Mark Dresser, a former student of Bert Turetzky, was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to pursue advanced studies with Franco Petracchi. A founding member of the Arcado String Trio and the Mark Dresser Trio, his projects have taken him throughout North America, Europe and the Far East. Mark was commissioned to compose For Not the Law for the WDR Radio Orchestra of Koln, featuring the members of the Arcado String Trio as soloists and recorded by JMT in 1991. He was also commissioned to write Armadillo for the WDR Big Band, also with Arcado. A 1995 commission for The Banquet, a double concerto for various flutes and contrabass with string quartet, features Swiss flute virtuoso Matthias Ziegler. He has performed and recorded with many of the luminaries of new jazz composition and improvisation, including a ten-year association with the Anthony Braxton Quartet and diverse groups led by Ray Anderson, Tim Berne, Anthony Davis, Gerry Hemingway, Bob Ostertag, John Zorn and others. He has made over sixty recordings.

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