Mark Takeshi McGregor is a Canadian flautist, educator, music producer, curator, and visual artist based in Vancouver. He was born on December 20, 1972 in Richmond, BC, and grew up in North Delta, BC. He received his Bachelor of Music degree from the University of British Columbia (UBC) in 1995; the Concours de Musique from le Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal in 1997; Master of Music from the University of Sydney, Australia, where he studied with Margaret Crawford and Richard Toop (thesis topic: Evolution of extended techniques in the flute music of Brian Ferneyhough); and a Doctorate of Musical Arts from UBC in 2012 (thesis topic: Of Instrumental Value: Composer-performer collaboration in the creation of avant-garde flute music). In 2001, Jordan Nobles and Mark Takeshi McGregor co-founded Vancouver's Redshift Music Society, an organization founded in 2001 which commissions and premieres new works by Canadian and international composers. Mark was co-artistic director along with Nobles from 2005 to 2012 and helped launch the Redshift Records record label, which released its first CD in 2007. Mark has been featured on and has produced a number of their 40 releases, which feature the music of contemporary Canadian and international composers. He was the artistic director of Powell Street Festival Society in Vancouver from 2015 to 2016. In 2021 he succeeded S.D. Holman as artistic director and executive director of the Queer Arts Festival in Vancouver. As a flautist and performer, Mark has premiered flute concertos by Gordon Fitzell, Anna Höstman, James Beckwith Maxwell, and Piotr Grella-Mozejko, and has commissioned and premiered dozens solo and chamber music by dozens of contemporary Canadian and international composers, including Pedro Alvarez, Dániel Péter Biró, Philip Brownlee, Jennifer Butler, Dorothy Chang, André Cormier, Michael Finnissy, Graham Flett, Patrick Giguère, Etsuko Hori, Kaiyi Kao, Yota Kobayashi, Chris Kovarik, Emilie LeBel, Hope Lee, Ellen Lindquist, Nicole Lizée, Simon Martin, Cassandra Miller, Jocelyn Morlock, Gregory Lee Newsome, Jordan Nobles, Anders Nordentoft, James O’Callaghan, Michael Oesterle, Nova Pon, Marci Rabe, Benton Roark, Jeffrey Ryan, Farshid Samandari, Alfredo Santa Ana, Rodney Sharman, Paul Steenhuisen, Edward Top, Hiroki Tsurumoto, and Owen Underhill. He is most frequently heard in concert as soloist, with Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa as the Tiresias Duo, and as flautist for the Victoria-based new music ensemble, Aventa. He is an instructor of flute at the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (VSO) School of Music, the Vancouver Academy of Music, and Vancouver Community College. He served as sessional faculty (flute) at the University of Victoria in 2016. In 2020, Mark was the winner of the Western Canadian Music Award “Classical Artist/Ensemble of the Year” for his album, Lutalica, which features the solo flute music of Pacific Rim composers. In 2021, he received the Friends of Canadian Music Award. He also draws and paints when he is not performing internationally, and his works have been displayed at the Vancouver Queer Arts Festival and the Japanese Canadian Heritage Museum.