Mark
Johnstone

Mark Johnstone has taught and performed for more than three decades, from his native St. Paul through Texas and New York to central New Jersey.

He holds degrees in history and music from the University of St. Thomas and studied lute and 19th-century guitar with Pat O’Brien. His early music work includes continuo on Baroque guitar and theorbo with I Virtuosi del Seicento and Longa Minima, and 19th-century guitar with Le Meslange de Plaisirs.

Mark has taught at the University of North Texas, The College of New Jersey, and the Peddie School. He has directed The Guitars of Westminster, whose holiday performances have included Drumthwacket and Princeton’s Morven Museum.