Mark is an award winning musician, composer, musical director and lecturer whose work spans across the categories of folk, blues, electronic and world roots music. For the last eighteen years he has divided his time between education, composition and performance participating in, and organising, hundreds of community music projects in schools, care homes, hospitals, detention centres, refuges and day centres. He is also musical director of the, Queen’s Award nominated, performance group ‘Time Spanners’. As an Associate Lecturer at the Henley College he is responsible for the management of augmentative and assistive communication aids and lead lecturer in the implementation of a ‘music to aid communication’ programme in the Pathways department. He has a special interest in working with students on the Autistic spectrum.