Piano Jury

A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, pianist Mark Anderson’s recordings and performances have met with widespread critical acclaim over the past several decades. Since his successes at the 1993 Leeds (U.K.) and 1994 William Kapell (U.S.) International Piano Competitions, Mark Anderson has appeared frequently as recitalist, soloist and chamber musician. He has performed in Japan, throughout much of Europe and Great Britain, Ireland and North America.

Mark Anderson has collaborated with conductors such as Sir Simon Rattle, Nicholas McCegan, William Boughton, George Cleve, and Adam Fischer. In recital, Mark has appeared at New York’s Alice Tully Hall and Weill Hall, the Kennedy Center and the Phillips Gallery in Washington D.C., London’s Wigmore Hall and Zurich’s Tonhalle and elsewhere throughout Europe and North America. His solo and concerto performances are complimented by chamber music work, most recently with the newly formed Röntgen Piano Trio. The trio is committed to illuminating the darker corners of the piano trio literature while giving fresh interpretations of the masterworks in that genre. Mark also enjoys performing 2-piano repertoire with pianist Michelle Mares.

Mr. Anderson records exclusively with Nimbus Records and has released recordings of works by Liszt, Schumann, Brahms, Dohnanyi, Copland, Gershwin, Mussorgsky and Stravinsky. He has recorded 2 CDs of the solo piano works by Hans von Bülow and, since 2014, has released four CDs of solo piano music of the German/Dutch composer Julius Röntgen. Along with recent recordings of Röntgen’s piano music, Mark is researching and editing scores of unpublished works that heretofore existed only in manuscript beginning with the A Minor Sonata (1898) on Röntgen 3. This work, along with the C-sharp Minor Sonata (1928) on Röntgen 4 are now available through Nimbus Music Publishing for world-wide distribution adding important, yet entirely unknown works into the piano repertoire. In 2019, Mark Anderson and Michelle Mares recorded a two-piano CD of works by Röntgen, Reinecke and Brahms which includes two unpublished works in that genre by Röntgen. These will be published by NMP upon release of the two-piano CD.

Mark received his early formative training in California with Trula Whelan and later with Aiko Onishi. In 1988, he received a Fulbright Scholarship to continue his studies at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, England under Ryszard Bakst. Subsequently, he continued his education privately with Benjamin Kaplan in London.