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Alain De Rudder
trumpet

Steven Verhaert
trumpet

Eliz Erkalp
horn

Jan Smets
trombone

Mark Reynolds
tuba

 

Mark Reynolds
Mark Reynolds was born in Scotland and began to play the tuba at the age of fourteen. After two years of training at the Junior Department of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, he was selected to continue his studies there under the guidance of Tony Swainson. In 1995 he obtained a B.A. degree in Musical Studies. He completed his postgraduate studies at the Richard Strauss Konservatorium in Munich (Germany) under the guidance of Tom Walsh.
Mark has played in, among others, the Münchner Philharmoniker, the Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, the Bayerische Staatsoper, NDR Sinfonieorchester Hamburg, the orchestra of De Munt, the Vlaams Radio Orkest, the Scottish National Orchestra, the B.B.C. Scottish Symphony Orchestra and the Jeunesses Musicales World Orchestra. In 1999 he was awarded a place in the Orchestra Academy of the Munich Philharmonic.
He has premiered many works, including pieces written for the World Brass Ensemble by such composers as Jan Koetsier and Mauricio Kagel. He is also active in the world of contemporary music and chamber music, and is active with such groups as the Hermes Ensemble and Champ d'Action. Mark is also a member of the World Brass Ensemble.
In 2001 he started work as the solo tuba with deFilharmonie in Antwerp.