key, AU
Musician
Australian keyboardist ( and currently Managing Director) Mark O'Connor has been a part of the music industry in Australia for many years from being involved as a musician through the 80s and 90s to managing a number of prominant music businesses. Mark was involved in the transition of the Musical Product Stores managed in the 1990s by the Brash Group, to becoming Allans Music Stores in the late 90s and early 2000s and was Project Manager for the move of the Allans store in 1995 from 276 Collins St, where it had been for over 100 years, to the new Bourke St location. In 1999 he was appointed Project Manager for the opening of stores in Brisbane, Sydney and the Melbourne store in Kew and appointed General Manager, Retail Stores. In 2004 he became the General Manager for Steinway sales in Victoria and South Australia and has spent time training with Steinway in London and Hamburg. The end of 2008 saw the beginning of the coming together of Steinway & Sons, Mr Lindsay Fox and Mark O'Connor in the formation of The Exclusive Piano Group.