A music teacher for 12 years, Mark has been helping students reach their potential by cultivating in them a sense of excitement about music, along with intelligent time saving practice methods.

An innovative composer/performer/multi-instrumentalist, Mark has achieved a moderate degree of International attention for what one reviewer called 'his bold ideas about music and it's forgotten boundlessness'.

He is the inventor of an instrument called the ‘Piantar’ which involves playing the guitar and piano simultaneously, as well as a virtuoso electric guitarist with a chameleon like voice.
Mark is also the originator of a new approach to improvisation on Acoustic guitar, that makes use of 'random alternate tunings', and which employs various original playing techniques. Additionally, he performs similar improvisations on piano which he calls 'Dancing Squirrel Music'. Two years ago Mark adopted the stage name 'Wakan' when performing these types of radical improvisations. The word 'Wakan' means 'Heart of the Sky' in Mayan and 'sacred' in Lakota.

He has appeared on Much Music, a Hollywood minute on CNN, in Keyboard Magazine , and CBC radio among many others.

Mark has released 3 albums of original music: 'Piantarist' (1994), 'The Light of Day' (2000), and 'The Elements of Chance' (2002)

He is currently working on a new contemporary Jazz album with Classical/Jazz vocalist LoraLee McGuirl.