Celtic Music Radio Director - Mark Sheridan
Mark is a Research Co-ordinator in the Department of Creative and Aesthetic Studies, University of Strathclyde, Jordanhill Campus, Glasgow. He has just finished a longer than usual period as the successful Head of Department at Creative and Aesthetic Studies.
At the university, he headed the design and launch of the BA in Applied Music. He is a Director of the European Youth Jazz Festival and is co-ordinator for debates and lecture programme for the annual Celtic Connections Festival at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. He is a composer, and premiered his work "The Curve of the Earth" with Alasdair Fraser, Brolum, Phamie Gow and Ishbel Macaskill at Glasgow Cathedral during the Celtic Connections Festival in 2002 and with Julie Fowlis at the Festival Interceltique de Lorient 2002.
For the opening night of Celtic Connections 2005, Mark premiered a new piece of work with piper Fred Morrison called 'Paracas - A Rhapsody of the Gael'. The work received great acclaim with reviews in the quality Scottish press. For Celtic Connections 2007, Mark conducted in the Main Auditorium of the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall the ‘Celtic Connections Youth Concert’.
He has been involved in supporting the traditional music scene in Scotland and cultural matters relating to Scotland and the Celtic nations through his involvement with Celtic Connections Festival since 1994.
He designed the first degree in Scotland to take traditional musicians into a degree programme (the BA Applied Music) in 1993 in advance of the RSAMD. Some of his alumni include Brolum, Alasdair MacCulloch, Julie Fowlis, Martin O'Neil, and his undergraduate population at present includes Anna Massie, Sarah Naylor, Ruaridh Campbell and Rachel Hair. Mark is also an active composer, director and arranger, having previously worked with Alasdair Fraser and numerous players in the Scottish scene.
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