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Mark Zaleski
About Me
Mark Zaleski is a woodwind specialist, performing professionally on all saxophones,
clarinets, and flutes. He formed his first professional band out of Boylston, MA at the age
of 13. Called the Eastern Jazz Project, the group released a CD and was nominated for the
Worcester Magazine Wormtown Music Award in the category of Best Local Jazz Act.
At the age of 18 Mr. Zaleski was one of six people in the country to be selected to
study at the Dave Brubeck Institute in Stockton, CA. During his time at the Institute he
performed at the Monterey Jazz Festival, the Dakota Jazz Club in Minneanapolis, MN,
Yoshi's Jazz Club in Oakland, CA, and the Library of Congress in Washington, DC among
other venues around the country with the Brubeck Institute Jazz Sextet.
Mr. Zaleski has experience performing with such jazz luminaries as Bennie Maupin,
Mic Gilette of Tower of Power, Robin Eubanks, Eric Harland, Ndugu Chancellor, Christian
McBride, and Dave Brubeck. In October of 2006 he performed with Ian Anderson and
Jethro Tull on bass clarinet and clarinet in a month-long national tour called Ian
Anderson plays the Orchestral Jethro Tull.
Mr. Zaleski currently studies at the New England Conservatory of Music and studies
with Jerry Bergonzi and Charlie Banacos and is also on adjunct faculty at Quabbin Regional
High School in Barre, MA. You can catch the Mark Zaleski Quintet performing in Boston
area regularly. For more information on dates and to hear his music see
www.markzaleskimusic.com .