Dr. Mark U. Reimer is Director of Music at Christopher Newport University, a comprehensive state institution of higher education located in the resort area of Hampton Roads, Virginia, and accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music. In addition to his responsibilities as an administrator, Dr. Reimer conducts the CNU Wind Ensemble, the CNU Contemporary Music Ensemble, and the CNU Chamber Performers on their international tours (including Germany, The Netherlands, Italy, France, Austria, Slovenia, and Scotland); teaches conducting, wind literature, and aural skills; and serves frequently as a guest conductor, clinician, and adjudicator in the United States and abroad. He is a clinician for Festivals of Music and FiestaVal.

A recipient of an Indiana University Fellowship to Germany, Dr. Reimer has published articles in the leading international wind band magazines and journals including the Journal of Band Research, Journal of the College Band Directors National Association, Music Educators Journal, The Instrumentalist, Journal of the World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles, Alta Musica of the International Society for the Promotion and Investigation of Wind Music, TUBA Journal, and Conference Proceedings of the Global Awareness Society International. He has presented papers in Germany, Hungary, Italy, Turkey, New York, New Orleans, Norfolk, and Williamsburg.

Dr. Reimer is the USA Southern Region Representative for the World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles and a member of the International Society for the Promotion and Investigation of Wind Music, the College Band Directors National Association, the Council of Arts Administration in Virginia Higher Education, the Bay Youth Orchestras of Virginia, Inc. Advisory Board, and the Tubists Universal Brotherhood Association. In addition, he serves as Governor of Province 18 (Virginia) of the professional music fraternity, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia.

Dr. Reimer received the Bachelor of Music Education degree from Drake University, the Master of Music degree in wind conducting and literature from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, and the Doctor of Music degree in wind conducting and literature from Indiana University. His conducting teachers include Ray Cramer, Terrence Milligan, and Don Marcouiller, and his brass teachers include Harvey Phillips, Sam Green, and Robert Weast.