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Jeffrey Uhlig

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Jeff has been with the Ocean City Pops for 20 years. He has a Masters of Music Degree in Piano Performance from West Chester University. Additional piano study was with William Masselos, Gaby Casadesus and Study of the Art Song Literature with Dalton Baldwin. He is Principal Keyboard with The Princeton Symphony. He holds The Lilian Kraus Felber Distinguished Faculty Chair in Piano at Settlement Music School in Philadelphia where he is Staff Accompanist and a Teacher.

Jeff has appeared as collaborative pianist in many concerts in North America with members of The Philadelphia Orchestra, The New York Philharmonic, and the Metropolitan Opera, and has played at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall and at The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. He has also performed in Russia.

Mark O'Kain

Percussion

Mark has been a member of the Ocean City Pops since 1998. For the past 10 years, Mark has also been busy working as a musician with touring Broadway shows. He has played on the National tours of “Les Miserables”, “Edward Scissorhands”, and “My Fair Lady”. This year Mark will be starting a new job as the touring drummer with the Broadway tour of “Mary Poppins”. At last count he has played in 1750 performances of “Les Miz”, worked in over 115 cities, and accumulated lots of frequent flyer miles.

Mark is a former percussionist at Opryland, U.S.A. in Nashville, and was a member of "The President’s Own" United States Marine Band from 1994-98. Mark performs frequently with Pops pianist, Jeff Uhlig. They recently released a CD entitled “Classics to Ragtime”. If he looks stressed, it is most likely from juggling his duties as POPS Percussionist, Personnel Manager, and Music Librarian.