Mark Lee was educated at Cambridge University where he was Organ Scholar of Corpus Christi College from 1984 to 1987. He graduated in music in 1987 and at this time also gained his FRCO, winning the prestigious Coventry Cathedral Recital Award for 'outstanding performance'.

After university Mark spent two years as a member of the music department of Westminster School before taking up his appointment as Assistant Organist of Gloucester Cathedral and Assistant to the Director of Music at the King's School in 1990. During this time, in addition to his regular work with the Cathedral Choir, Mark accompanied the choir twice to the USA, to Canada, Rome, and to Australia and New Zealand, and made with them a number of CDs, including the much-praised recording of masses by Langlais and Vièrne and that containing the music from BBC TV's The Choir. He also established an enviable reputation as a recitalist, performing at Westminster Abbey (three times), King's College, Cambridge, at the following cathedrals: St Paul's, Gloucester, Hereford, Southwark, Coventry, Exeter, Clifton and Chelmsford and also at Tewkesbury Abbey, Bath Abbey, Kidderminster Town Hall, the Fairfield Halls, Croydon, the Parr Hall, Warrington (as part of the prestigious series on the historic Cavaillé-Coll organ), and the Temple Church. Mark also performed at three Gloucester Three Choirs Festivals, including being the organ soloist in Janacek's Glagolitic Mass with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, and played freelance with the CBSO in a number of concerts.

In September 1998 Mark left Gloucester to become Master of the Choristers and Organist (now Director of Music) of Bristol Cathedral, and since that time has led the Cathedral Choir on tours of Bordeaux and Italy, and was also Musical Director for the 1999 Royal Maundy Service. Under his direction the Cathedral Choir has been seen and heard regularly on TV and national radio. The choristers even made an appearance on the stage of the Bristol Hippodrome in Puccini's Tosca. In Italy in 2001 they had the privilege of singing for the Pope at the Vatican and in 2001 and 2002 as part of the Bristol Cathedral Festival, they had the pleasure of singing with world-renowned soprano, Emma Kirkby. 2002 also heard them, together with Mark at the organ, in concert with renowned American organ virtuoso, Carlo Curley.

Since taking on the role of Musical Director for Bristol Cathedral Special Choir, Mark has directed many excellent programmes including Bach's B Minor Mass, and St John Passion and the recent Jubilee performance of Vaughan Williams' A Sea Symphony and Elgar's The Music Makers. With Mark, the choir has travelled to Leipzig, where we were privileged to sing in the Thomaskirche, to Budapest and most recently to Tallinn in October 2004. Currently we are at the planning stage for a visit to Tuscany in May 2007.