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Founder, publisher, and principal writer Mark Gresham (b. 1956) has over 35 years of experience writing about classical and post-classical music and other arts. In 2003, Gresham received an ASCAP/Deems Taylor Award for music journalism. A composer, conductor, and journalist, he co-founded the monthly publication Chorus! in 1989 and edited it through 1995. Thirteen of his interviews from the magazine were published in 1997 as a book, Choral Conversations. Before founding EarRelevant, he was a contributing writer for Creative Loafing from 2002 to 2011 and then for ArtsATL until mid-February 2019. He has also written for NewMusicBox, American Record Guide, OPERA Magazine (UK), Where Atlanta/Georgia Traveler, among others.















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