Mark Alan Wade
| Mark Alan Wade | |
|---|---|
| Born | Marysville, Ohio |
| Origin | Ohio, United States |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, professor |
| Instruments | Trumpet, hammered dulcimer |
| Website | www |
Mark Alan Wade is a professor of trumpet and hammered dulcimer player from Ohio, United States.
Mark Wade is a professional musician from Marysville, Ohio. His primary musical and scholarly output is orchestral trumpet performance, wind ensemble conducting, dulcimer performance and pedagogy. A well-rounded musician, Dr. Wade is a professor of music at Denison University where he teaches trumpet, music theory, dulcimer, and directs the Wind Ensemble. He first joined the faculty of Denison University as affiliate instructor of trumpet in August 2006. Since that time, Wade completed his D.M.A. in trumpet performance at The Ohio State University, where he studied with Timothy Leasure. Prior to his appointment as Graduate Teaching Associate at The Ohio State University, Wade received his Bachelor of Music from Ohio Wesleyan University (1999), studying trumpet with Dr. Larry Griffin, and his Master of Music from The Ohio State University. Wade won the D.M.A. Concerto Competition and appeared with the Ohio State University Symphony Orchestra as a soloist during the 2006/2007 season. His other trumpet teachers are William Adam (Indiana University), Richard Burkart (Ohio State University) and Adam Gordon (Fort Worth Symphony). Wade is a performing artist with Powell Trumpets, Elkhart Indiana.
Wade has performed on different occasions for Presidents William Clinton & George Bush Sr., Ross Perot, and the former U.S. Secretary of Defense, William S. Cohen. While pursuing his Master of Music, Wade toured Austria, Slovakia and Hungary as co-principal trumpet with the Classical Music Festival Orchestra of Eisenstadt, Austria. He also served at Second Trumpet of the Classical Music Festival Orchestra in the Summer of 2014. During this tour, Wade performed two concertos for two trumpets along with Dr. James Bovinette and Dr. David Heller. In the genre of pops music, he has also performed with the Beach Boys and The Buckinghams.
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