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Mark Tipton is a trumpeter, composer, music educator, and producer with boundless musical curiosity, who has explored many styles, from jazz to R&B, avant-garde to global styles, and classical to rock. A native of Maine, he has lived and worked in New York City, Los Angeles, and Boston. He holds music degrees from Oberlin Conservatory, Mannes College of Music, and he is currently finishing his doctoral thesis at the New England Conservatory of Music.
He has studied privately with Jason Palmer, Jerry Bergonzi, John McNeil, Billy Hart, Joe Morris, Ken Schaphorst, and Vincent Penzarella. Mark has recently performed and/or recorded with Dave Holland, Tom Varner, Mehmet Ali Sanlikol, Ran Blake, Michael Formanek, Jason Moran, Anna Webber, Don Byron, Edsel Gomez, Nilson Matta, Rafael Barata, Emmanuel Attah Poku, and others.
His compositional works include jazz compositions, contemporary chamber works, multi-disciplinary installations, pop songs, and silent film scores. He has won grants through the Presser Foundation and the Maine Arts Commission, and has performed across the US and Western Europe. This past summer he toured Turkey and Cyprus Grammy-nominated jazz pianist/composer Mehmet Sanlikol.
His new album of original jazz compositions, Vernacular Stretch, will be released in mid-December 2025. He currently serves as the Lead Instructor for Jazz and Contemporary Musical Arts at the Walnut Hill School for the Arts in Natick (MA), and he is a Doctoral Fellow at the New England Conservatory of Music. He leads a quartet and trio, and also plays lead trumpet with the Kira Daglio Fine (KDF) Big Band and the Seulah Noh Jazz Orchestra.
Mark Tipton, trumpet & flugelhorn; Annalise Stalls, alto & soprano saxophones; Gabriel Nieves, tenor saxophone; Joey Dies, trombone; Keegan Marshall-House, piano; Kai Lance, guitar; Daniel Mayer, bass; Caleb Montague, drums
All compositions by Mark Tipton)
Blue Heron Voyage
Avaricious Beauty
Paradoxical Dreams
Lament for Glaciers
A Healing Touch of Madness
Ineffable Consciousness
Vernacular Stretch
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