Mark Davenport

Dr. Mark Davenport, professor and immediate past chair of the Department of Fine and Performing Arts at Regis University (Denver), teaches music history and interdisciplinary courses in the Fine Arts and Integrative Core. He is the founder and director of the university’s Recorder Music Center. A multi-instrumentalist and performing scholar, Davenport maintains an active calendar of professional concerts and recitals. Davenport’s teaching and scholarship, as a result, have been broadly informed by historical performance practice, musicology (early music and American music), art and culture, and education, represented by an extensive and diverse record of journal publications and conference lecture/presentations. His current research documents the early history of the Gate Hill Cooperative, an experimental intentional community (founded by Black Mountain College faculty and students) of artists, musicians, educators and social activists (and where he grew up), and gathers much of his wide-ranging interests into one sphere. His research has been supported by the Northwestern University Library John Cage Research Grant, the University Research and Scholarship Council (URSC) Grant, two Large Summer Grants and multiple Travel Grants from Regis University.

Davenport holds the Ph.D. and Masters degrees in Musicology from the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he was the recipient of both the Gordon Getty Foundation Scholarship and the Ogilvy Research Fellowship (Center for British Studies) for his doctoral work on the seventeenth-century English composer William Lawes. He conducted doctoral research at the Bodleian and Christ Church Libraries in Oxford. His undergraduate work was at Sarah Lawrence College, in Bronxville, New York, and the State University of New York, College at New Paltz, where he received a B.A. in Music History and Literature, summa cum laude. Prior to his current position at Regis University, Davenport taught at the State University of New York, College at New Paltz, the University of Colorado at Boulder, and the Metropolitan State University of Denver.