Dr. Mark DeMull is an Assistant Professor of Music at North Dakota State University. He is active throughout the upper-Midwest as an orchestral player, chamber musician, soloist, and teaching artist.
Mark's career began in Michigan, where he taught at Alma College and Saginaw Valley State University. During this time, he started performing as an orchestral percussionist and timpanist, and has since played with the Grand Rapids Symphony, Richmond Symphony Orchestra, Virginia Symphony Orchestra, South Dakota Symphony Orchestra, and the Washington National Opera, among others.
Mark is a passionate advocate of new music, and has been involved in numerous commissions from composers such as Alejandro Viñao, James Wood, Cassie Wieland, Ian Power, Natalie Draper, Michael Laurello, and Justin Rito. His album Last Dance is the culmination of a large-scale commissioning project, and it contains seven new pieces for intermediate-level marimba.
Mark's students have been accepted to the Curtis Institute of Music, New England Conservatory, Juilliard School, Cleveland Institute of Music, Manhattan School of Music, and other quality programs across the United States. He earned degrees from Alma College and Michigan State University, and holds his Doctor of Musical Arts from The Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University, where he studied with Robert van Sice.
Mark's career began in Michigan, where he taught at Alma College and Saginaw Valley State University. During this time, he started performing as an orchestral percussionist and timpanist, and has since played with the Grand Rapids Symphony, Richmond Symphony Orchestra, Virginia Symphony Orchestra, South Dakota Symphony Orchestra, and the Washington National Opera, among others.
Mark is a passionate advocate of new music, and has been involved in numerous commissions from composers such as Alejandro Viñao, James Wood, Cassie Wieland, Ian Power, Natalie Draper, Michael Laurello, and Justin Rito. His album Last Dance is the culmination of a large-scale commissioning project, and it contains seven new pieces for intermediate-level marimba.
Mark's students have been accepted to the Curtis Institute of Music, New England Conservatory, Juilliard School, Cleveland Institute of Music, Manhattan School of Music, and other quality programs across the United States. He earned degrees from Alma College and Michigan State University, and holds his Doctor of Musical Arts from The Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University, where he studied with Robert van Sice.
