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| Background information | |
| Born | (1976-06-14) June 14, 1976 (age 48) Mexico City, Mexico |
| Genres | Contemporary Jazz, Experimental, Classical, Brazil (early) |
| Occupation(s) | Pianist, Composer, Record producer |
| Labels | RareNoiseRecords, Arta, Quindecim |
| Website | www |
Mark Aanderud (born 1976) is a Mexican-born pianist, composer, arranger, producer and conductor.
Aanderud started piano studies at 8 years old at the Escuela Nacional de Musica in Mexico City and made courses at Berklee School of Music and the SIM (School for improvised music) in NYC. He has studied classical composition with Mexican composer Arturo Marquez from 2007 and continued at the Prague Academy of Music under professor Hanuš Bartoň.
He started to perform professionally when he was 18 years old. Mark Aanderud is known as a jazz pianist and composer, but through the years he has become a versatile musicians. Performing, composing and recording in many genres of music from Jazz and classical music, to progressive rock or Latin music. His first album as a leader Mark Aanderud Trio 02 was awarded as best album of the year 2002 by the Czech Music Awards. Mark has performed and recorded with musicians such as Tim Berne, David Gilmore, Eli Degibri, Omar Rodriguez Lopez, Eric Reeves, Ximena Sariñana, Bill McHenry, Billy Martin, Cyro Baptista, Jonathan Kreisberg, Magos Herrera, Stomu Takeishi, Hernan Hecht, Agustin Bernal, Rick Parker and has performed many festivals and clubs in France, Germany, Czech Republic, Spain, England, Greece, Holand, United States, Mexico, Japan, Colombia, Argentina, etc.
In recent years, Mark has toured with international with his own projects Mole, Mark Aanderud Trio and his piano solo project “Animatic Theatre”, he has also recorded and produced Rock and Pop artists such as the Mexican singer-songwriter and actress Ximena Sariñana, Natalia Lafourcade, Ely Guerra and the Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Group. Mark has also recorded for The Mars Volta 2009 release "Octahedron".
Mark resides in Barcelona. He is now promoting his Solo Project “Animatic Theatre”, the Mark Aanderud Trio, MOLE, MASEnsemble, Grupo Quebrante and other side projects. He is an active classical and film composer under his own MOLE Productions.
ACTUAL WEBSITE www.markaanderud.net
Projects
SOLO
ANIMATIC THEATRE, SOLO PIANO PROJECT
Created in late 2013, it is an electro - acoustic piano solo project with visual projections mappings. The original piano music composed and performed by Mark Aanderud is a blend of classical, jazz, ambient and experimental music. The project was premiered during the Jazzbook festival in Mexico City in November 2013. ANIMATIC THEATRE by Mark Aanderud
TRIO
Started more than 10 years ago as a trio with Latin-Jazz influences has developed into an avant-garde trio where different improvisational and compositional concepts flow into what can be called a Jazz-Electronic-Pop Trio.
This trio has been through a long process where musicians such as Ziv Ravitz, Stomu Takeishi, Lenny Robinson, Herman Burney, Ricky Rodriguez and others have been part of.
MATRIO • America :
Mark Aanderud piano, Stomu Takeishi bass, Jeff Davies drums
MATRIO • Europe : Mark Aanderud piano, Masa Kamaguchi bass, Marc Miralta drums.
MOLE
The collective project between Mark Aanderud and drummer Hernan Hecht came to life after years of playing and producing different jazz and pop-rock projects together. This duet of contemporary experimental music expands in a wide variety of ways, from what started as 4 Limones with sax icon Tim Berne, to becoming a quartet with guitarist David Gilmore or a trio with bassist Stomu Takeishi or Aaron Cruz, it eventually returns to piano-drumms format.
The collective has now three albums on its own, the last two under the London based label Rarenoise Records.
www.moleband.com
Referencies
The Mars Volta
- Octahedron (2009)
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Group
- Los Sueños de un Higado (2009)
- Xenophanes (2009)
- Woman Gives Birth To Tomato! (2013)
David Gilmore - Tim Berne - Billy Martin - Cyro Baptista - Eric Reeves - Natalia Lafourcade - Bill McHenry - Jonathan Kreizberg - Eli Degibri
Discography
- 2012: MOLE, What's the meaning
- 2011: AANDERUD/ HECHT/ LETTNER, Live in Vienna
- 2011: MOLE, Gemini
- 2008: Crónicas y Relatos de Recuerdos Olvidados
- 2007: RHA TRIO,
- 2005: Introducing Mark Aanderud
- 2003: Mark Aanderud Trio 02
- 2002: AANDERUD/ BERNAL/ PUENTES, Common Diferences
- 1999: Aanderud Luna Cruz Trio
as a sideman alongside
- 2012: Omar Rodriguez Lopez group, Los Sueños de un higado
- 2009: The Mars Volta, Octahedron
- 2009: Omar Rodriguez Lopez group, Xenophanes
- 2006: Nathalie Braux, Analogies
- 2006: Magos Herrera, Todo puede inspirar
and more
Press
- LA JORNADA : , Antonio Malacara, 2013
- INDIEROCKS : , Tlaloc Ruiz, 2013
- JAZZWISE MAGAZINE : , Andy Robson, 2012
- THE PRAGUE POST : "Hip Homecoming", Ozuna, Tony, 2010