Faculty Biography

Mark Maynor, Lecturer


Contact:
(585) 389-2700


Departmental Responsibilities:
Percussion Techniques
Language of Music


Education:
University of Akron, MM
Baldwin Wallace College, BM

Biography:
Mark Maynor was born in Avon Lake, OH, in 1961. He moved to Hudson in 1974 and graduated from Hudson High School in 1979. He attended Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, OH, and earned his bachelor's in music performance in 1984. He earned a master's in music performance from the University of Akron in 1986. From 1986 to 1990, he performed and recorded with the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, the Akron Symphony, and the New Music Associates at Cleveland State University. He also freelanced playing drum set in various jazz groups and shows around Northeast Ohio. He has instructed private students of all ages since 1980 and has been teaching at the college level since 1991. In August of 2004, he moved to Rochester (NY), where he teaches at the Rochester Institute of Technology and Nazareth College and offers private lessons at his home.

Mr. Maynor will be taking a leave of absence for the 2007-08 school year to accompany his wife to Berlin. She was awarded a ten month grant to research her dissertation.