Mark O'Connor
{{Short description|American violinist and composer}}
{{Other people|Mark O'Connor}}
{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Mark O'Connor
| image = Mark O'Connor, bluegrass musician on stage at Cambridge Folk Festival, 1985.jpg
| caption = O'Connor on stage at the 1985 Cambridge Folk Festival
| background = non_vocal_instrumentalist
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1961|08|05}}{{Cite web|title=Mark O'Connor biography|url=http://www.cmt.com/artists/az/oconnor_mark/bio.jhtml|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040223003441/http://www.cmt.com/artists/az/oconnor_mark/bio.jhtml|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 23, 2004|publisher=CMT|access-date=January 28, 2017}}
| birth_place = Mountlake Terrace, Washington, U.S.
| genre = Country rock, bluegrass, jazz rock, classical rock
| occupation = Musician, composer, teacher, author
| instrument = Violin, fiddle, guitar, mandolin
| years_active = 1974–present
| label = Rounder, Warner Bros., Sony Classical Records
| associated_acts = David Grisman Quintet, Strength in Numbers, The Dregs
| website = {{URL|markoconnor.com}}
}}
Mark O'Connor (born August 5, 1961) is an American fiddle player, composer, guitarist, and mandolinist whose music combines bluegrass, country, jazz and classical. A three-time Grammy Award winner, he has won six Country Music Association Musician Of The Year awards and was a member of three influential musical ensembles: the David Grisman Quintet, The Dregs, and Strength in Numbers.{{cite web |url=https://fromthetop.org/musician/mark-oconnor/ |title=Mark O'Connor, Violin |publisher=fromthetop.org |access-date=5 May 2022 }}
O'Connor has released 45 albums, of mostly original music, over a 45-year career. He has recorded and performed mostly his original American Classical music for decades. An expert at traditionally-based fiddle and bluegrass music, he also plays other instruments proficiently, including the violin, guitar and mandolin.{{cite web |url=https://thebluegrasssituation.com/read/mark-oconnor-pickin-in-the-wind/ |title=Mark O'Connor, 'Pickin' in the wind' |author=Hiltner, Justin |date=7 August 2018 |publisher=thebluegrasssituation.com |access-date=16 May 2022 }} He has appeared on 450 albums, composed nine concertos and has put together groundbreaking ensembles. His mentors have included Benny Thomasson{{Cite web|title=Mark O'Connor: On Learning, Playing, and Teaching Strings, American-style by Peter Anick|url=http://www.fiddle.com/Articles.page?Index=1&ArticleID=53719|publisher=Fiddle Magazine|date=August 21, 2010}} who taught O'Connor to fiddle as a teenager, French jazz violinist Stéphane Grappelli{{Cite web|title=Mark O'Connor Hot Swing on Mountain Stage|url=https://www.npr.org/2010/04/05/125541952/mark-oconnor-on-mountain-stagewith|publisher=NPR|date=April 5, 2010}} with whom O'Connor toured as a teenager, and guitarists Chet Atkins, Doc Watson and Steve Morse.{{Cite web|title=Chet Atkins and Mark O'Connor|url=http://www.misterguitar.us/news/markoconnor2a.html|publisher=Mister Guitar|author=Tom Redmond|date=January 28, 2017}}
Early life
O'Connor was born and raised in the suburb of Mountlake Terrace, Washington, where his father was a construction worker and his mother was a dance teacher.{{cite web |url=https://americanprofile.com/articles/violin-virtuoso-mark-oconnor/ |title=Violin Virtuoso Mark O'Connor |author=Roberts, M.B. |date=5 August 2010 |publisher=americanprofile.com |access-date=5 May 2022 }} His mother insisted that he learn to play the guitar at the age of five and, by the age of ten had taught himself to play the Flamenco guitar. As an eight-year-old in 1969, O'Connor watched fiddle player Doug Kershaw perform the song "Diggy Liggy Lo" on The Johnny Cash Show, leaving such an impression on him that he begged his parents to purchase him a fiddle for the next three years before they finally gave him one for his eleventh birthday.{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1993/11/19/mark-oconnors-art-fiddling-with-the-best/ad489226-573c-4281-b521-c7aff4a63e5a/ |title=Mark O'Connor's Art: Fiddling With The Best |author=Himes, Geoffrey |work=washingtonpost.com |access-date=5 May 2022 }}{{cite web |url=http://www.robadamsjournalist.com/index.asp?pageid=665624 |title=Mark O'Connor - fiddle whiz keeps it in the family |author=Adams, Rob |publisher=robadamsjournalist.com |access-date=5 May 2022 }}
In 1973, O'Connor's mother drove him and his little sister from Seattle to Nashville, Tennessee, where a local friend suggested that he might be allowed to play at the Picking Parlour. His performance at the Picking Parlour left the local audience stunned that a twelve-year-old knew so many old-time fiddle songs. A couple of days later, he made his Grand Ole Opry debut, introduced by Roy Acuff, and became the youngest musician to sign a recording contract with Rounder Records.
O'Connor won national titles on the fiddle, guitar, and mandolin as a teenager.{{cite web |url=https://musicianguide.com/biographies/1608001028/Mark-O-Connor.html |title=Mark O'Connor Biography |author=LaBorie, Tim |publisher=musicianguide.com |access-date=5 May 2022 }}{{cite web |url=https://bluegrasstoday.com/mark-oconnor-picks-up-his-guitar-again-for-markology-ii/ |title=Mark O'Connor picks up his guitar again for Markology II |author=Lawless, John |date=19 April 2021 |publisher=bluegrasstoday.com |access-date=16 May 2022 }} In 1975, at the age of thirteen, O'Connor won the WSM (AM), Tennessee, and Grand Ole Opry sponsored Grand Masters Fiddle Championships in Nashville, Tennessee, against amateur and professional competitors of all ages.{{Cite web|title=Grand Master Fiddler Championship Past Winners|url=http://www.grandmasterfiddler.com/14103.html|publisher=Grand Master Fiddler|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120328053616/http://www.grandmasterfiddler.com/14103.html|archive-date=March 28, 2012}} That same year he won another national championship on acoustic guitar, at the National Flat Pick Guitar Championship in Winfield, Kansas.{{Cite web|title=National Guitar Flat Pick Champion Archive|url=http://wvfest.com/contests/bycontest.html?contestid=1|publisher=Walnut Valley Festival|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724175648/http://www.wvfest.com/contests/bycontest.html?contestid=1|archive-date=July 24, 2011}}
After graduating from the Mountlake Terrace High School in 1979, O'Connor joined the David Grisman Quintet as the replacement for guitar player, Tony Rice, and went out on tour with Stephane Grappelli with whom he performed at Carnegie Hall when he was only seventeen-years-old. As a teenager, he was also a member of the seminal instrumental group The Dregs, previously known as Dixie Dregs. At age 19, He won the Buck White International Mandolin Championship in Kerrville, Texas.{{cite web |url=https://bluegrasstoday.com/mark-oconnor-shares-his-career-as-an-american-master/ |title=Mark O'Connor shares his career as an American Master |author=Zimmerman, Lee |date=10 May 2019 |publisher=bluegrasstoday.com |access-date=16 May 2022 }} He is a four-time grand champion (1979, 1980, 1981 and 1984) at the National Oldtime Fiddlers' Contest in Weiser, Idaho.{{Cite web|title = National Oldtime Fiddlers Contest Past Winners|url=http://fiddlecontest.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=11&pid=47&slideshow=4000|publisher=Fiddle Contest|access-date=July 9, 2020}} Several of his teenage albums are noteworthy and inspired a generation of young acoustic musicians, such as "Pickin' In The Wind", "A Texas Jam Session", "Markology" and "False Dawn".
Musical career
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O'Connor composes, arranges, and records American music in genres that include folk, classical, and jazz. His works include concertos, and compositions for orchestra, string quartets, string trios, choral music, solo unaccompanied pieces, folk and bluegrass ensemble and a symphony (see Compositions). After releasing six albums as a teen on Rounder Records, O'Connor signed a long term record deal with Warner Bros. Records in Nashville. He released a series of instrumental albums such as "Elysian Forest" and "On The Mark" as well as teaming up with Bela Fleck, Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas and Edgar Meyer for "Strength In Numbers". His first award winning albums that catapulted him into the international stage include "New Nashville Cats" and "Heroes" both released on Warner Bros.
O'Connor's "Fiddle Concerto (1992)", a violin concerto in American fiddle style commission by the Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, has been performed over 250 times, making it one of the most performed concertos written in the last 50 years.{{Cite web|title=ShoreFire Media Official Bio for Mark O'Connor|url=http://www.shorefire.com/index.php?a=bio&o=244|publisher=ShoreFire Media|access-date=March 6, 2017}} The recording of the concerto was conducted by Marin Alsop and "Concordia Orchestra".
In 1993, O'Connor teamed up with Charlie Daniels to record a sequel to Daniels' 1979 single "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" entitled "The Devil Comes Back To Georgia". O'Connor and Daniels recorded the song alongside Johnny Cash, Marty Stuart and Travis Tritt. The song was on O'Connor's album, Heroes. Between 1995 and 2000, O'Connor teamed up with Yo-Yo Ma and Edgar Meyer to release "Appalachia Waltz" and "Appalachian Journey" spending nearly 2 years at the top of the classical music Billboard charts.
In 1996, O'Connor composed The Olympic Reel for the closing ceremonies of the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia.{{Cite web|url=http://olympicceremonies.wordpress.com/1996-atlanta-closing-ceremony-music-list/|title=1996 Atlanta Closing Ceremony Music List | Olympic Ceremonyography|website=olympicceremonies.wordpress.com|date=30 August 2008|access-date=November 10, 2018}} It premiered in front of 100,000 people at Centennial Olympic Stadium, as well as 3.5 billion people from the television viewing audience.{{Cite web|url=http://www.sitemason.com/site/kGwSPe/olympic.reel.html|title=Mark O'Connor Sheet Music|website=sitemason.com|access-date=November 10, 2018}}
In 1997, O'Connor and others composed and performed music based on folk melodies as arrangements for the American Revolutionary War-era Public Broadcasting Service documentary miniseries, Liberty! The American Revolution (the companion album is Liberty!). The theme music for the miniseries is O'Connor's Song of the Liberty Bell.{{Cite web|title=LIBERTY! The American Revolution, Series: The Music of Liberty|url=https://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/liberty_music.html|publisher=PBS|access-date=March 6, 2017}}
In 1999, he recorded his Fanfare For The Volunteer with the London Philharmonic Orchestra for Sony Classical,{{Cite web|title=Fanfare for the Volunteer [sound recording]|url=http://www.chipublib.org/search/details/cn/1718332|publisher=Chicago Public Library}} and one of his most critically acclaimed orchestral pieces American Seasons, which alludes to The Four Seasons (Vivaldi), for Sony Classical{{Cite web|title=American Seasons: Review |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/mark-oconnor-the-american-seasons-r55500|publisher=AllMusic.com|access-date=March 6, 2017}} as well. "American Seasons", and his "Strings & Threads" Suite (1986) was performed by The Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra in 2001 at the Great Performers concert at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.
In a review by The New York Times, "if Dvorak had spent his American leisure time in Nashville instead of Spillville, Iowa, his New World Symphony might have sounded like this."{{Cite news|title=MUSIC REVIEW; Vivaldi and a Touch of Twang From Some Flexible Fiddlers|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/19/movies/music-review-vivaldi-and-a-touch-of-twang-from-some-flexible-fiddlers.html |work=The New York Times|date=19 October 2001 |access-date=March 6, 2017|last1=Kozinn |first1=Allan }} Both "Strings & Threads" Suite and "American Seasons" were recorded for the album The American Seasons, released in 2001 on the label OMAC Records.{{Cite web |title=Mark O'Connor {{!}} Orchestral {{!}} D'Addario |url=https://www.daddario.com/artists/orchestral/mark_oconnor/ |access-date=2024-06-15 |website=www.daddario.com}} In 2008 O'Connor paired up with violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg to record his "Double Violin Concerto" with Marin Alsop and the Colorado Symphony Orchestra for OMAC Records.
Over a period of five years, O'Connor teamed up with jazz musicians Frank Vignola and Jon Burr for a trilogy of "Hot Swing Trio" albums dedicated to his mentor Stephane Grappelli. O'Connor recorded Thirty-Year Retrospective in 2003 with the mandolinist Chris Thile, guitarist Bryan Sutton, and bassist Byron House."Thirty Year Retrospective" liner notes It celebrates his thirty years as a recording artist on his own OMAC label. He also provided the soundtrack to a 30-minute animated film on the story of Johnny Appleseed (and released the music on his 1992 album Johnny Appleseed), narrated by Garrison Keillor. He contributed four tracks to a 1993 album on the theme of The Night Before Christmas, narrated by Meryl Streep.
His composition Appalachia Waltz (appearing on the album of the same title) has been adopted by Yo-Yo Ma as part of his live performance repertoire.{{Cite web |title=Yo-Yo Ma |url=https://www.sonyclassical.com/artists/artist-details/yo-yo-ma-2 |access-date=2024-06-15 |website=www.sonyclassical.com |language=en}} One of his chamber music efforts is his piano trio entitled Poets and Prophets which is inspired by his boyhood hero Johnny Cash. O'Connor and Rosanne Cash united in double bill concerts for premiering their collaboration. The piece was recorded by the Eroica Trio.
On April 28, 2009, O'Connor teamed with chamber musicians Ida Kavafian, Paul Neubauer and Matt Haimovitz to present his second and third string quartets, amalgamating bluegrass with classical styles, at Merkin Concert Hall in New York.{{Cite web|last=O'Connor, Kavafian, Neubauer, Haimovitz|first=Mark, Ida, Paul Matt|title=Mark O'Connor's String Quartet No. 3 (2nd Mvmt) w. Kavafian/Neubauer/Haimovitz|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCM8Z3s2J3g&list=PL7D4C78D6C024C1D7&index=79 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211222/DCM8Z3s2J3g |archive-date=2021-12-22 |url-status=live|work=String Quartet No. 3|publisher=YouTube|access-date=September 24, 2012}}{{cbignore}} O'Connor released the recording for both string quartets under the label OMAC in May 2009.{{Cite web|title=Mark O'Connor String Quartets No. 2 & 3|url=https://www.amazon.com/Mark-OConnor-String-Quartets-Nos/dp/B0021R519K|publisher=Amazon|access-date=March 6, 2017}}
In 2010, O'Connor released his "Americana Symphony" recorded by the Baltimore Symphony as well as his "Concerto No. 6 (Old Brass) and released on OMAC Records. In 2011, he released his unique "The Improvised Violin Concerto" on CD and DVD with the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras. Partnering with his wife Maggie (who he married on November 8, 2014), his son Forrest, and his daughter-in-law, they recorded two band albums "Coming Home" for Rounder Records and "A Musical Legacy" for OMAC Records. He also recorded a duets album with Maggie featuring music from the O'Connor Method. Some of O'Connor's albums are or contain tributes to his musical mentors and inspirations, including Niccolò Paganini, Benny Thomasson, and Grappelli. He has recorded solo albums for OMAC Records,{{Cite web|url=https://omacrecords.com/home|title=OMAC Records|website=omacrecords.com}} Rounder,{{Cite web|url=https://bluegrasstoday.com/rounder-to-reissue-mark-oconnor-albums/|title=Rounder reissues classic Mark O'Connor albums|date=September 13, 2016}} Warner Bros. and SONY Classical Records.{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mark-oconnor-mn0000293391/discography|title=Mark O'Connor | Album Discography|website=AllMusic}}
The O'Connor Method
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O'Connor has developed a string instrument technique for music teachers and students, The O'Connor Method — A New American School of String Playing.{{Cite web |title=O'Connor Violin Method |url=http://markoconnor.com/index.php?page=about&family=method |publisher=Mark O'Connor Musik International |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110714040226/http://markoconnor.com/index.php?page=about&family=method |archive-date=July 14, 2011}} The method places an emphasis on music and playing techniques from North America, in addition to focusing on rhythmic development, ear training, and improvisation.
The method is published as a series of books that also contains short essays about famous Americans who played fiddle, such as Johnny Gimble, Ray Nance, Byron Berline, Pinchas Zukerman, Eddie South, Kenny Baker, Benny Thomasson, Scott Joplin, Thomas Jefferson and Davy Crockett, and the history of a wide variety of music including jazz, bluegrass, Romani, western swing, cajun, blues, African American Spirituals, ragtime and Mariachi. Teacher training sessions based on the Method take place around the United States and in other countries including at O'Connor Method String Camps. The physical edition which includes violin, viola, cello and orchestra method books was released in 2010. In 2020, the books were released as a digital edition for download.
Awards and honors
O'Connor won a Grammy Award three times: in 1991 for Best Country Instrumental Performance, The New Nashville Cats; in 2000 for Best Classical Crossover Album, Appalachian Journey with Yo-Yo Ma and Edgar Meyer; and in 2016 for Best Bluegrass Album, Coming Home by the O'Connor Band With Mark O'Connor.
{{Cite web|title = Past Winners: Grammys |date = 30 April 2017|url=https://www.grammy.com/nominees/search?artist=%22mark+o%27connor%22&field_nominee_work_value=&year=All&genre=All&=Search|publisher=Grammy Awards website|access-date=July 9, 2020}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/02/12/514877528/grammy-awards-2017-the-full-list-of-winners|website=npr.org|title=NPR Choice page|date=12 February 2017 |access-date=November 10, 2018|last1=Flanagan |first1=Andrew }}{{Cite web|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/grammys-2017-winners-list-966483/item/grammy-nominations-best-r-b-performance-952821|title=Grammys 2017 Winners Full List|website=Hollywood Reporter|date=12 February 2017|access-date=November 10, 2018}}
He was named Musician of the Year by the Country Music Association six years in a row (from 1991–96).{{Cite web|title=CMA Musician of the Year Past Winners|url=http://countrymusic.about.com/library/blprevcmamus.htm|publisher=Country Music|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151018193917/http://countrymusic.about.com/library/blprevcmamus.htm |archive-date=October 18, 2015}} His collaborative single "Restless" (with Vince Gill, Ricky Skaggs and Steve Wariner) won the 1991 CMA Vocal Event of the Year award. O'Connor is 4-time National Old-Time Fiddler Champion,{{Cite web |title=Mark O’Connor - My History at Weiser |url=https://www.idahobluegrassassociation.org/mark-orsquoconnor---my-history-at-weiser.html |access-date=2024-06-15 |website=Idaho Bluegrass Association |language=en}} 3-time Grand Master Fiddler Champion,{{Cite web |title=Grand Master Fiddler Championship - Past Winners |url=https://www.grandmasterfiddler.com/past-winners/ |access-date=2024-06-15 |website=www.grandmasterfiddler.com |language=en}} 2-time national guitar flatpick champion,{{Cite web |date=2014-10-17 |title=National Flat Pick Guitar Championship |url=https://www.pickersparadise.org/contests/flatpick |access-date=2024-06-15 |website=Walnut Valley Festival |language=en}} and world mandolin champion, all achieved in his teens.{{Cite web |title=Can A Mandolin Kick Any More _____? |url=https://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/threads/122646-Can-A-Mandolin-Kick-Any-More-_____?p=1480766&viewfull=1 |access-date=2024-06-15 |website=www.mandolincafe.com}} He was inducted into The National Fiddler Hall of Fame in 2009.{{cite web |url=http://www.nationalfiddlerhalloffame.org/HallOfFame/marko%27connorbio.html |title=Mark O'Connor at the National Fiddler Hall of Fame |publisher=nationalfiddlerhalloffame.org |access-date=5 May 2022 }}
Discography
= Albums =
| class="wikitable" |
| rowspan="2"| Year
! rowspan="2"| Album ! colspan="7"| Peak United States Chart Positions ! rowspan="2"| Label |
|---|
| style="width:65px;"| Classical Crossover
! style="width:65px;"| Classical ! style="width:65px;"| Jazz ! style="width:65px;"| Country ! style="width:65px;"| Heatseekers ! style="width:65px;"| Bluegrass ! style="width:65px;"| Indie |
| 1974
| National Junior Fiddling Champion | | | | | | | | rowspan="6"| Rounder |
| 1976
| Pickin' in the Wind | | | | | | | |
| 1978
| Markology | | | | | | | |
| rowspan="2"| 1979
| On the Rampage | | | | | | | |
| Soppin' the Gravy
| | | | | | | |
| 1982
| False Dawn | | | | | | | |
| 1982
| Industry Standard (with The Dregs) | | | | | | | | Arista |
| 1985
| Meanings Of | | | | | | | | rowspan="3"| Warner |
| 1986
| Stone from Which the Arch Was Made | | | | | | | |
| 1988
| Elysian Forest | | | | | | | |
| rowspan="2"| 1989
| The Championship Years | | | | | | | | CMF |
| On the Mark
| | | | | | | | Warner |
| 1990
| Retrospective | | | | | | | | Rounder |
| 1991
| | | | style="text-align:center;"| 44 | style="text-align:center;"| 14 | | | Warner |
| 1992
| Johnny Appleseed | | | | | | | | Rabbit Ears |
| rowspan="2"| 1993
| Heroes | | | | style="text-align:center;"| 46 | style="text-align:center;"| 14 | | | Warner |
| The Night Before Christmas
| | | | | | | | Rabbit Ears |
| 1994
| style="text-align:center;"| 6 | | | | | | | Warner |
| 1996
| Appalachia Waltz (with Yo-Yo Ma and Edgar Meyer) | | style="text-align:center;"| 1 | | | | | | rowspan="6"| Sony |
| 1997
| Liberty! | style="text-align:center;"| 8 | | | | | | |
| 1998
| style="text-align:center;"| 5 | | | | | | |
| 1999
| | | | | | | |
| 2000
| Appalachian Journey (with Yo-Yo Ma and Edgar Meyer) | | style="text-align:center;"| 1 | | | | | |
| rowspan="2"| 2001
| | style="text-align:center;"| 6 | | | | | |
| Hot Swing!
| | | | | | | | rowspan="2"| OMAC |
| rowspan="2"| 2003
| Thirty-Year Retrospective (with Chris Thile, Bryon Sutton) | | | | | | | |
| Hot Swing Trio: In Full Swing
| | | style="text-align:center;"|7 | | | | | Sony |
| 2004
| | style="text-align:center;"| 19 | | | | | | rowspan="4"| OMAC |
| rowspan="2"| 2005
| Hot Swing Trio: Live in New York | | | style="text-align:center;"| 22 | | | | |
| Double Violin Concerto (with Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg)
| | | | | | | |
| 2006
| Folk Mass (with Gloriae Dei Cantores) | | | | | | | |
| 2007
| The Essential Mark O'Connor | | | | | | | | Sony |
| 2008
| Americana Symphony (Baltimore Symphony, Marin Alsop) | | | | | | | | rowspan="10"| OMAC |
| 2009
| String Quartets No. 2 & 3 | | | | | | | |
| 2010
| Jam Session | | | | | | | |
| 2011
| An Appalachian Christmas | | style="text-align:center;"| 9 | | | style="text-align:center;"| 5 | style="text-align:center;"| 3 | style="text-align:center;"| 39 |
| 2012
| American Classics | | | | | | | |
| 2012
| America On Strings | | | | | | | |
| 2013
| The Improvised Violin Concerto CD/DVD | | | | | | | |
| 2014
| MOC4 | | | | | | | |
| 2014
| Mark O'Connor Christmas Tour Live DVD | | | | | | | |
| 2015
| Duo. (with Maggie O'Connor) | | | | | | | |
| 2016
| | | | | | style="text-align:center;"| 1 | | New Rounder |
| 2019
| | | | | |style="text-align:center;"| 5 | |OMAC - 23 |
| 2021
|Markology II | | | | | |style="text-align:center;"| 10 | |OMAC - 27 |
| 2024
|Life After Life (with Maggie O'Connor) | | | | | | | |OMAC-30 |
= Singles =
| class="wikitable" |
| rowspan="2"| Year
! rowspan="2"| Song ! colspan="2"| Chart positions ! rowspan="2"| Album |
|---|
| style="font-size:smaller;"
! style="width:50px;"| US Country ! style="width:50px;"| CAN Country |
| 1991
| "Restless" | style="text-align:center;"|25 | style="text-align:center;"|19 | rowspan="2"|The New Nashville Cats |
| 1992
| "Now It Belongs to You" (with Steve Wariner) | style="text-align:center;"|71 | style="text-align:center;"|62 |
| 1994
| "The Devil Comes Back to Georgia" | style="text-align:center;"|54 | style="text-align:center;"|— | Heroes |
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= Music videos =
| class="wikitable" |
| Year
! Video ! Director |
|---|
| 1990
| "Bowtie"{{Cite web|url=http://www.cmt.com/videos/mark-oconnor/384437/bowtie.jhtml|title=CMT : Videos : Mark O'Connor : Bowtie|publisher=Country Music Television|access-date=September 29, 2011}}{{dead link|date=July 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} | Gustavo Garzon |
| rowspan="2"| 1991
| "Restless" (with Steve Wariner, Ricky Skaggs and Vince Gill) | |
| "Now It Belongs to You" (with Steve Wariner)
| rowspan="2"| Gustavo Garzon |
| 1993
| "The Devil Comes Back to Georgia" (with Charlie Daniels, Johnny Cash, Travis Tritt and Marty Stuart) |
| 1997
| "Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier" (with James Taylor) | |
See also
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References
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External links
- [http://www.markoconnor.com Official Website]
- {{IMDb name|id=0640432|name=Mark O'Connor}}
- [{{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p110516|pure_url=yes}} Mark O'Connor] — on AllMusic
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnPK_7jArRs 'Ep. 92: Mark O'Connor, violinist and composer'] Interview by Tigran Arakelyan
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