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Mark Lortz is band
and orchestra director at Westminster High School in Westminster,
Maryland, where he directs the orchestra, concert and marching bands,
percussion ensemble, color guard, and electronic and computer music
program. Under his leadership, the school’s music department has
received awards from MENC and the Maryland MEA for exemplary music
programs, and was selected as a national semifinalist GRAMMY
Signature School. The marching band has also won titles at numerous
regional band competitions.
Mr. Lortz earned
degrees from the Peabody Conservatory of Music at Johns Hopkins
University, majoring in percussion performance, music education, and
composition. He has performed with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra,
Baltimore Chamber Symphony, Baltimore Choral Arts Society, Baltimore
Opera Orchestra, the Gettysburg Symphony, the Dallas Brass, the New
York Pops Orchestra, and in orchestras with various concert and
theatrical productions.
Mr. Lortz’s
original music, arrangements, and transcriptions have been premiered
at the Midwest Clinic and the BOA National Percussion Festival, and
by universities, music schools, conservatories, and high schools
across the nation. He is the front ensemble coordinator and arranger
for the DCA world champion Reading Buccaneers Drum and Bugle Corps,
and has arranged marching band music for high schools and colleges
throughout the country.
Mr. Lortz is
constantly in demand as an adjudicator, clinician, and guest
conductor, and is a marching percussion specialist and scholastic
educator for the Vic Firth Percussion Education Program. In 2006, Mr.
Lortz was recognized by School Band & Orchestra magazine as one
of 50 Directors Who Make a Difference. |
