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Contemporary American

O’CONNOR, Mark

Mark O'Connor on stage at the Cambridge Folk Festival, July 1985. Photograph by Tony Rees.

Composer Website

Born in Seattle, Washington, August 5, 1961

  • Mark O’Connor was born in Seattle and now resides in North Carolina.
  • O’Connor has won 3 Grammy awards and 7 CMA awards.
  • O’Connor performs regularly with the Mark O’Connor Band, in which he is joined by his wife, son and daughter-in-law, all musicians.
  • Works by O’Connor include his Fiddle Concerto (the most-performed violin concerto among those composed in the last 50 years) and his Americana Symphony.1

Sources

  1. “Biography,” Mark O’Connor.com, accessed December 10, 2019, https://www.markoconnor.com/bio.

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