Mark O'Connor (born August 5, 1961) is an American
fiddle
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player, composer, guitarist, and mandolinist whose music combines
bluegrass,
country
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,
jazz
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and
classical. A three-time
Grammy Award
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winner, he has won six
Country Music Association Musician Of The Year awards and was a member of three influential
musical ensemble
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s: the
David Grisman Quintet,
The Dregs, and
Strength in Numbers.
O'Connor has released 45 albums, of mostly original music, over a 45-year career. He has recorded and performed mostly his original American Classical music for decades. An expert at traditionally-based fiddle and bluegrass music, he also plays other instruments proficiently, including the violin, guitar and mandolin. He has appeared on 450 albums, composed nine concertos and has put together groundbreaking ensembles. His mentors have included
Benny Thomasson who taught O'Connor to fiddle as a teenager, French jazz violinist
Stéphane Grappelli
Stéphane Grappelli (; 26 January 1908 – 1 December 1997) was a French jazz violinist. He is best known as a founder of the Quintette du Hot Club de France with guitarist Django Reinhardt in 1934. It was one of the first all-string jazz bands. ...
with whom O'Connor toured as a teenager, and guitarists
Chet Atkins
Chester Burton Atkins (June 20, 1924 – June 30, 2001), also known as "Mister Guitar" and "the Country Gentleman", was an American musician who, along with Owen Bradley and Bob Ferguson (musician), Bob Ferguson, helped create the Nash ...
,
Doc Watson
Arthel Lane "Doc" Watson (March 3, 1923 – May 29, 2012) was an American guitarist, songwriter, and singer of bluegrass, folk, country, blues, and gospel music. He won seven Grammy awards as well as a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. His ...
and
Steve Morse
Steve J. Morse (born July 28, 1954) is an American guitarist and songwriter. A seven-time Grammy nominee, he is best known as the founder of the Dixie Dregs and as the longest serving guitarist for Deep Purple. Morse also enjoyed a successful ...
.
Early life
O'Connor was born and raised in the suburb of
Mountlake Terrace, Washington, where his father was a construction worker and his mother was a dance teacher.
His mother insisted that he learn to play the guitar at the age of five and, by the age of ten had taught himself to play the
Flamenco guitar.
As an eight-year-old in 1969, O'Connor watched fiddle player
Doug Kershaw
Douglas James Kershaw (born January 24, 1936) is an American fiddle player, singer, and songwriter from Louisiana. Active since 1948, he began his career as part of the duo Rusty and Doug, along with his brother, Rusty Kershaw. He had an exte ...
perform the song "
Diggy Liggy Lo" on ''
The Johnny Cash Show
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'', leaving such an impression on him that he begged his parents to purchase him a fiddle for the next three years before they finally gave him one for his eleventh birthday.
In 1973, O'Connor's mother drove him and his little sister from Seattle to Nashville, Tennessee, where a local friend suggested that he might be allowed to play at the Picking Parlour.
His performance at the Picking Parlour left the local audience stunned that a twelve-year-old knew so many old-time fiddle songs.
A couple of days later, he made his
Grand Ole Opry
The ''Grand Ole Opry'' is a regular live country music, country-music Radio broadcasting, radio broadcast originating from Nashville, Tennessee, Nashville, Tennessee, on WSM (AM), WSM, held between two and five nights per week, depending on the ...
debut, introduced by
Roy Acuff
Roy Claxton Acuff (September 15, 1903 – November 23, 1992) was an American country music singer, fiddler, and promoter. Known as the "King of Country Music", Acuff is often credited with moving the genre from its early string band and "hoedown ...
, and became the youngest musician to sign a recording contract with
Rounder Records
Rounder Records is an independent record label founded in 1970 in Somerville, Massachusetts, by Marian Leighton Levy, Ken Irwin, and Bill Nowlin. Focused on American roots music, Rounder's catalogue of more than 3000 titles includes records by A ...
.
O'Connor won national titles on the fiddle, guitar, and mandolin as a teenager.
In 1975, at the age of thirteen, O'Connor won the
WSM (AM)
WSM (650 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station, located in Nashville, Tennessee. It broadcasts a country music format (with classic country and Americana (music), Americana leanings, the latter of which is branded as "Route 650") and is known as ...
,
Tennessee
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, and
Grand Ole Opry
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sponsored Grand Masters Fiddle Championships in
Nashville, Tennessee
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, against amateur and professional competitors of all ages.
That same year he won another national championship on acoustic guitar, at the
National Flat Pick Guitar Championship in
Winfield, Kansas
Winfield is a city and county seat of Cowley County, Kansas, United States. It is situated along the Walnut River in South Central Kansas. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 11,777. It is home to Southwestern College.
...
.
After graduating from the
Mountlake Terrace High School in 1979, O'Connor joined the
David Grisman Quintet as the replacement for guitar player,
Tony Rice, and went out on tour with Stephane Grappelli with whom he performed at
Carnegie Hall
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when he was only seventeen-years-old.
As a teenager, he was also a member of the seminal instrumental group The Dregs, previously known as
Dixie Dregs
Dixie Dregs is an American rock band from Augusta, Georgia. Formed in 1970, the band is known for instrumental music that fuses elements of rock, classical music, country music, country, jazz and bluegrass music, bluegrass into an eclectic sou ...
.
At age 19, He won the
Buck White International Mandolin Championship in
Kerrville, Texas
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. He is a four-time grand champion (1979, 1980, 1981 and 1984) at the
National Oldtime Fiddlers' Contest in
Weiser, Idaho. Several of his teenage albums are noteworthy and inspired a generation of young acoustic musicians, such as "Pickin' In The Wind", "A Texas Jam Session", "Markology" and "False Dawn".
Musical career
O'Connor composes, arranges, and records American music in genres that include folk, classical, and jazz. His works include concertos, and compositions for
orchestra
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* String instruments, such as the violin, viola, cello, ...
,
string quartet
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s,
string trios,
choral music
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, solo unaccompanied pieces, folk and bluegrass ensemble and a
symphony
A symphony is an extended musical composition in Western classical music, most often for orchestra. Although the term has had many meanings from its origins in the ancient Greek era, by the late 18th century the word had taken on the meaning c ...
(see
Compositions). After releasing six albums as a teen on
Rounder Records
Rounder Records is an independent record label founded in 1970 in Somerville, Massachusetts, by Marian Leighton Levy, Ken Irwin, and Bill Nowlin. Focused on American roots music, Rounder's catalogue of more than 3000 titles includes records by A ...
, O'Connor signed a long term record deal with
Warner Bros. Records
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in Nashville. He released a series of instrumental albums such as "Elysian Forest" and "On The Mark" as well as teaming up with
Bela Fleck,
Sam Bush,
Jerry Douglas
Gerald Calvin Douglas (born May 28, 1956) is an American Dobro and lap steel guitar player and record producer. He is widely regarded as "perhaps the finest Dobro player in contemporary acoustic music, and certainly the most celebrated and prol ...
and
Edgar Meyer for "Strength In Numbers". His first award winning albums that catapulted him into the international stage include "New Nashville Cats" and "Heroes" both released on
Warner Bros.
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O'Connor's "Fiddle Concerto (1992)", a
violin concerto
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in
American fiddle style commission by the
Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, has been performed over 250 times, making it one of the most performed concertos written in the last 50 years. The recording of the concerto was conducted by
Marin Alsop and "Concordia Orchestra".
In 1993, O'Connor teamed up with
Charlie Daniels to record a sequel to Daniels' 1979 single "
The Devil Went Down to Georgia" entitled "The Devil Comes Back To Georgia". O'Connor and Daniels recorded the song alongside
Johnny Cash
John R. Cash (born J. R. Cash; February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003) was an American singer-songwriter. Most of his music contains themes of sorrow, moral tribulation, and redemption, especially songs from the later stages of his career. ...
,
Marty Stuart
John Marty Stuart (born September 30, 1958) is an American country music, country and bluegrass music singer, songwriter, and musician. Active since 1968, Stuart initially toured with Lester Flatt, and then in Johnny Cash's road band before be ...
and
Travis Tritt
James Travis Tritt (born February 9, 1963) is an American country music, country singer-songwriter. He signed to Warner Bros. Records in 1989, releasing seven studio albums and a greatest hits package for the label between then and 1999. In t ...
. The song was on O'Connor's album,
''Heroes''. Between 1995 and 2000, O'Connor teamed up with
Yo-Yo Ma
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and
Edgar Meyer to release "Appalachia Waltz" and "Appalachian Journey" spending nearly 2 years at the top of the classical music Billboard charts.
In 1996, O'Connor composed ''The Olympic Reel'' for the closing ceremonies of the
1996 Summer Olympics
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in
Atlanta
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,
Georgia
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* Georgia (country), a country in the South Caucasus
* Georgia (U.S. state), a state in the southeastern United States
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People and fictional characters
* Georgia (name), a list of pe ...
.
It premiered in front of 100,000 people at
Centennial Olympic Stadium
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, as well as 3.5 billion people from the television viewing audience.
In 1997, O'Connor and others composed and performed music based on folk melodies as arrangements for the
American Revolutionary War
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-era
Public Broadcasting Service
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Arlington County, or simply Arlington, is a County (United States), county in the ...
documentary miniseries, ''
Liberty! The American Revolution'' (the companion album is ''Liberty!''). The
theme music
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for the miniseries is O'Connor's ''Song of the Liberty Bell.''
In 1999, he recorded his ''Fanfare For The Volunteer'' with the
London Philharmonic Orchestra
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for Sony Classical, and one of his most critically acclaimed orchestral pieces ''American Seasons'', which alludes to
The Four Seasons (Vivaldi)
''The Four Seasons'' () is a group of four violin concerto, violin concerti by Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi, each of which gives musical expression to a season of the year. These were composed around 1718–1720, when Vivaldi was the court c ...
, for Sony Classical as well. "American Seasons", and his "Strings & Threads" Suite (1986) was performed by The Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra in 2001 at the Great Performers concert at
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
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.
In a review by ''The New York Times'', "if Dvorak had spent his American leisure time in Nashville instead of
Spillville, Iowa, his ''New World'' Symphony might have sounded like this." Both "Strings & Threads" Suite and "American Seasons" were recorded for the album
The American Seasons, released in 2001 on the label OMAC Records. In 2008 O'Connor paired up with violinist
Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg to record his "Double Violin Concerto" with
Marin Alsop and the
Colorado Symphony Orchestra for OMAC Records.
Over a period of five years, O'Connor teamed up with jazz musicians
Frank Vignola and
Jon Burr for a trilogy of "Hot Swing Trio" albums dedicated to his mentor
Stephane Grappelli. O'Connor recorded ''Thirty-Year Retrospective'' in 2003 with the mandolinist
Chris Thile
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, guitarist
Bryan Sutton, and bassist Byron House. It celebrates his thirty years as a recording artist on his own OMAC label. He also provided the soundtrack to a 30-minute animated film on the story of
Johnny Appleseed
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(and released the music on his 1992 album ''Johnny Appleseed''), narrated by
Garrison Keillor. He contributed four tracks to a 1993 album on the theme of ''
The Night Before Christmas
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'', narrated by
Meryl Streep
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.
His composition Appalachia Waltz (appearing on the album of the same title) has been adopted by Yo-Yo Ma as part of his live performance repertoire. One of his chamber music efforts is his piano trio entitled Poets and Prophets which is inspired by his boyhood hero
Johnny Cash
John R. Cash (born J. R. Cash; February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003) was an American singer-songwriter. Most of his music contains themes of sorrow, moral tribulation, and redemption, especially songs from the later stages of his career. ...
. O'Connor and
Rosanne Cash
Rosanne Cash (born May 24, 1955) is an American singer-songwriter and author. She is the eldest daughter of country musician Johnny Cash and his first wife, Vivian Cash.
Although Cash is often classified as a country artist, her music draws f ...
united in double bill concerts for premiering their collaboration. The piece was recorded by the
Eroica Trio.
On April 28, 2009, O'Connor teamed with chamber musicians
Ida Kavafian,
Paul Neubauer and
Matt Haimovitz to present his second and third string quartets, amalgamating bluegrass with classical styles, at Merkin Concert Hall in New York. O'Connor released the recording for both string quartets under the label OMAC in May 2009.
In 2010, O'Connor released his "Americana Symphony" recorded by the
Baltimore Symphony as well as his "Concerto No. 6 (Old Brass) and released on OMAC Records. In 2011, he released his unique "The Improvised Violin Concerto" on CD and DVD with the
Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras. Partnering with his wife Maggie (who he married on November 8, 2014), his son Forrest, and his daughter-in-law, they recorded two band albums "Coming Home" for
Rounder Records
Rounder Records is an independent record label founded in 1970 in Somerville, Massachusetts, by Marian Leighton Levy, Ken Irwin, and Bill Nowlin. Focused on American roots music, Rounder's catalogue of more than 3000 titles includes records by A ...
and "A Musical Legacy" for OMAC Records. He also recorded a duets album with Maggie featuring music from the O'Connor Method. Some of O'Connor's albums are or contain tributes to his musical mentors and inspirations, including
Niccolò Paganini
Niccolò (or Nicolò) Paganini (; ; 27 October 178227 May 1840) was an Italian violinist and composer. He was the most celebrated violin virtuoso of his time, and left his mark as one of the pillars of modern violin technique. His 24 Caprices ...
,
Benny Thomasson, and
Grappelli. He has recorded solo albums for OMAC Records,
Rounder,
Warner Bros
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. and
SONY Classical Records.
The O'Connor Method
O'Connor has developed a string instrument technique for music teachers and students, ''The O'Connor Method — A New American School of String Playing''. The method places an emphasis on music and playing techniques from North America, in addition to focusing on rhythmic development, ear training, and improvisation.
The method is published as a series of books that also contains short essays about famous Americans who played fiddle, such as
Johnny Gimble,
Ray Nance,
Byron Berline,
Pinchas Zukerman
Pinchas Zukerman (; born 16 July 1948) is an Israeli-American violinist, violist and conductor.
Life and career
Zukerman was born in Tel Aviv, to Jewish parents and Holocaust survivors Yehuda and Miriam Lieberman Zukerman. He began his musica ...
,
Eddie South
Edward Otha South (November 27, 1904 – April 25, 1962) was an American jazz violinist.
Biography
Born in Louisiana, Missouri, South studied classical music in Budapest, Paris, and Chicago. He turned to jazz because, as a Black musician, the ...
,
Kenny Baker,
Benny Thomasson,
Scott Joplin
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,
Thomas Jefferson
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and
Davy Crockett
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, and the history of a wide variety of music including
jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Its roots are in blues, ragtime, European harmony, African rhythmic rituals, spirituals, h ...
,
bluegrass,
Romani,
western swing
Western swing, country jazz or smooth country is a subgenre of American country music that originated in the late 1920s in the West and South among the region's Western string bands. It is dance music, often with an up-tempo beat, which att ...
,
cajun
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Whi ...
,
blues
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,
African American Spirituals,
ragtime
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and
Mariachi
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. Teacher training sessions based on the Method take place around the United States and in other countries including at O'Connor Method String Camps. The physical edition which includes violin, viola, cello and orchestra method books was released in 2010. In 2020, the books were released as a digital edition for download.
Awards and honors
O'Connor won a
Grammy Award
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three times: in 1991 for Best Country Instrumental Performance, ''The New Nashville Cats''; in 2000 for Best Classical Crossover Album, ''
Appalachian Journey'' with
Yo-Yo Ma
Yo-Yo Ma (born October 7, 1955) is a French-born American Cello, cellist. Born to Chinese people, Chinese parents in Paris, he was regarded as a child prodigy there and began to study the cello with his father at age four. At the age of seven, ...
and
Edgar Meyer; and in 2016 for Best Bluegrass Album, ''Coming Home'' by the O'Connor Band With Mark O'Connor.
He was named Musician of the Year by the
Country Music Association
The Country Music Association (CMA) is an American trade association with the stated aim of promoting and developing country music throughout the world. Founded in 1958 in Nashville, Tennessee, it originally consisted of 233 members and was the f ...
six years in a row (from 1991–96).
His collaborative single "Restless" (with Vince Gill, Ricky Skaggs and Steve Wariner) won the 1991 CMA Vocal Event of the Year award. O'Connor is 4-time National Old-Time Fiddler Champion, 3-time Grand Master Fiddler Champion, 2-time national guitar flatpick champion, and world mandolin champion, all achieved in his teens. He was inducted into The National Fiddler Hall of Fame in 2009.
Discography
Albums
Singles
;Notes
Music videos
See also
References
External links
Official Website*
*
Mark O'Connornbsp;— on
AllMusic
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'Ep. 92: Mark O'Connor, violinist and composer'Interview by Tigran Arakelyan
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American mandolinists
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