Composer Mark Petering joined the Carthage music faculty in 2005. He has received honors and awards from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers; the National Federation of Music Clubs; and the National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts. He won the 2003 Swan Composer Prize and the 2003 Music Festival of the Hamptons Composition Contest. His music has been performed across the United States, in Turkey and Eastern Europe, by such groups as the Seattle Philharmonic Orchestra, Czech National Symphony, and Atlantic Chamber Orchestra. His electronic compositions have been heard in Istanbul, Bucharest, Brooklyn, New York City, Minnesota, and Ohio. He teaches courses in music theory and orchestration. Read more.