Mark Lyons Composer

Professing faith in Jesus Christ, Mark was always playing in church. He got his early recording and audio experiance recording, playing live and doing sound primarily at Calvary Chapel of Downey and a few other churches. He got his first performance degree from Cerritos College and studied orchestration and composition. He did roughly a half dozen albums, did numerous tours with independent artists and played countless casuals and club dates. He also played three to four times on Sunday, for over twenty years, for the services at Calvary Chapel in Downey.

In 2005 Mark moved out to Riverside to be closer to where he was gettiing most of his work as a bassist. He worked with numerous local bands and indivdual acts including "A Little On The Side", Jeff Brent and "Trio 7", "Alex Perez and the Rising Tide" and others. He continued to do numerous recording sessions as well.  His work with the latter led to more session work in Los Angeles

After recording a demo with Alex Perez and the Rising Tide at 4th Street Recording Studios in Santa Monica, Mark did several session dates at the iconic recording studio owned and operated by Kathleen Wirt. 

In 2007 Mark moved back to Los Angeles and got his second music degree from Musicians Institute, studying bass performance and Latin Rhythms. Here he once again became interested in orchestration and composition as he immersed himself into the digital studio and caught up on the recent changes in studio software and hardware. He soon would put together his first in-home recording studio, or Digital Audio Workstation.

While working a part time job at Starbucks in L.A, Mark met verteran playwrite Reggie Bruce, who invited him to convert one of his scripts "The Gleam In Their Eyes" into a rock musical. After completing scores of music they began shopping the idea to a few in Reggies' circle with a demo reel. They then began to work on a new script and music, a dark comedy based on actual events, "Martha Washington Must Die". Reggie liked Marks ideas for the musical, his command of the English language, dialogue and discriptions of the scenes. He, consequently, asked Mark to "Take the lead" as Reggie contributed with music and situational ideas for the musical.  After Mr. Bruce's unfortunate passing in Sept of 2021, and although they weren't able to get the vocalists they'd wanted, Mark released his first album, a collection of music and songs from these scripts. This photo is from a table read, and shows from right to left Reggie Bruce, Jacob Lyons, Mark Lyons, and Adrianna Rose Lyons, who also stars as "Elsa" in the Disney Broadway production of "Frozen"