Fr Mark Baumgarten

Fr Mark recently sat down with local Catholic publication The Record to discuss his debut album.

We've just found out that Fr Mark's song "World Grow Up" has been selected as a semi-finalist in the 2021 International Songwriting Competition (unsigned category), a competition which receives tens of thousands of entries!  You can get the song here…

Fr Mark’s debut album “Now and Not Yet” is officially out in the world!  You can get the album at https://pianopriest.com/music and stream it on all the standard platforms. 

For those who would like to live-stream the album launch concert…

Fr Mark has offered some thoughts about his upcoming album in a Facebook post:

As you may have heard, I have an album of original songs coming out next week, and I thought it might be worth saying something about…

Fr Mark has dropped a new single ahead of his album release on the 25th of February. It's called Wake-up Juice, and is a recent reworking of a rag instrumental he wrote several years ago. Check it out!

Tickets are now available for Fr Mark's album launch concert, which will be at 7:30pm on Saturday 26th of February. The concert will feature several of the musicians who helped with the album recording, and CDs will also be available…

BIG NEWS!  We finally have a date for the launch of Fr Mark's debut album ‘Now and Not Yet’!

From Friday 25th February the album will be available for purchase and download here at pianopriest.com, as well as iTunes and…

A quick album update: we’ve reached a major milestone as the album mix is now officially completed! The tracks will now head off to be mastered, after which CDs can be printed and the album launch finalised. It’s looking like…

A very special behind-the-scenes clip for you, as Patrick and Simon from Artisan Music unleash skills perfected from years of studio experience!

On Sunday 18th of October 2009, Fr Mark (then a 3rd year seminarian) hosted a fundraising concert at St Charles' Seminary, Guildford, overlooking the beautiful Swan River.

Aussie banjo legend Ian Simpson joined us in the studio last month, and in one take transformed a ragtime number into a full-on hoedown.

Fr Mark's latest single--"The Promised Land"--is out now! You can download it for free from the music page, stream it on Spotify and elsewhere, or check out the lyric video on YouTube.