Dr. Mark Runkles - Saxophone & Oboe

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Appointed in 2015 as an Instructor of Oboe and Saxophone with Opus Community Music School and a Faculty Clinician with Academy of St. Cecilia Youth Orchestra in Damascus, Mark Runkles completed his Doctor of Musical Arts in Oboe Performance at UNLV. Dr. Runkles earned his Master of Fine Arts in Oboe Performance and Master of Arts in Jazz

Studies from the University of Iowa and his Bachelor of Arts in Oboe Performance from St. Mary’s College of Maryland.

He formed the Twin Arch Duo, which plays a mixture of standards and his own contemporary jazz compositions with guitarist Charlie Trapp in 2013. In 2008, Dr. Runkles performed a series of Jazz Vespers services in Scotland. He served as the Assistant Principal Oboe with the Chesapeake Orchestra from 1999–2004 and performed on 2nd Oboe with the Las Vegas Philharmonic from the winter of 2009 through 2012.

Dr. Runkles is an oboe student of Stephen Caplan, Mark Weiger, and Vladimir Lande and a saxophone student of John Rapson and Don Stapleson.