Marc’s distinguished career includes 40 years on the faculty of the UW Madison Mead-Witter School of Music. He was oboist in the faculty Wingra Quintet, performing outreach throughout the state as well as nationally (Carnegie Recital Hall, Fairbanks, Alaska, Chicago, Minneapolis, Florida). His many students at the university have gone on to successful careers in public school teaching, college/university teaching, and professional performance. He particularly enjoyed teaching the course, Music in Performance, originated by Gunnar
Johansen, a course which introduced classical music to thousands of
undergraduate students. Marc was invited to perform and present master classes at many universities and music schools, including Iowa, Georgia, Northwestern, Brigham Young, Arizona State, and Oregon.

Marc was elected president of the International Double Reed Society and served from 1998-2002 also serving as conference host in Madison and co-host in Banff, Canada. He was featured soloist in several international double reed festivals, including “Oboes of the World in St. Petersburg,” Kazan “Kremlin” Festival, Tokyo Double Reed Festival, Rio Winds, the Pushechnikov Festival (Moscow) and the Sichuon (China) Double Reed Festival. In addition, he has performed at IDRS
international conferences in Birmingham, Buenos Aires, Granada, Melbourne, Banff, Frankfurt, and Rotterdam. In 2014 he was awarded the President’s Award in recognition of distinguished service to the society.

Marc held the position of principal oboe of the Madison Symphony Orchestra for 32 seasons, performing with major soloists such as Itzhak Perlman, Emanuel Ax, Gil Shahan, Olga Kern, and Vladimir Spivikov, to name but a few. Marc, himself, has been soloist with MSO on several occasions, performing concertos of Richard Strauss, Vivaldi, JS Bach, Cimarosa, and Marcello.

In the 1980’s Marc was invited to tour as soloist with the Arctic Chamber Orchestra, Fairbanks, Alaska. His tours with the ACO took him to many small native villages (such as Togiak, Iliamna, New Stuyahok, Naknek) as well as larger communities of Pt. Barrow and Kenai-Soldatna. In many cases, audiences were listening to a symphony orchestra for the first time. Cultural exchanges often followed the orchestral performances with the Alaskan youth performing traditional music for drums and dancing.

Marc has recorded with the Pro Arte Quartet (music of Crusell, Mozart, Britten, and Harbison) and with the Russian Folk Orchestra (20 th century oboe music by Russian composers). He has published band transcriptions of concertos by Pasculli, Hummel, and Cimarosa, as well as a series of works for oboe by Russian composers of the 20th century.

In spring, 2022, Marc served as adjunct music faculty member at Luther College, Decorah, Iowa, where he taught oboe performance. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for Madison Symphony Orchestra and Wisconsin Youth Orchestras.

He and his wife Marcia have three grown daughters, Leah,
Anna, and Ellie, four grandchildren, and a playful pug puppy, Melody. He enjoys playing tennis with his buddies, an occasional round of golf, and international travel with his family.