Mark Duggan has composed commissioned works for the percussion quintet Nexus, the Evergreen Club Contemporary Gamelan, the chamber group Sanctuary, Roots Orchestra, Madawaska String Quartet, Newfoundland Sound Symposium, percussionists Morris Palter, Michelle Colton and choreographers Susan Lee and Maxine Heppner. His compositions for percussion have been performed around the world and his work Three Americas was a finalist in the 2006 Quey Percussion Competition. Duggan has released five CDs of his own music and has been twice nominated by both the Juno and East Coast Music Awards. Duggan holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in world percussion from the California Institute of the Arts and a Doctor of Musical Arts in performance from the University of Toronto.
As a percussionist Duggan is a versatile performer active in multiple musical genres. His passionate blend of classical and world percussion has impressed audiences from the Tongyeong Music Festival in Korea and Lincoln Center in New York, to the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland. Duggan has performed with the Philip Glass Ensemble, Ensemble Intercontemporain de Paris with Pierre Boulez, the percussion group Nexus and is a regular performer with the Toronto Symphony, National Ballet of Canada Orchestra, Toronto New Music Concerts and the Esprit Orchestra. Duggan is a founding member of Toronto’s Evergreen Club Contemporary Gamelan (since 1983) and has performed with them throughout Canada, Europe, Asia and the US. Duggan has also appeared with many jazz and world music artists including Diana Krall, Charlie Haden, Maria Schneider, Guinga, Petula Clark and the Brazilian quintet TACAP.