Mark Suter

Mark Suter (* 1967 ) is a Swiss percussionist .

The Swiss percussionist Suter studied at the University of Michigan with Michael Udow and Salvator Rabbio and at California State University, Northridge with Brian Kilgore and Luis Conte . As a classical percussionist he has performed with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra , the Orchestra of St. Luke's , the Honolulu Symphony Orchestra , the Costa Rica National Symphony and the Radio City Music Hall Orchestra and is the first percussionist of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra .

He toured with musicians such as Paquito D'Rivera , Kathryn Stott and Marcelo Zarvos and worked as a member of Yo-Yo Mas Silk Road Ensemble on its albums When Strangers Meet , Beyond the Horizon , New Impossibilities and Off the Map . With the kamancheh player Kayhan Kalhor and the string quartet Brooklyn Rider ( Jonathan Gandelsman and Colin Jacobsen , violin, Nicholas Cords , viola and Erich Jacobsen , cello) he recorded the album Silent City .

Suter gave master classes and workshops at the Villecroze Music Academy, as part of the Silk Road Project and at the Weill Music Institute in New York . He heads the Department of Percussion at the Nanyang Art Academy in Singapore, where he completed his own training with Sri D Rajagopal .

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• The Silk Road Project - Mark Suter
• Discography at Allmusic