Mark Forkgen

Mark Forkgen has directed London Concert Choir since 1996. He is also Music Director of Canticum chamber choir and Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor of Kokoro, the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra's contemporary music group.

In his role as guest conductor Mark has worked with a number of leading British orchestras and has given the first performances of around a hundred works. He has been Conductor and Artistic Advisor for highly acclaimed festivals including Sir Peter Maxwell Davies' 70th Birthday; Stravinsky, the Composers of the South-West and more recently "A Festival of Britten".

A champion of Youth Music, Mark is the Principal Conductor of Dorset Youth Orchestra and, after conducting youth orchestras in London and Scotland for some years, is now Director of Music at Tonbridge School.