BIOGRAPHY

Mark Irvin is a music educator, singer/songwriter, recording artist, and freelance musician from Omaha, Nebraska. Mark was a self-taught musician out of high school and then spent most of the next decade (the 1980’s) working as a musician, both solo and with several bands. As part of the band Tight Fit, Mark was inducted into the Nebraska Music Hall of Fame in 2010. Mark entered college in 1989 at the University of Nebraska Omaha where he earned a BA in Music Education in 1994. In 2011 Mark received his Masters Degree in Education In Curriculum and Instruction from Doane University. Mark has recorded one EP and three full length albums dating back to the early 2000’s. He continues to work solo and group dates in support of his music as well as free-lancing for other groups in the area. After a thirty year career, Mark retired from teaching at the end 2022. His teaching career included 12 years as a high school band director and 17 as a middle school band director. Schools he taught at include Irving Middle School, La Vista Middle School, Gretna, Platteview, Table Rock and Tecumseh High Schools. Along with directing concert, marching and jazz band, he also taught guitar, World Music Drumming and history of rock classes. Mark will continue to teach at Metro Area Community Colleges as well as doing clinics and directing honor bands across the Midwest.