In a career spanning more than 50 years, Chattanooga native Mark Reneau has dedicated his life to music and the communities around it.
He played his first professional concert with the Chattanooga Symphony & Opera in 1971. He served as Associate Concertmaster with the CSO from 1982 to 1998 and as Concertmaster of the Huntsville Symphony Orchestra from 1998 to 2017. His orchestral career also includes performances with the Nashville Symphony, the Nashville Chamber Orchestra, and the Orchestra of the Bellingham Music Festival in Washington.
His teachers and mentors include Roberta Figgins, Jane Reeder, Francis Elliott, Donald Zimmer, William Preucil, and Shirley Givens. He has shared the stage with Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, Renée Fleming, Isaac Stern, Dave Brubeck, Vince Gill, and many others, and has toured nationally and recorded extensively in classical and commercial music.
A dedicated educator, Mark has taught violin at multiple universities and at The Tennessee Governor’s School for the Arts, where he began teaching in 2000.
Beyond music, he enjoys fine food, literature, cooking, and foreign travel. His favorite form of exercise is jumping to a few conclusions every day.