Mark Langford has appeared as a recitalist and in ensemble, on television, radio, and in concert halls since he began his professional career playing rock and roll as a teenager in the early eighties in Northern California.
Mark has studied with World renown Classical and Flamenco guitarists including Celin and Lito Romero, Juan Serrano, Eliott Fisk, Flavio Cucchi, Manolo Sanlucar, Gerardo Nunez,...
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... Manolo Franko, Paco Serrano and Jose Antonio Rodriguez. Mark has mastered an extensive repertoire of Spanish Classical guitar masterpieces and all the forms of Flamenco.
Mark has performed for major corporations such as AT&T, Audi, Hertz, Kinko’s, MCI, Merck, Merrill Lynch, Mitsubishi, Pfizer, and hundreds more since 1990. Performances for President Gerald Ford, President Vicente Fox of Mexico, Governor Pete Wilson, U.S. Congressmen, California State Assemblymen, and several San Diego mayors have highlighted Mark Langford's professional career. He has played for Ivanka Trump and for members of the world-renown Gipsy Kings, and was chosen to perform for the National Association of Music Merchants and the World NAMM VIPs.
Mark also has worked as a sound engineer with major artists and dignitaries including Mother Teresa, the Russian symphony’s first United States tour, the Buddhist monks’ first United States tour, Bob Crosby Orchestra, Jewel, Chris Isaak, Dwight Yoakum, Chris Kristofferson, Warren Zevon, Keane Reeves, John Entwistle (the Who), Bill Bruford (Yes), Alan Holdsworth, and many more. His expertise in this area amplifies and enhances the natural beauty of the classical and flamenco guitar at the same time maintaining clarity of sound that projects to every corner of a room or outdoor venue. The director of the California Guitar Panorama, Dr. Corey Whitehead of California State University at Fresno has hailed Mark Langford’s live sound and performance as “angelic.”
