ART IS THE CONTEMPLATION OF THE WORLD IN A STATE OF GRACE
- Hermann Hesse

John Martin Marks, a native of Baltimore, Maryland, began his career as a church organist at the age of sixteen. Mr. Marks attended Westminster Choir College where his teachers included Mark Brombaugh, George Markey, and Eugene Roan (Organ), Frauke Haasemann and Allen Crowell (Choral Conducting), Erik Routley and Fr. Gerard Farrell, O.S.B. (Church Music), and Stefan Young and Harold Zabrack (Composition).

Mr. Marks was appointed Associate Organist at The Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Baltimore in 1986. While there, he founded SINE NOMINE, a chamber choir specializing in Medieval and Renaissance music, which he directed for the next ten years. After holding a number of other church positions in the Baltimore area,He was named Director of Music and Organist at Grace and St. Peter's in 1997, after a year of teaching at the parish school and serving as organist for daily chapel services.

Mr. Marks continues to teach, and has written incidental music for the school's productions of Shakespeare's plays "The Tempest," "A Midsummer Night's Dream," "As You Like It," "Twelfth Night," and "Macbeth." Since 1999, he has produced a series of works entitled "Gnomes and Chimeras," which are designed for listening over the internet. His interests include collecting and playing recorders and vintage flutes, Antiques (especially the Arts and Crafts movement), web design, and science fiction.

Mr. Marks is a member of The American Guild of Organists and The International Kodaly Society.

You are hearing "Whither's Rocking Hymn" in a version for MIDI string orchestra.

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GRACE AND SAINT PETER'S PARISH

Information on the 1922 Austin Organ and the music program.

copyright 2002 John Martin Marks