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.