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Mark Aanderud (born 1976) is a Mexican-born pianist, composer, arranger, producer and conductor.

Pianist, composer and producer Mark Aanderud has been a leading musician for over a decade. He was born and raised in Mexico City and was introduced to the piano at an early age. His instinctive approach towards music went in direction of composition and improvisation even before learning to read notes. His love for Classical music was just the starting point for his interest in music and the infinite possibilities that exist within a particular style and the combination of those elements as an endless source of music experimentation. Mark has become a complex and eclectic musician who flows into whatever music is presented unto him. Mark studied classical piano at the Escuela Nacional de Música (UNAM) in Mexico City, followed by summer courses with the Berklee School of Music and The School for Improvised Music (SIM) in New York. He has studied Jazz piano and improvisation with Uri Caine, Steve Coleman, Ralph Alessi, Don Byron, Jason Moran, Bill Carrothers, Vijay Iyer, and classical composition with Arturo Marquez before he ended his studies of classical composition at the Prague Academy of Music under Hanus Bartoñ. Although Mark has done a career in Contemporary Jazz music, his interests go far beyond and is constantly looking for opportunities to get involved in music of other kinds. He creates projects that will challenge and provoke him to experiment different ideas and concepts of any music style from Jazz, Experimental, Classical, Avant-garde, to Progressive Rock, Ambient, Electronic, Latin, Brazilian and merging all this into his own sounds and concepts. Mark has played with many people though the years, this are a few significant artists from the list: The Mars Volta, David Gilmore, Tim Berne, Billy Martin (Medeski, Martin, Wood), Cyro Baptista, Omar Rodriguez Lopez, Eric Reeves, Stomu Takeishi, Natalia Lafourcade, Wolfgang Hafner, Ben Allison, Alex Sipiagin, Chris Cheek, Magos Herrera, Mike Moreno, Steven Bernstein (Sex Mob), Bill McHenry, Jonathan Kreizberg, Ben Perowsky, Eli Degibri, Ximena Sariñana, Ely Guerra, Magos Herrera, Hernan Hecht, Alex Kautz, etc. Mark Aanderud also collaborates with musicians in Barcelona and all Europe, Mexico and New York. He is an active recording artist, composer and producer for Jazz, Pop and Rock artists as well as for Film and multimedia productions.

With The Mars Volta

• Octahedron (2009)

With the Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Group

• Los Sueños de un Higado (2009)
• Xenophanes (2009)
• Woman Gives Birth To Tomato! (2013)

References

• Ozuna, Tony: "Hip Homecoming", The Prague Post, 2010-01-13.

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• Living people
• Mexican emigrants to the United States
• American conductors (music)
• American composers
• 1976 births