First prize winner in the Bruges International Harpsichord Competition, Canadian-American harpsichordist and organist Mark Edwards is recognized for his captivating performances, bringing the listener “to new and unpredictable regions, using all of the resources of his instrument, […] of his virtuosity, and of his imagination” (La Libre Belgique). He is Associate Professor of Harpsichord at Oberlin Conservatory and the Eastman School of Music.

He has given solo performances at a number of prominent festivals and concert series, including the Utrecht Early Music Festival, the Boston Early Music Festival, and Bozar (Brussels). He has had concerto performances with a number of award-winning ensembles, including Il Gardellino (Belgium), Neobarock (Germany), and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, and he collaborates regularly with Les Boréades de Montréal and Les Délices (Cleveland). His début solo CD, Orpheus Descending, was released in 2017 and was reviewed warmly. In August 2025, Edwards began the Via Bach video recording series, a project of publishing the complete keyboard works of J.S. Bach over the course of ten years.

Edwards is the recipient of academic grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). He studied at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY, where he earned his Bachelor of Music with highest distinction, and completed graduate degrees at McGill University and the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg. His former teachers include Robert Hill, William Porter, and David Higgs. In 2021, he received a PhD from Leiden University after successfully defending his dissertation titled “Moving Early Music: Improvisation and the Work-Concept in Seventeenth-Century French Keyboard Performance.”