Mark Polishook

Mark Polishook is an American music educator, pianist, and composer.

Polishook studied jazz piano at the New England Conservatory of Music and at the Manhattan School of Music and Composition and at the University of Pittsburgh (Masters); he received his PhD from the Hartt School of Music . His composition teachers included Eugene Kurtz , Ludmilla Uelehla , Robert Carl and James Sellars . He taught jazz piano and composition at the University of Maine at Augusta and later directed the music theory and composition program in the Department of Music at Central Washington University for eight years .

He has also given lectures at the Studio for Electroacoustic Music at the Kraków Music Academy and courses in electronic music at Montclair State University and Montclair State Honors College as part of the Fulbright program . As an Internet Artist in Residence at the University of Maine at Augusta , he teaches selected students via Skype .

As a pianist, Polishook combines elements of classical music with those of jazz. His teachers as a jazz pianist were Jaki Byard , Charlie Banacos and Marian McPartland . He has worked with jazz musicians such as Ted Curson , Kenny Garrett , Cassandra Wilson , Eddie Gomez , Richard Davis , Little Jimmy Scott , Sonny Fortune and Mark Murphy and has given improvisation concerts as a piano soloist in Leicester, Krakow, Hong Kong and the United States. His opera Seed of Sarah was filmed as a video collage by Andrea Weiss .

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SURNAME	Polishook, Mark
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American music educator, pianist, and composer
DATE OF BIRTH	20th century