Mark Aanderud
Mark Aanderud (born 1976) is a Mexican pianist, composer, arranger, producer and conductor.[1]
Aanderud started piano studies at 8 years old at the Escuela Nacional de Musica in Mexico City. He started to perform professionally when he was 18 years old. Aanderud is known as a jazz pianist and composer, but through the years he has also performed, composed and recorded in several genres from Jazz and classical music to progressive rock and Latin music.[2] His first CD as a leader, , was awarded best jazz album of the year 2003 by the Czech Music Awards.[3]
In recent years, Aanderud has toured with international artists including the Mexican singer-songwriter and actress Ximena Sariñana and the Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Group. Aanderud has also recorded additional piano parts with The Mars Volta for their 2009 release Octahedron.[4]
Aanderud is a classical composition student at the Academy of Music in Prague and tours with Mark Aanderud Trio and Mark Aanderud Ensemble.[5]
With The Mars Volta[]
- Octahedron (2009)
With Stomu Takeishi, Hernán Hecht[]
- RGB (RareNoise Records, 2014)
With the Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Group[]
- Los Sueños de un Higado (2009)
- Xenophanes (2009)
- Woman Gives Birth To Tomato! (2013)
- Doom Patrol (2017)
References[]
- ^ "Bio – Mark Aanderud". House of Beautiful Business. Retrieved 27 February 2020.
- ^ "Mark Aanderud, Hernan Hecht and Stomu Takeishi as Molé Present a New Take On the Piano Trio with their Highly Evocative 'RGB' on RareNoiseRecords | JazzCorner.com News". www.jazzcorner.com. 13 November 2014. Retrieved 27 February 2020.
- ^ "Mark Aanderud – Centro de Estudios de Jazz". www.uv.mx. Retrieved 27 February 2020.
- ^ "Octahedron – The Mars Volta | Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved 27 February 2020.
- ^ "Mark Aanderud Biography, Age, Height, Net worth, Son, Daughter, Family". Retrieved 27 February 2020.
- Ozuna, Tony: "Hip Homecoming", The Prague Post, 2010-01-13.
- Living people
- 1976 births
- Mexican jazz musicians
- Mexican jazz pianists
- 21st-century pianists
- RareNoiseRecords artists