Mark Davenport teaches music history, integrative courses in the College Core, and directs the early music ensemble (Collegium Musicum) at Regis. Passionate about his life-long mission “music for everyone,” Davenport launched and directed the University’s first Music Program, steering the strategic planning, curriculum design and overall growth of music at Regis through its first two decades, for which he was recognized in 2021 with the University’s “Outstanding Service Award.” In 2004 Davenport founded and continues to direct the Recorder Music Center, offering students, faculty, and visiting scholars, an opportunity to conduct original research using the Center’s vast collection of primary source material.
A performing scholar, Davenport maintains an active calendar of professional concerts and recitals. His scholarly work, as a result, has been broadly informed by historical performance practice, musicology (early music and American music), art and culture, and education, represented by an extensive and diverse record of publications and conference activity. His forthcoming book Community, Art, Education and the Quest for Meaning: From Black Mountain College to the Gate Hill Cooperative, documents an extraordinary group of artists, educators, and agents for change, who established one of America’s most active and progressive communities in contemporary art and living.
