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Mark Isaacs

Born: June 22, 1958

Mark Isaacs is an internationally-acclaimed composer, pianist and conductor in classical music and jazz, and also a film composer and songwriter.

 

Isaacs has composed 134 works, many commissioned by Australia’s most distinguished orchestras, ensembles and musicians. His output includes three symphonies, six concertos, chamber, choral, vocal and solo works. He has received major awards including an Australia Council Fellowship, the Albert H. Maggs Composition Award and the Jean Bogan Prize for Piano Composition.

As a jazz pianist and composer, he has twice been nominated for the ARIA Award for Best Jazz Album, has recorded and toured worldwide including festivals such as Tokyo Jazz Festival and Pori Jazz Finland, working with some of the artform’s most legendary international figures like Roy Haynes, Dave Holland and Kenny Wheeler, and releasing many acclaimed albums on major international and Australian labels such as Naxos and ABC. 

Duende

By Mark Isaacs

Label: Gracemusic
Released: 2013
Track listing: First Light, You Never Forget Love; Duende; The Beloved; Dolce; New Lives; Gnosis; Duende (solo reprise); You Never Forget Love (extended mix).

Resurgence: Duende

by C. Michael Bailey
November 21, 2013

Australian pianist Mark Isaacs has hit a long stride with his band Resurgence, releasing the band's fourth recording Duende. His three previous recordings with Resurgence: Resurgence (ABC Jazz, 2007), Tell It Like It Is (ABC Jazz, 2010), and Aurora Aurora (Gracemusic, 2011) have progressively probed the edges of contemporary jazz, filling out the sound that one ...

Aurora

By Mark Isaacs

Label: Gracemusic
Released: 2011
Track listing: CD: Will-'o-the-wisp; Good Tidings; Emergence; Threnady; For the Road; Bagatelle; Aurora. DVD: Minsk; You Never Forget Love; Homecoming; Night Song Part 1; Night Song Part 2; Angel; Tell It Like It Is; Between the Shores. Bonus Features: Intro by Andrew Ford; What Was Said Between Songs.

Mark Isaacs Resurgence Band: Aurora

by C. Michael Bailey
March 8, 2011

The last artistic musical movement in jazz to be given a meaningful name was the post-bop movement. Arising out of the mid-1960s as a unifying response to hard bop, modal, the avant-garde and free jazz, post-bop has fairly well dominated the most creative jazz made in the last 30 years. If post-bop has a ground zero, ...

Mark Isaacs: Aurora

by John Kelman
February 9, 2011

As Tell It Like It Is (ABC Jazz, 2009), amply proved, sometimes it's better to work with local musicians who, through regular touring, establish a singular collective voice. That's not to say Resurgence (ABC Jazz, 2007) was bad--it's hard to imagine anything with bassist Jay Anderson, drummer Vinnie Colaiuta and saxophonist Bob Sheppard as lacking in ...

For the Road

February 9, 2011

Album: Aurora
By Mark Isaacs
Label: Gracemusic
Released: 2011
Duration: 09:31

Tell It Like It Is

By Mark Isaacs

Label: ABC Jazz
Released: 2010
Track listing: Minsk; You Never Forget Love; Homecoming; Night Song Part 1; Night Song Part 2; Angel; Tell It Like It Is; Between the Shores.

Korean Music Shines At Performing Arts Market in Seoul, October 11-15, 2010

by Ian Patterson
October 26, 2010

Performing Arts Market in SeoulNational Theater and selected venuesSeoul, South Korea11--15 October, 2010 The number of festivals, theaters and performance groups in South Korea has grown dramatically in the last twenty years and the tremendous developments in the fields of traditional music, jazz, dance and theater is testament to the ...

Mark Isaacs Resurgence Band: Tell It Like It Is

by C. Michael Bailey
February 26, 2010

Australian pianist Mark Isaacs has been recording forward-thinking progressive jazz for the past 25 years. His new millennium recordings have garnered popular response, including Closer (Naxos, 2000), Keeping the Standards (Vorticity Music, 2003), Visions (Vorticity Music, 2006), and Resurgence (ABC, 2007). During the last decade, Isaacs has been approaching a new assertive sound that unifies the ...