Mark Broyard –Tenor
Mark Broyard was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He began his formal musical training in Los Angeles, California at the age of ten years old studying guitar and piano. He studied voice with Ruth Goldin and Joyce Sweeney at West Los Angeles College and was the recipient of the Isabel Chane Award for choral music excellence. He attended the University of Southern California’s Idyllwild School of Music and the Arts where he was the first vocal student accepted into the Jazz Studies program. Mark continued his music studies as a vocal performance major on scholarship at Mount St. Mary’s College where he studied with Karl Schneider. In 2011 he graduated Cum Laude from California State University Northridge with a Major in Liberal Studies with a Pan-African Studies emphasis and a minor in Art History.
Mr. Broyard is co-author along with actor, director and playwright Roger Guenveur Smith of the award- winning stage play Inside the Creole Mafia. The play was most recently seen at Dillard University in New Orleans and Disney Hall’s REDCAT Theatre. Creole Mafia has toured nationally to critical acclaim. Performances include New York’s Public Theatre and One Dream Theatre, Penumbra Theatre in St. Paul, Colony Theater in Miami, Theatre Artaud and Climate Theater in San Francisco, Contemporary Art Center in New Orleans, The Fountainhead Theatre in Los Angeles and other venues and educational institutions across the country. Inside the Creole Mafia received awards from the L.A. Weekly Magazine in both 1993 and 2006. Both Smith and Broyard have been nominated for a NAACP Theatre Award and were presented with the keys to the city of New Orleans. Mark is currently working on a piece which will bring to the stage the brilliant writing of distant relative and the much-maligned New York Times critic Anatole Broyard.
Mr. Broyard performed a concert of art songs by Mexican composers at the Instituto Cultural de Guadalajara, Mexico organized and accompanied by pianist and frequent collaborator Dr. Lorenzo Sanchez. They regularly perform together and annually host a concert of music featuring the works of African-American and Mexican composers including works by both international and local artists as well as their own compositions. Mr. Broyard has set to music poems by Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes and others and is currently working on a setting of art songs based on the Haiku of Richard Wright.
As a Jazz Singer Broyard has performed with the likes of Teddy Edwards, Azar Lawrence, Henry Franklin, Theo Saunders, Alphonse Mouzon, Bobby Pierce, Vi Redd, Phil Ranelin and his own Mark Broyard Ensemble. He has written lyrics to Jazz compositions and instrumental solos by Charlie Parker, Wayne Shorter, Eric Dolphy, Bud Powell and others. He is a member of the Albert McNeil Jubilee Singers.
For the past thirty years Mr. Broyard has worked as a Choir Director and Cantor at several Los Angeles area churches. He has taught music and vocal performance at several private and public schools and is in constant demand as a vocal soloist. He lives in Culver City, California with his wife, artist Alicia Galindo, and is the father of a daughter and two sons who are pursuing careers in the visual arts.
Mark Broyard was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He began his formal musical training in Los Angeles, California at the age of ten years old studying guitar and piano. He studied voice with Ruth Goldin and Joyce Sweeney at West Los Angeles College and was the recipient of the Isabel Chane Award for choral music excellence. He attended the University of Southern California’s Idyllwild School of Music and the Arts where he was the first vocal student accepted into the Jazz Studies program. Mark continued his music studies as a vocal performance major on scholarship at Mount St. Mary’s College where he studied with Karl Schneider. In 2011 he graduated Cum Laude from California State University Northridge with a Major in Liberal Studies with a Pan-African Studies emphasis and a minor in Art History.
Mr. Broyard is co-author along with actor, director and playwright Roger Guenveur Smith of the award- winning stage play Inside the Creole Mafia. The play was most recently seen at Dillard University in New Orleans and Disney Hall’s REDCAT Theatre. Creole Mafia has toured nationally to critical acclaim. Performances include New York’s Public Theatre and One Dream Theatre, Penumbra Theatre in St. Paul, Colony Theater in Miami, Theatre Artaud and Climate Theater in San Francisco, Contemporary Art Center in New Orleans, The Fountainhead Theatre in Los Angeles and other venues and educational institutions across the country. Inside the Creole Mafia received awards from the L.A. Weekly Magazine in both 1993 and 2006. Both Smith and Broyard have been nominated for a NAACP Theatre Award and were presented with the keys to the city of New Orleans. Mark is currently working on a piece which will bring to the stage the brilliant writing of distant relative and the much-maligned New York Times critic Anatole Broyard.
Mr. Broyard performed a concert of art songs by Mexican composers at the Instituto Cultural de Guadalajara, Mexico organized and accompanied by pianist and frequent collaborator Dr. Lorenzo Sanchez. They regularly perform together and annually host a concert of music featuring the works of African-American and Mexican composers including works by both international and local artists as well as their own compositions. Mr. Broyard has set to music poems by Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes and others and is currently working on a setting of art songs based on the Haiku of Richard Wright.
As a Jazz Singer Broyard has performed with the likes of Teddy Edwards, Azar Lawrence, Henry Franklin, Theo Saunders, Alphonse Mouzon, Bobby Pierce, Vi Redd, Phil Ranelin and his own Mark Broyard Ensemble. He has written lyrics to Jazz compositions and instrumental solos by Charlie Parker, Wayne Shorter, Eric Dolphy, Bud Powell and others. He is a member of the Albert McNeil Jubilee Singers.
For the past thirty years Mr. Broyard has worked as a Choir Director and Cantor at several Los Angeles area churches. He has taught music and vocal performance at several private and public schools and is in constant demand as a vocal soloist. He lives in Culver City, California with his wife, artist Alicia Galindo, and is the father of a daughter and two sons who are pursuing careers in the visual arts.