Mark Ruhnke
Interim Director of Music
Mark R
uhnke has been hired as an interim Director of Music beginning January 1, 2010. Presently, he is a student at Emmanuel College and plans to graduate in May 2010 with a Master of Sacred Music Degree. This 2-year degree was offered for the first time last year and Mark is the first student to have been enrolled in this new exciting program.
He studied in the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto, where his focus was in Music Education culminating in an A.R.C.T.diploma in voice.
His home church is Zion-Wexford United Church in Scarborough, where he provided leadership in music for 14 years. At the same time, he was an educator for the Toronto District School Board. He taught for 12 years in Scarborough schools.
Since 2000 music opportunities have included: Minister of Music at Aurora United Church, Music Director at Willowbank Resort in Bermuda, adjudicator for the Sunderland Music Festival and the York Region Music Alive Festival, guest choral clinician for the One Voice Choir in Uxbridge, choral clinician and composer for a day at Faith United Church, Director of Music for the Lutheran Ashram summer pro-gram in Minnesota at St. John’s University, guest soloist at the Doctors Without Borders Benefit Concerts, to name a few!