Mark Adam Watkins

For the last 23 years, Mark Adam Watkins has served in multiple capacities as a pianist/keyboardist, composer/songwriter, music director, and producer. His career in music has yielded several professional touring engagements throughout 33 countries and 43 states.

Adam’s eclectic interest in the arts has afforded him many opportunities to compose for and perform in the different genres that commercial music purveys. He has worked on numerous productions which have included a mix of disciplines from Film/TV production, commercial music, musical theatre, ballet/modern dance, and orchestral commissions both pure and programmatic.

Some of the highlights of those productions include his work with:

- Blues/Jazz Vocalist - Lou Rawls
- Jazz/R&B Vocalist – Al Jareau
- Matt Damon + Ben Affleck’s Green Light Productions
- Pop Artist, Beyonce
- Film Composer, Bill Conti
- N’SYNC’s J.C. Chasez with Jive Records
- Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Samuel Jackson, Jane Kazmeryck, Brad Whitford, George Wendt.
- R&B/FunkVocalist, Issac Hayes
- Pop Sensation, Debbie Harry (Blondie)
- Pop Vocalist, Lisa Loeb
- Las Vegas Entertainer, Wayne Newton
- Percussionists, Gregg Bissonette, Vinnie Cailauta, Nephtali Santiago
- Rockabilly/Swing Recording Artist, Brian Setzer
- Jazz Trumpeter/Vocalist, Jack Sheldon
- The New Four Freshman
- Emmy award winning choreographers, David Connolly &Anita Mann
- Composer Frankie Blue, V.I.P. (Fox TV)
- The Bechtler Ensemble
- Charlotte, Greensboro, North Carolina Symphonies
- Conductor Rick Henn and The Pageant of the Masters orchestra
- SuperBowl/Olympics choreographer, Doug Jack
- Vocalists Ted Neely and Carl Anderson, Jesus Christ Superstar

Mr. Watkins academic credits include his scholarship as 1 of 5 international composers at the Henry Mancini Institute in 1998. His mentors there include such composer/performers as Jack Elliot, Jack Smalley, Dave Grusin, Johnny Mandel, Patrick Williams, and John Clayton, among others. He completed his graduate work in Commercial Music Composition and Arranging a t California State University, Los Angeles studying with singer/songwriter Deborah A. Holland. His B.M. in Piano Performance comes from California State University, Long Beach where he studied with composer/arranger, John Prince.