Mark D'Angelo a native of North Vancouver holds a Master of Music Degree from the University of McGill in Montreal, Q.C. Mark is currently Principal Trumpet in the Kamloops Symphony, and Second Trumpet with the Vancouver Island Symphony. He has also performed with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Vancouver New Music, Victoria Symphony, CBC Radio Orchestra, Thunder Bay Symphony, and the American Brass Quintet as an Aspen Music Festival Fellowship recipient. Mark has performed with Ben Hepner, Tony Award winner Idena Menzel, Ashley MacIsaac, and can be heard on Hedley’s Double Platinum Juno nominated album “The Show Must Go” Universal, 2009. In 2012 Mark was awarded a Canada Council for the Arts Specialized Travel Grant to study Trumpet in Valencia, Spain. More recently he attended the Banff Centre for the Arts at the Allstar Brass Residency with Jens Lindemann. Mark has also trained extensively in World Music, and has performed at the 2010 Winter Olympics with Mariachi Los Dorados, and at the International Mariachi Festival in Guadalajara four times.  In 2017 Mark performed the British Columbia premiere of John Estacios Concerto for Trumpet with the Kamloops Symphony. Mark has recorded with "Rita Chiarelli" and the Thunder Bay Symphony, The Whiskeydicks, Mariachi Los Dorados, Corbin Murdoch and the Nautical Miles, Shelley Obrien, and the National Youth Orchestra of Canada to name a few. Mark currently holds the position of trumpet instructor at Capilano University, and is a Stomvi Performing Artist.