Mark Davenport

Joined Faculty in 1998
Associate Professor of Music, Director, Music Program
Director, Recorder Music Center

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Education:

Ph.D., M.M., Musicology, University of Colorado
B.A., Music History & Literature, State University of New York

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Mark Davenport has served on the Music Faculty at Regis since 1998, where he teaches music history and directs the Collegium Musicum. He is also director of the newly established Recorder Music Center (see link above), housed in the Dayton Memorial Library at Regis. Davenport holds M.M. and Ph.D. degrees in Musicology from the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he was the recipient of both the Gordon Getty Foundation Scholarship and the Ogilvy Research Fellowship (Center for British Studies) for his doctoral work on the seventeenth-century English composer William Lawes. His undergraduate work was at Sarah Lawrence College, in Bronxville, New York, and the State University of New York, College at New Paltz, where he received a B.A. in Music History and Literature, summa cum laude. He has taught at the State University of New York, College at New Paltz, the University of Colorado at Boulder, and the Metropolitan State College of Denver.

Davenport’s areas of specialization are in Early Music, American Music, and World Music. His scholarly articles have appeared in The Journal of the Viola Da Gamba Society of America, Early Music America: The Magazine of Historical Performance, American Recorder, and in a chapter of a book entitled William Lawes: Essays on His Life, Times, and Work, published by Ashgate (1998). He has served as Book Review Editor for American Recorder, the journal of the American Recorder Society, and Editor of Early Music Colorado Quarterly. From 1993-1997 he served on the Board of Directors of Early Music Colorado and he is currently on the Board of Directors of the American Recorder Society. He has also edited numerous editions of early music for his music publishing company Landmark Press.

Davenport’s performance background includes working in both the early music and popular music fields. As an instrumentalist, Davenport specializes on Baroque and Renaissance woodwinds. His early career included touring with the internationally acclaimed New York Pro Musica in their production of the thirteenth-century liturgical dram The Play of Daniel. As a recorder soloist he has appeared with both the Colorado Music Festival and Boulder Bach Festival Orchestras. He has also founded several early music ensembles including the Boulder-based Fiori Musicali, with baritone Pat Mason and harpsichordist Jelena Mathys, and Trio Dolce, with gambist Ann Marie Morgan and harpsichordist Phebe Craig. As a contemporary keyboardist, vocalist, songwriter, and producer, Davenport has an extensive performing and recording background with popular groups and projects based in the New York area.

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