Faculty

MARK CHAMBERS

BMus (Toronto), MMus (Auburn), DMA (Florida State)
Assistant Professor: Orchestra, conducting, string performance
Department of Music, York University

chamber1@yorku.ca

Mark Chambers is a conductor, cellist and early music specialist. He studied cello with Martha Gerschefski, Lubomir Georgiev and David Miller, and has performed extensively in the United States and Ontario as both a chamber musician and orchestral player.

At York, Dr. Chambers directs the York University Symphony Orchestra and the Baroque Ensemble. He performs in a piano trio with his faculty colleague Christina Petrowska Quilico and his wife Heather Chambers, and is also very active as a clinician and adjudicator throughout southern Ontario.

A former Theodore Presser Foundation Fellow, Dr. Chambers' research interests include Baroque music, period instrument performance practice, the 'Tartini Tone', and scordatura, altered tunings for strings. He has authored several articles for the American String Teachers Journal and is a contributor to the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.

Prior to his appointment at York, Dr. Chambers taught for nine years at Eastern Kentucky University, where he performed as a member of the Faculty Piano Trio and the Faculty String Quartet. He joined York's Department of Music in 2005.