Mark is currently Assistant Professor of Choral Activities at Oklahoma State University. Prior to his appointment at OSU, Dr. Lawlor was Director of Choral Activities at Idaho State University and Associate Director of Choral Activities at Arizona State University. At Idaho State, he taught both undergraduates and masters students and conducted the Concert Choir, Chamber Choir, and the 100 voice community Camerata Singers. While at Arizona State he taught undergraduates, conducted the University Choir, the 210 voice community-based Choral Union and supervised student teachers.

Dr. Lawlor was a member of the Faculty and Chair of the Music Department at Marist College, Poughkeepsie, New York, for eleven years. He held the position of Choral Conductor at the United States Military Academy at West Point for eight years, conducting six of the choirs, traveling extensively throughout the United States and Canada. He has prepared choirs to sing for several United States Presidents, the Bob Hope Show, and the Kenney Rogers Holiday Tour. His choirs have recorded with New York City Opera soprano Rosemarie Freni, and have sung for Lincoln Center Special Events Programming, as well as the Fox Television Network.

Mark has performed with the New York Philharmonic, the Milwaukee Symphony, the Florida State Symphony, the New Jersey Symphony, the Arizona State University Orchestra, the Phoenix (Arizona) Symphony, the Hudson Valley (New York) Philharmonic, the Academia Vivaldiana (Italy), and the Orchestra Sinfonica Nova Amadeus (Italy). He has sung with Florida State Opera, and Taconic Opera (New York).
His Carnegie Hall conducting debut was in 2006 performing several Mozart works. Lawlor will again be on the podium of Carnegie Hall, performing Mozart, in 2010.

Mark Lawlor received his Bachelor of Music degree from Westminster Choir College, Princeton, New Jersey, working under Dennis Shrock and Joseph Flummerfelt. He received his Masters of Music degree from Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, where Robert Shaw held the Housewright Music Chair, working under Colleen Kirk and Andre Thomas. Lawlor received his Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Arizona State University under David Stocker, Jill Sullivan and George Umberson.