Mark Powell has sung with Cappella Romana since 1995, and also serves as its executive director. He earned a B.A. in music from Seattle Pacific University and an M.A. in musicology from the University of Washington with a thesis on the music of Arvo Pärt. Devotion to the choral art and to early music form the twin pillars of his career both as performer and executive. As a singer, he has toured and recorded extensively with Cappella Romana and with a number of professional vocal ensembles in the US and in Europe, including The Tudor Choir, Seattle; the Chœur de Chambre de Namur, Belgium; and Wakefield Cathedral Choir, England. He has also served as a choir director, cantor, and composer/arranger for Greek Orthodox churches in Seattle and Portland.