Mark Veldevere is a session guitarist and guitar teacher from the Salt Lake City area. He has performed and is still performing with several groups in the area.

He has lived throughout Utah, Idaho, and Arizona. He spent the majority of his life in the Boise, Idaho area where he taught himself to play the guitar at age ten. After serving in the France Bordeaux Mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, he attended Ricks College (BYU-Idaho) and then went on to finish his studies at Brigham Young University.

It was at BYU that he performed as a guitarist with the BYU Young Ambassadors. He toured with the Young Ambassadors throughout the southern United Sates as well as Morocco and Tunisia. He was also a guitarist with the Clog/Bluegrass group Clog America touring the Netherlands, Belgium, and France. He has also had the privilege of playing for the Pearl Awards in front of over 3,000 people and performing with Enoch Train and the Mormon Youth Symphony at the historic Tabernacle at Temple Square in front of 10,000 people both of which were televised. He also served as the Department Chair of Guitar Studies for the Crescent School of Music.

Mark has performed with Enoch Train, Jesse Thurgood, Randy Thorderson, Kim Brakken, Clive Romney, Dave Edwards, Doug Walker, Rich Dixon, Jim Stout, Jay Lawrence, and many others. He has also performed and taught classes/clinics at various colleges, universities, high schools, and middle schools in the Jordan, Salt Lake, Granite, and Canyons School District. He studied for several years under session and jazz guitar great Rich Dixon and has been mentored by session great Michael Dowdle for close to thirty years.

His influences include Michael Dowdle, Rich Dixon, Chet Atkins, Steve Lukather, Larry Carlton, Edward Van Halen, Dann Huff, Joe Satriani, Robben Ford, Steve Vai, Paul Gilbert, Lee Ritenour, Tommy Emmanuel, Wes Montgomery, Scott Henderson, George Benson, Eric Johnson, Andy Timmons, George Lynch, Jeff Pevar, Paul Yandell, Lawrence Juber, Ed Gerhard, Grant Geissman, Russ Freeman, Brent Mason, Greg Howe, Vinnie Moore, Yngwie Malmsteen, Pat Metheny, Brian Hughes, Tony Rice, The Hellecasters, Norman Brown, Paul Jackson Jr., Ricky Skaggs, Chuck Loeb, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Carl Verheyen, Danny Gatton, Tim Pierce, Pete Thorn, Kee Marcello, Neal Schon, Vince Gill, Brad Paisley, and many more!

He is currently writing and recording material for his first solo CD which will be titled “Turning Point.”

For more information, Contact Mark at:

Cell: (801) 635-6588

Email: markveldevere@comcast.net