Mark Vanderpoel

Mark Vanderpoel is a native of San Diego. He is a graduate of the University of California, San Diego, where he studied with Bertram Turetzky and holds a master’s degree from the California Institute of the Arts. He is a former member of the San Diego Symphony and has performed with various chamber groups from the area, in addition to ensembles based in the Baja California region of Mexico.

His extensive theatre credits include Legally Blonde, Rogers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella, See What I wanna See, Guys and Dolls, Hello Dolly, and the PBS special A Broadway Celebration on In Performance at the White House, Jane Eyre, Bullets Over Broadway, An American in Paris, and many others.

His Stage and sideman credits include Audra McDonald, Kristin Chenoweth, Kelli O’Hara, Nancy Sinatra, Victoria Clark, Shirley, Jones, Cliff Richard, Deborah Voigt, Sandra Bernhard, Clay Aiken, Taylor Hicks, David Johansen, Sigur Ros, Jeff Beck, Richard Klein and Andrea Bocelli, as well as appearances on the Late Show with David Letterman and America’s Got Talent.