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Mark Sylvester
Mark Sylvester is a musician, composer, producer, and music instructor based in the Washington, DC, area. He specializes in guitar, bass, banjo, and mandolin.

Sylvester performs as a solo guitarist and as a member of the Great Noise Ensemble (GNE), a Washington, DC-based new music group. He also performs with many of the area's singer/songwriters, including Verlette Simon, Sense of Wonder , and Australia’s Iain Campbell Smith (also known as Fred Smith) Sylvester was also a member of the avant-folk group, the Tree Surgeons. His most recent CDs are New Music for Banjo (2009) and American Gypsy (2003).

Active in the Washington area's folk and acoustic music scene, Sylvester earned four WAMMIE nominations 2005-08) for contemporary folk instrumentalist.

Sylvester is a company associate of The Only Animal, a theatre company based in Vancouver, BC. He composed the music for two of their productions: NiX (Calgary, Alberta, 2009); and Other Freds (Vancouver, British Columbia, 2005). His score for Other Freds was nominated for a Jessie Richardson Theatre Award.