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Mark O'Leary

Born: October 20, 1969

Mark O'Leary was born in Cork City Ireland.Being mainly auto didactic on guitar, he played with a number of local bands including; Midway that led to joining the cult band  Interference for a brief period and Mandrake Root with Brendan O'Connor of RTE and a Synth band called Voltaire. He moved to Los Angeles at the age of 17 to study at Musicians Institute,from where he later graduated. He was the guitar/music teacher of acadaemy award winning best actor Cillian Murphy. He has presented his music in 29 countries and has played at some of the worlds top Jazz festivals and the Kennedy center twice, Knitting Factory, Tonic, CBGB's, Nublu and the Bowery. He had the distinction of performing in the Kenny Wheeler quartet, performed with David Murray and Larry Coryell. He toured Europe and was a member of Canadian Pianist Paul Bley's Last trio where he replaced Bill Frisell. He recorded White Album with Paul Motian, If I see Further than you with Joey Baron and Michael Formanek, as well as A Simple Question with Marc Johnson and Bill Stewart. All on the TIBProd Italy imprint. He toured and recorded the seminal Awakening album with Steve Swallow and Pierre Favre, which earned a review in Jazzwise UK alluding to O'Leary as the most creative guitarist in Ireland and Ireland's best kept secret. He toured and recorded Levitation with Tomasz Stanko and Billy Hart. His album Waiting with Cuong Vu and Tom Rainey which Brian Morton has termed magnificent and had John Fordham of the Guardian praise O'Leary as a superb acoustic guitarist.