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From being a chorister at Ewell Parish Church in Surrey, Mark Dancer began his organ studies with Michael Fleming at Addington Palace, then home of the Royal School of Church Music, passing ARCO and LRAM in Organ Performance while still at school. He read music at Durham University and was Organ Scholar of the College of St Hilda and St Bede, continuing his organ studies with Alan Thurlow and David Hill, gaining FRCO in 1984.
In 1986 he moved to Birmingham with his fiancee, now wife Rosemary Field (who has been appointed assistant organist at Birmingham Cathedral), and became a Layclerk at Birmingham Cathedral and Organist of Carrs Lane URC in the city centre.
In 1995, after a term as assistant organist at Birmingham Cathedral, he rejoined Rosemary in Hampshire, where she had taken up the post of Church Music Adviser. After a period as Organist at St Georges, Waterlooville, where he oversaw the restoration of the organ, Mark was appointed Director of Music at St Peter's, Petersfield in 1997. Since the re-ordering of St Peter's in 1998-9, he has established a summer lunchtime organ recital series, which has been growing in popularity. He is conductor of the Petersfield Choral Society, and developing a recently acquired interest in composition, which resulted in him being commissioned to compose the anthem for the Petersfield Music Festival's Centenary Service in 2000.
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