About

A creative community builder, Mark Haney took on the newly created role of Manager of Arts and Culture for the City of Mission in December 2022. As the former Managing Artistic Director of Little Chamber Music and Composer-in-Residence at Mountain View Cemetery, Mark created over a dozen large-scale, free public events that engaged communities through innovative, creativity-based interdisciplinary projects.

As a double bassist Mark has performed, recorded, and toured internationally in a variety of genres including orchestral, tango, folk, pop and inter-cultural collaboration. Best known as a composer for “Aim for the Roses” (2010) an avant-garde double bass suite that tells the true story of Canadian daredevil Ken Carter, and “Omnis Temporalis” (2022) a collaboration with the acclaimed cartoonist Seth, Mark is releasing Placentia Bay: Summer of 1941 (A Concerto for Double Bass) in August 2024.

Mark was named a “Canadian Arts Hero of 2020” by the Globe and Mail for his leadership of Little Chamber Music’s pandemic response, including the nationally recognized Isolation Commissions and the cinematic livestream of Human Shadow Etched in Stone, a Hiroshima memorial concert performed on the 75^th anniversary of the bombing.