Mark Armstrong is one of Ireland’s most accomplished and versatile musicians.  A love of choral music commenced at an early age as a boy chorister and developed through his years in Trinity College Dublin where he was invited to direct the College Singers, a sixteen voice chamber choir and Musica Sacra, a choral group specialising in works of the high Baroque.  Mark is also an accomplished arranger for choir, wind band and orchestra, an award-winning published composer of choral music and producer of recordings for many of Ireland’s foremost artists.

Guest conducting engagements have included concert performances and recordings with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, RTÉ Concert Orchestra, Irish Chamber Orchestra, Opera Theatre Company, Irish Film Orchestra, RTÉ Chamber Choir, RTE Philharmonic Choir, National Chamber Choir, and RTÉ Cór na nÓg.  Mark has been musical director of both Dún Laoghaire Choral Society and Tallaght Choral Society and has conducted collaborative concert performances with the Liverpool Welsh Choral Union (Requiem – G. Verdi) and the Edinburgh Royal Choral Union (German Requiem – J. Brahms). He has been a board member of the Association of Irish Choirs and has acted as conducting tutor on conducting courses run by AOIC.

Mark currently holds the appointment of Director of the Defence Forces School of Music in the rank of Lieutenant Colonel with responsibility for the administration, policy, planning, programming and musical direction of Ireland’s military bands.

Mark will be teaching the Transition Level