Mark Anderson:
CLASS OF 1974
Redmond High SchoolClass of 1974
Redmond, OR
University of Denver - Lamont School of MusicClass of 1983
Denver, CO
Scio High SchoolClass of 1981
Scio, OR
Wasco County High SchoolClass of 1979
Maupin, OR
Southern Oregon UniversityClass of 1978
Ashland, OR
Mark's Story
Life
Mark Anderson is the Dean of the Fine Arts Division and Director of the Music Technology Program at Foothill College, in Los Altos Hills, California. 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 for Music Business 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...Expand for more
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 following the sun 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.Â
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