Mark O'Connor

Mark O'Connor is an American classical, bluegrass, jazz and country violinist, fiddler, and compose. He has composed, arranged, and recorded American music across genres including folk, classical and jazz.

O'Connor has worked and recorded with a wide variety of artists including as Chet Atkins, James Taylor, Michelle Shocked, Alison Krauss, David Grisman, Tony Rice, Bela Fleck, Renée Fleming, Pinchas Zukerman, Stéphane Grappelli, Patty Loveless, The Dixie Dregs, John Hartford and Wynton Marsalis. He has recorded solo albums as well as some tributes to his musical mentors and inspirations.

He worked on the arrangements in an original score for the American Revolutionary War-era Public Broadcasting Service documentary miniseries, ''Liberty! The American Revolution''. The theme music for the miniseries is O'Connor's "Song of the Liberty Bell."