Mark Anderson

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Mark Anderson is Director of the Music Technology Program at Foothill College. Before developing the Music Technology Program, he served as Chair of the Music Department and Director of Jazz Studies at Foothill. He has also developed course materials and serves on the Advisory Committee for the Music Technology Program at Clackamas Community College in Portland, Oregon.

Prior to joining the faculty at Foothill, he was Director of Jazz Studies at Fresno City College from 1987 - 1989, and Graduate Teaching Assistant in Jazz Studies at the University of Denver, Lamont School of Music from 1980-1983. After graduating with a Bachelor's Degree in Education from Southern Oregon University in 1978, he taught instrumental and choral music in the Oregon public schools until 1980. After graduate school, he pursued a career as a full time professional musician and booking agent in Denver during the 80's, playing hundreds of recording sessions until moving to California in 1987.

Mark's recognitions include a California Music Award for engineering and performing on "Adelante", the "World Beat Album of the Year" in 1996, and "Innovator of the Year" at Foothill-DeAnza in 1999. His compositions and arrangements for jazz ensemble are performed frequently at Universities, Colleges and Jazz Festivals throughout the United States, Japan and Europe. His Etudes for Trombone, published by Hal Leonard as part of Stylistic Etudes in The Jazz Idiom are used as audition material by the International Association of Jazz Educators.

He performs regularly at The Avalon in Ashland, Oregon with an all star jazz sextet, and is an avid golfer, sporting an 8 handicap. He resides half the year in California, and half in Mount Vernon, Washington.