MARK REHNSTROM (formerly Mark Johnson) native of Kane, Pennsylvania and now lives in New York City. While at Mansfield was Musician of the Year in 1979. Mr. Rehnstrom began his career as a baritone singing the baritone solos in Karel Husa's American Te Deum at Mansfield and at the Eastman School of Music. He received a Masters of Music from Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. While at Indiana he sang the role of Sharpless in Madame Butterfly, and the baritone solos in Britten's War Requiem.
Since 1984 Mark has lived in New York City as a professional choral singer, singing with choirs such as the New York Choral Artists, Musica Sacra, Voices of Ascension, and The New York City Opera Chorus, and under many outstanding conductors such as Kurt Masur, Collin Davis, Zubin Mehta, Richard Westenburg, John Nelson, Alice Parker, Robert Shaw, and Leonard Bernstein. He has sung and traveled with the Ensemble for Early Music performing in the ensembles productions of Herod and the Innocents, Daniel and the Lions, The Play Saint Nicholas, and various other medieval liturgical dramas.
He performed the role of the Ringmaster in Smetana's Bartered Bride with the Sarasota Opera, Canio in I Pagliacci with the Pine Mountain Music Festival in Michigan and with the Tri-State Opera in Poughkeepsie, NY, Froh in Das Rheingold in Arizona Opera's production of Wagner's Ring Cyle, the First Armed Guard in Die Zauberflote with the Dallas Opera and Dimitri in the Milwaukee Symphony's concert version of Boris Godunov. and Froh in Das Rheingold with the Dallas Opera.
Mr. Rehnstrom regularly sings the tenor solos in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony having performed it with the Nashville Symphony, the Rochester Philharmonic, the Vermont Symphony, the Waterbury Symphony, the Greenville Symphony, the New York Chamber Symphony, The San Francisco Pops, and the Detroit Symphony.