
Director Mark Reppert
Mark
Reppert studied conducting, composition, piano, and music history at the
University of Southern California, graduating with a degree in Music
History. He was a member of the University Symphony, the Opera Chorus,
and the Trojan Marching Band. He also met his wife, Marilyn, while
attending USC. They were married in 1971.
Mr. Reppert received a master’s
degree in piano performance from Cal State University, Chico, graduating
with distinction. While attending Cal State, he soloed with the Shasta
Symphony as the winner of the Shasta Symphony Solo Competition. He also
soloed with the Paradise Symphony and performed numerous solo recitals.
Mr. Reppert began his teaching
career at Paradise Intermediate School in Paradise, California in 1975,
the year his son, Joshua, was born. His daughter, Lupine, was born
three years later. For 23 years in California, he taught a variety of
music to all levels of students from kindergarten to college, including
band, orchestra, elementary music, college music appreciation, community
choir, and both high school and middle school choir. Mr. Reppert
recently retired after 10 years as choral director at North Medford High
School, where his award winning choirs were an important part of the
musical community, performing in many venues including at the annual
Renaissance Dinner. In addition to his responsibilities as choral
director at North Medford High, he was also the music director for
numerous musical theater productions including “Into the Woods”, “The
King and I”, and “Fiddler on the Roof.”
Mr. Reppert is now an active
musician in the Rogue Valley. He is conductor and artistic director for
the Siskiyou Singers, a 120-voice community choir based in Ashland. As
the resident music director at Camelot Theater in Talent, he has worked
on productions of “Cabaret” and “Secret Garden”. He has also performed
as a singer and accompanist for the Rogue Valley Chorale. He
accompanies for the Jefferson State Choral Coalition under the direction
of Kirby Shaw, and works as a musician in many other capacities around
the Rogue Valley.
Past Director Dave Marston
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DAVE MARSTON
Monday night (June 22, 2009) at 9:00 p.m.,
our choral conductor, artistic director, teacher, mentor, songleader,
and friend, Dave Marston passed peacefully from this world.
Dave led the Siskiyou Singers for twenty-one years. His interpretation
of and passion for choral music was unsurpassed. Our loss is immense.
“I have thought many times in these
past weeks how hard it was to imagine a world without Dave in it.
I realized this morning that the reason it's hard to imagine is
because there's no such thing. This world will never be without
Dave. He's so clearly and absolutely present in the spirit of everything
he gave in his life - every person he loved, taught, mentored, gave
support to; every gift of music and empowerment he bestowed upon
his friends, his family, his community; every note he sang, played
or conducted that entered the hearts of people receiving the gift
he was giving them. And by his very nature, he encouraged us all
- obligated us all - to pay it forward. Those ripples will flow
through generations, and what Dave Marston gave in his life will
never leave this world.” Tami Marston
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