MARK HUSEY
CONDUCTOR, ORGANIST, ACCOMPANIST & TENOR
Mark Husey [hue-zee] has been widely acclaimed as "a musical Renaissance man" for his gifts as conductor, organist, accompanist, and tenor. A native of rural Harford County, Maryland, he now resides in Miami, Florida, where he maintains an active teaching and performing career.
The recipient of both academic and performance scholarships from Westminster Choir College and Yale, Mr. Husey holds the Master of Arts degree from Saint Joseph’s College in Rensselaer, Indiana. He has been greatly influenced by the work and pedagogy of Joseph Flummerfelt, Lawrence Heiman C.PP.S., Lois Laverty, Eugene Roan, and Glenn Parker.
As a conductor, Mr. Husey is a devoted advocate of the pastoral and catechetical use of historic choral repertory. His method of choral training has enabled his liturgical ensembles of both children and adults to have access to the realm of scholarly sacred choral literature. His choirs have performed at Washington National Cathedral, on CBS This Morning, and in the PBS documentary The Jew in the Lotus. A list of the major works he has conducted appears through this link.
 As an organist, Mr. Husey received first prizes in the 1991 Music Teachers' National Association Organ Competition in Miami, and in the 1993 Baltimore-Washington American Guild of Organists Young Artists Competition. He has performed in Belgium, the Netherlands, Finland, Sweden, Estonia, the Czech Republic, and on BBC2 Radio. Mr. Husey holds the distinction of being one of the few organists reviewed in Opera News magazine. His 1996 performance of Tchaikovsky's “Iolanta” with the Opera Camerata of Washington was proclaimed “astonishing” for his imaginative realization of the orchestral score.
As accompanist to Cantors Faith Steinsnyder and David Perper, Mr. Husey has performed in Cantors Assembly conventions at Kutscher's Resort and Carnegie Hall in New York . He has played continuo with New Trinity Baroque, the Columbia Pro Cantare, and the National Chamber Orchestra. Mr. Husey was pianist and co-producer for the Atlanta premier of Lee Hoiby's setting of Dr. Martin Luther King's “I have a dream,” performed in February 2003 with soprano Sabrina Coleman Clark.
Mr. Husey has appeared twice as tenor soloist in Festival dei due Mondi productions in Spoleto, Italy . He received critical acclaim from The Washington Post for a 1996 performance of “Stabat Mater” settings of Pärt and Scarlatti. A tenor in the Grammy-winning Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus, he was featured in a solo octet in Mendelssohn's “Elijah,” broadcasted on National Public Radio in 2002.
Mr. Husey is on the faculty rosters of the schools of music at the University of Miami and Florida International University, where he assists with their choral and vocal studies departments, respectively. As organist and harpsichordist, he performs with former members of the Florida Philharmonic Orchestra via the Master Chorale of South Florida, the Miami Bach Society, and the Tropical Baroque Festival Orchestra. A tenor in the professional chorus of Florida Grand Opera, he is also tenor soloist and cantor at the Cathedral of Saint Mary in Miami.
E-mail: MARKHUSEY@aol.com
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