

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  • VIDEOS

    for more videos go to: Mark Tse - YouTube

    Nelson, Ron. Rocky Point Holiday

    University of Washington Wind Ensemble - April 20, 2017

    Massenet, Jules. Ballet Music from ""Le Cid": VII Navarraise

    New England Conservatory Wind Ensemble - November 11, 2014

    Ewazen, Eric. Shadowcatcher: IV Dancing to Restore an Eclipsed Moon

    University of Washington Wind Ensemble - March 20, 2016

    Faculty Association Faculty Profile

    SUNY Suffolk - October 18, 2021

  • BIOGRAPHY

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    Long Bio

    Dr. Mark Tse is a conductor and educator, serving asAssistant Professor of Instrumental Music Education at the University of Saskatchewan, and settler living on the Treaty Six Territory and the Homeland of the Métis. He conducts the University’s Concert Band and Symphony Orchestra and is an instructor of conducting and instrumental music teaching in secondary schools.

    Dr. Tse values kindness, collectivism, and continuouslearning. He is dedicated to co-creating opportunities for everyone to access and cultivate the joy of music, which includes musicians, conductors, composers and audiences, as well as people and genres who have historically been marginalized from orchestral music.

    In the 2016 American Prize competition, he won 3rd place forCommunity Band Wind Ensemble Conducting and an Honourable Mention for College/University Wind Ensemble Conducting. In 2015, he won 2nd place for
    College/University Wind Ensemble Conducting.

    Dr. Tse holds a doctorate in Wind Ensemble Conducting fromthe University of Washington, a Master of Music (Wind Ensemble Conducting) from the New England Conservatory, a Master of Music (Music Education) from the
    University of Western Ontario, as well as a Bachelor of Music (Music Education) and a Bachelor of Education (Instrumental Music) from the University of Toronto.

    Dr. Tse has guest conducted the North Saskatchewan WindSymphony and the Atlantic Wind Symphony. He served as clinician, adjudicator and guest conductor at various music festivals, and workshopped school bands in Seattle, Toronto, Long Island, and Saskatoon. He is published in the Canadian Music Educators Association Journal. Prior to his graduate studies, Dr. Tse taught instrumental high school music for eleven years in his home city Toronto.

    Short Bio

    Dr. Mark Tse is a conductor and educator, serving asAssistant Professor of Instrumental Music Education at the University of Saskatchewan, and settler living on the Treaty Six Territory and the Homeland of the Métis. He conducts the University’s Concert Band and Symphony Orchestra and is an instructor of conducting and instrumental music teaching in secondary schools.

    Dr. Tse holds music education degrees from the University ofToronto and Western University, and wind ensemble conducting degrees from the New England Conservatory, and the University of Washington.

  • RESEARCH

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    Book Review: In Search of Meaning: Frank L. Battisti, the Conservatory Years and Into the New Millennium

    Published by the canadian music educator, 62 (4). pp. 11-12.

    A review of Mitch Lutch's book about Frank L. Battisti

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    Dissertation: A Comparative Study of Four American Professional Wind Bands

    2020

    This study compares the repertoire, business models, and philosophies of four American professional wind bands; Dallas Winds, Lone Star Wind Orchestra, San Diego Winds, and the Royal Hawaiian Band. For the purposes of this study, “professional” is defined as generating sufficient income to pay the performers.

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    The Work-Concept and the Wind Band

    Published by the Canadian music educator, 59 (2). pp. 18-22.

    This paper is about how the wind band world's continued quest for new "works" continues a century-old quest for respect, and a suggested path to move forward. It was recently published in the Canadian Music Educators Journal.

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    Prized Composers

    Updated September 29, 2017

    A nationally-acclaimed resource for wind musicians, conductors, and educators. Prized Composers is designed to highlight the wind works of distinguished, prize-winning composers, for the advancement of quality repertoire in the field of wind music. So far, winners of the Pulitzer Prize, Grawemeyer Award, Guggenheim Fellowship, Rome Prize, and the Academy Arts and Letters Music Prize are included.

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    Towards a Critical Edition of Darius Milhaud's La creation du mode 81a

    June 13, 2016

    A proposal for the creation of a critical edition of Darius Milhaud's landmark ballet La création du mode 81a, through a reconciliation of the original manuscript score, and the version for piano quintet.

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    Analysis of Varese's Octandre (mvt 1)

    March 13, 2016

    An analysis of Edgard Varèse's Octandre (movement 1 only).

  • GALLERY

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    Mark Tse Auditioning for the RPO
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    Mark Tse in Cleveland
    Mark Tse with Victor Yampolsky
    Mark Tse with Victor Yampolsky
    Mark Tse with RPO conductors 2011.
    Mark Tse with Sistema Aeolian
    Apo Hsu with Mark Tse
    Mark Tse conducting the UWWE
    Mark Tse with Frank Battisti
    Mark Tse with Dr. Zhao-Rong Peter Chen
    Mark Tse Conducting NEC Symphonic Winds
    Mark Tse's doctoral recital
    Mark Tse conducting the UWWE
    Mark Tse conducting the University of Washington Wind Ensemble featuring the Washington Chamber Brass
  • Contact me

    Available for workshops, adjudications, and guest conducting

    $300/session but absolutely negotiable

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As a frequent mover, I find myself once again benefiting from living and working on land that is not my own. I respectfully acknowledge that I am on Treaty Six Territory and the Homeland of the Métis. I commit myself to learning more about the injustices done to the First Nation and Métis ancestors and will work toward righting the wrongs of the past with their descendents, my neighbours.

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