Born in New York and raised in California, Mark Wein has been performing and teaching music in Southern California for over 30 years.
After graduating from Fullerton College with a degree in Commercial Music Performance, Mark worked steadily performing and recording with groups such as the swing group “The Scot Willy Combo”, “The Ken Foerch Group” fusion band, blues bands “The New Originals”, “The Wild Double Trio”, “Kingsize” and “The Metropolitans” and rock groups such as “Felt”, “Ultralight”, Jennifer Corday and the cover bands “All Star Trio” and “The Automatix”. Throughout this time Mark also worked as both a private guitar Instructor and a guitar teacher at St. Catherine’s Academy in Anaheim, Ca.
From 2004-2016 Mark and his wife Christine owned and operated Premier Music, a full-service music school in the city of Orange, California complete with private lessons, clinics and performance classes for all instruments.
Mark is the author of the books “Foundations for Guitar” and “Expanded Blues Guitar” as well as countless online video guitar lessons and blogs via his YouTube channel and website MarkWeinGuitarLessons.com
After taking a hiatus from performing to focus on building both his music school and family life Mark returned to performing in 2010 with the All Star Trio, Kingsize and the Automatix. In 2014 Mark released his first solo Blues album “Black Market Hearts”.
Mark was a finalist in The Next Top Guitar Instructor 2014 contest and now is on staff at Truefire.com.
Currently, Mark teaches privately via Skype, in his home studio in Orange CA and at the Jazz and Guitar conservatories at the Orange County School of the Arts in Santa Ana, Ca.
