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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

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

    New England Conservatory Wind Ensemble - November 11, 2014

    Nelson, Ron. Rocky Point Holiday

    University of Washington Wind Ensemble - April 20, 2017

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

    University of Washington Wind Ensemble - March 20, 2016

    Faculty Association Faculty Profile

    Suffolk County Community College - October 18, 2021

  • BIOGRAPHY

    download Curriculum Vitae

    download Works Conducted

    Mark Tse is a Canadian conductor and educator, serving as Assistant Professor of Instrumental Music Education at the University of Saskatchewan. He conducts the Symphony Orchestra and is an instructor of conducting, instrumental music teaching in secondary schools, and guitar pedagogy.

     

    In the 2016 American Prize competition, he won 3rd place for Community 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.

     

    Tse holds a doctorate in Wind Ensemble Conducting from the 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.

     

    On Long Island, Dr. Tse has guest conducted the Atlantic Wind Symphony, served as co-chair of the Suffolk County Music Educators’ Association Division 3 East Band Festival and has presented workshops for the New York State Council of Administrators of Music Education. He is published in the Canadian Music Educators Association Journal and has adjudicated band festivals and conducted band workshops in Seattle. Prior to his graduate studies, Tse taught instrumental high school music for eleven years in his home city Toronto.

  • 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).

  • Appearances

    concerts, guest conducting, presentations

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    SCCC Professional Development Day

    The movies including music from John Williams

    April 28, 2019

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    NYSCAME Suffolk PD Workshop

    Score marking for Excellence

    October 21, 2019

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    SCCC Professional Development Day

    Kahoot! Audience participation via smartphones

    November 5, 2019

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    OMEA - OPUS 100

    Score STudying for better Performances

    November 8, 2019

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    NYSCAME Suffolk PD Workshop

    BAd habits of conductors and how to fix them

    October 7, 2020

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    SCCC Professional Development Day

    Kahoot! Audience participation via smartphones

    March 2, 2021

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    Aurora High School

    Band clinic

    March 22, 2022

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    Burr Oak Secondary School

    Band clinic

    March 25, 2022

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    Hodan Nalayeh Secondary School

    Band clinic

    March 25, 2022

  • Buzz

    The American Prize: conductor winners - band/wind ensemble, 2016-17

    March 13, 2017

    The American Prize: conductor winners - band/wind ensemble, 2015

    December 17, 2015

    Conductor's Summit - Wintergreen Performing Arts

    September 10, 2015

    Concert Review: Eastman School of Music Conducting Institute Concert

    July 22, 2011

    Eastman School of Music Conducting Institute Participants - Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra

    July 21, 2011

  • 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
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