zanter

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Full name: Mark Zanter
Gender: Male
Country: United States
About you: Mark Zanter, an active composer/performer, has received commissions from the UIUC
Creative Music Orchestra, CU Symphony, the American Composers forum, the WV
Commission on the Arts, WVMTA, and numerous soloists. His works have been performed
nationally and internationally at festivals including, MUSIC '98 (Cincinnati Conservatory) June
in Buffalo, The Cortona Contemporary Music Festival, and the Atlantic Center for the Arts.
As a performer Dr. Zanter is equally at home performing standard repertoire, creative music,
and jazz and has appeared with orchestras, chamber groups, and improvisers, including the
Huntington Symphony Orchestra, the Ohio Valley Orchestra, Sinfonia Da Camera, Anthony
Braxton, Roscoe Mitchell, Leroy Jenkins, Vinko Globokar, George Lewis, Butch Morris, and
Alphonse Mouzon. He has recorded with Deborah Richtmeyer, Vinko Globokar, and his work
with Anthony Braxton received special mention in Downbeat Magazine.
Dr. Zanter is currently associate professor of music theory and composition at Marshall
University, Huntington, WV.
URL of homepage: http://www.myspace.com/markzanter
Instruments: accordion