Mark Cudek received his B.F.A. from State University of New York at Buffalo and his M.M. at Peabody Conservatory. Mark is a founding member of the Baltimore Consort and is currently the Director of the Early Music Department at the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University and the Artistic Director of the Interlochen Early Music Workshop and the Indianapolis Early Music Festival.
Mark has been a guest artist with the Catacoustic Consort, Hesperus, Folger Consort, Western Wind, Piffaro, Pomerium and Apollo's Fire. Early Music America's 2001 recipient of the Thomas Binkley Award for Outstanding Collegium Director and 2005 Award for Outstanding Contributions to Early Music Education. Top prize winner, first annual Baltimore Chamber Music Competition. Appearances at the Boston Early Music Festival; Tage Alter Music, Regensburg; Glasgow International Early Music Festival; Vienna Konzerthaus; Teatro Nacional, Panama; New York Metropolitan Museum; Spoleto Festival, Charleston; and the Kennedy Center. Radio appearances on NPR, CBC and BBC. Television appearance on CNN's "World Beat. "Performed for "Hunter's Moon" and "Sleepy Hollow" sound tracks. Former faculty, College of the Virgin Islands, Towson University.
