Mark Fewer
Biographie Mark Fewer
Mark Fewer
Over a three decades plus career, Mark Fewer has performed in prominent concert halls across the world, including Carnegie, Wigmore, and Salle Pleyel, as well as smaller venues like Bartók House (Budapest), the Forum (Taipei), and Le Poisson Rouge (NYC). He has appeared as a featured guest soloist with diverse ensembles and artists, including the Zapp Quartet of Amsterdam and the Fodens-Richardson Brass Band (UK), the Chieftains, and Stevie Wonder and his band, along with symphony orchestras from Toronto to Melbourne, Australia, and back.
His repertoire includes everything from the Baroque to new works. Mark has premiered more than 200 works, including over 50 that were composed specifically for him. He plays jazz as well as Western classical music, and has performed with luminaries in that field such as Dave Young, Brad Turner, Jodi Proznick, Jim Doxas, Jan Jarczyk, Pekka Kuusisto, Suba Sankaran, and Aaron Davis, among others.
He is a prolific recording artist, and his contributions have appeared on albums that have won multiple JUNO Awards, one GRAMMY, a Prix Opus, and an ECMA for Best Instrumental Recording of the Year for his own 2024 album Alikeness.
As a performer, Mark has served as concertmaster of the Vancouver Symphony, Artist-in-Residence at Stanford University, William Dawson Scholar at McGill University, and Artist-in-Residence at the Glamorgan Festival in Wales.
Fewer is also a dedicated chamber musician. He was a founding member of the Duke Piano Trio, a violinist with the SuperNova and St. Lawrence String Quartets, and an original member of the ARC Ensemble. He is currently first violinist of the Axelrod String Quartet at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. The Axelrod String Quartet performs and records exclusively on Stradivari and Amati instruments from the museum’s collection.
Mark was the founding Artistic Director of the SweetWater Music Festival, and is now in his eighth season in the same role at Stratford Summer Music. He is an Associate Professor of Violin at the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto.
