Cox, Mark

Dr. Cox has performed with numerous professional organizations, including the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra (NY), Midland (MI), and Penfield (NY) Symphony Orchestras principal tubist, and Syracuse Symphony (NY) and the New World Symphony Orchestra (FL) as substitute tubist. He has held faculty positions at the Eastman School of Music; State University of New York at Geneseo; and Nazareth College (Rochester, NY). In the summer, he has held the position of tuba and euphonium instructor at the New England Music Camp, a summer music institute in Maine for talented high school musicians.​

Dr. Cox is a board member and has judged for the Leonard Falcone International Euphonium and Tuba Solo Competition. He is also member of T.U.BA. and the music fraternity Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia. His teachers have included Cherry Beauregard, professor of tuba and euphonium at the Eastman School of Music, principal tubist with the Rochester Philharmonic and tubist with Eastman Brass Quintet; Arnold Jacobs, tubist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and breathing guru; Ronald Bishop, principal tubist with the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra; Rex Conner, professor of tuba at the University of Kentucky at Lexington and instruct​or of tuba and euphonium at the National Music Camp at Interlochen, Michigan; and Roger Bobo, international recording artist and principal tubist with the Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra. Dr. Cox has performed in most of the major concert halls in the United States, Germany, and Japan and has performed with numerous international performers including trumpeters Wynton Marsalis and Randy Brecker; saxophonists Branford Marsalis and John Herle, flutist James Galway, pianists Shera Sherkaski and Jeffrey Jacob, trombonist J.J. Johnson, and drummer Max Roach. 

Recordings on which Dr. Cox can be heard include Carnaval with Wynton Marsalis (CBS Masterworks); Pied Piper Fantasy with James Galway (Sony); Live in Osaka with the Eastman Wind Ensemble (Sony), Chorale Works of Anton Bruckner with the Roberts Wesleyan College Chorale; Music of Ingolf Dahl, with the New World Symphony Orchestra; and the music education series Jump Right In (G.A.A. Publications). Dr. Cox gives seminars on teaching, performing, and offers his popular seminar, “Proper Breathing Techniques for Musicians,” throughout the United States. Dr. Cox’s students are active throughout Michigan and the United States, both as public school teachers and professional performers. His former students have won the Yamaha Young Artists Competition; placed in the artist division of the Leonard Falcone International Solo Competition; are members of Pershings’ Own, the top United States Army Band; and have had numerous solo performances around the nation. Mark Cox is a Yamaha performing artist.​

Recent Scholarship

Yamaha Artist; Created a Standardized List of Solos for the International Tuba and Euphonium Association.​