Mark Anderson
Pianist
In a world where transient glitter is often mistaken for pianistic excellence, Anderson offered
that rare commodity: an ability to speak through music without hint of artifice.– The Washington Post
A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, pianist Mark Anderson’s recordings and performances have met with widespread critical acclaim. 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.
“In a world where transient glitter is often mistaken for pianistic excellence, Anderson offered that rare commodity: an ability to speak through music without hint of artifice.”
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 has an international performing schedule for the 2024/25 season.
Mr. Anderson records exclusively with Nimbus Records and has released recordings of works by Liszt, Schumann, Brahms and 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. His latest recording, a 2-piano CD recorded with pianist Michelle Mares, was released in October 2020 with works by Röntgen, Reinecke and Brahms, is available online at YouTube, Amazon, Apple Music, Spotify and other online music distributors. Included on this latest disc are two 2-piano works by Julius Röntgen that have previously not been recorded or published. The scores for these works are available from Nimbus Music Publishing. In November 2023, he recorded Röntgen VI, his fifth collection Röntgen’s solo piano works, which will be released later in 2024.
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 concluded his formal education privately with Benjamin Kaplan in London.
Mark Anderson is Associate Professor of Piano, Chamber Music and Piano Pedagogy at the University of British Columbia School of Music. Until 2019, Mark was the owner and Executive Director of New World Music Academy in Pleasanton, California. Mr. Anderson is Steinway artist.