| All Souls Unitarian Church Staff Biographies |
| Mark B. Doerries Director of Music |
Mark Brennan Doerries is an advocate of multi-sensory and multimedia music and
performance. In 2004 Doerries founded the Luminescence Project, an ensemble
dedicated to the performance, composition, and research of multi-sensory music. The
Luminescence Project has performed in the Philadelphia Live Arts and Fringe Festival,
at the Indiana University Art Museum, and as part of the 2008 Bloomington Arts
Festival. In addition to performing, Doerries is active as an invited speaker and has
presented papers at the Festival 500 Choral Conference in Newfoundland, CA and
the 2009 Hawaii International Conference on the Humanities on the confluence of
visual and aural performance arts. In the Fall of 2009, Doerries will speak at the
Modern Language Association's Annual Conference on Music in the Deep South and
at the Conference on the Music of William Grant Still in Natchez, MS. Doerries is
completing a doctorate in conducting at Indiana University and holds a masters degree
from Temple University in Philadelphia, additional graduate work in music theory from
Queen’s College, City University of New York, and degrees in music and biology
from the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, VA. Doerries also studied
conducting and German in Frieburg, Germany and at Bard College, NY.
Mr. Doerries’ productions include a staged performance of J.S. Bach’s St. John
Passion with electrified instruments and his own liturgical drama Songs of Searching.
In August 2009, Doerries traveled to Sao Paulo, Brazil with a multi-media production
of Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana with the University of Sao Paulo chorus and orchestra.
performance. In 2004 Doerries founded the Luminescence Project, an ensemble
dedicated to the performance, composition, and research of multi-sensory music. The
Luminescence Project has performed in the Philadelphia Live Arts and Fringe Festival,
at the Indiana University Art Museum, and as part of the 2008 Bloomington Arts
Festival. In addition to performing, Doerries is active as an invited speaker and has
presented papers at the Festival 500 Choral Conference in Newfoundland, CA and
the 2009 Hawaii International Conference on the Humanities on the confluence of
visual and aural performance arts. In the Fall of 2009, Doerries will speak at the
Modern Language Association's Annual Conference on Music in the Deep South and
at the Conference on the Music of William Grant Still in Natchez, MS. Doerries is
completing a doctorate in conducting at Indiana University and holds a masters degree
from Temple University in Philadelphia, additional graduate work in music theory from
Queen’s College, City University of New York, and degrees in music and biology
from the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, VA. Doerries also studied
conducting and German in Frieburg, Germany and at Bard College, NY.
Mr. Doerries’ productions include a staged performance of J.S. Bach’s St. John
Passion with electrified instruments and his own liturgical drama Songs of Searching.
In August 2009, Doerries traveled to Sao Paulo, Brazil with a multi-media production
of Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana with the University of Sao Paulo chorus and orchestra.
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