Mark Vuorinen

Background

About Mark Vuorinen

Canadian conductor, Mark Vuorinen, is Artistic Director and Conductor of Kitchener-Waterloo’s Grand Philharmonic Choir, a symphonic chorus whose repertoire includes the great masterpieces for chorus and orchestra. He is also Assistant Professor of Music at Conrad Grebel University College, where he teaches in the Department of Music and conducts the University of Waterloo Chamber Choir. Mark is a past Music Director of the Toronto Chamber Choir and has given first performances and Canadian premieres of works by many composers, including John Burge, Timothy Corlis, Robinson McLellan, and Tawnie Olsen. He has performed as part of concert series at Toronto’s Music Gallery and has given an all-night performance of Joby Talbot’s moving Path of Miracles, as part of Toronto’s Nuit Blanche Arts Festival. Since becoming Artistic Director of the Grand Philharmonic Choir, Vuorinen has maintained the choir’s tradition of performing the trilogy of Bach’s oratorios (Johannes Passion, Matthaus Passion, and Messe in h-moll) on Good Friday. Other recent concert highlights include performances of Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem, Arvo Pärt’s Credo and Richard Einhorn’s moving soundtrack, Voices of light as an accompaniment to the silent film The Passion of Joan of Arc. Mark is a graduate of Yale University’s School of Music and Institute of Sacred Music (Master of Music), where he received full scholarship, and the University of Toronto (Doctor of Musical Arts), where, during his residency, he regularly conducted the University of Toronto MacMillan Singers in performance. Mark is a frequent guest conductor, choral adjudicator and clinician.