Faculty - Dr. Mark Howe
Mark Howe has served as Organist and Director of Music at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul (Episcopal) in Burlington, Vermont since 1999. He has worked with children’s voices over the course of nearly thirty years, serving in Episcopal parishes in Philadelphia, Evanston, Ill., Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and Burlington, and has participated in RSCM courses in Princeton, Valley Forge, and Montreal.
At St. Paul’s Cathedral in Burlington, he leads a large and active choir program; the Cathedral’s Treble Choir started in 2000 with four singers, and has now grown to an ensemble of nearly thirty that sings at the weekly 9:00 Eucharist in addition to offering concerts locally.
As an organist Mr. Howe has performed in the northeastern U.S., the Chicago area, France, and Belgium. His Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in organ are from Westminster Choir College and Yale University respectively; he studied at the RSCM when it was housed at Addington Palace in Croydon, UK, and he holds a Ph.D. in musicology from New York University. His organ teachers were Harriette Slack Richardson, William Hays and Thomas Murray.
