Mark Turner
Saxophone – Jazz Institute, Advanced Package
devoted jazz educator, Mark Turner returns in 2016 for his fourth year on the SJW faculty. He will also be performing in the Stanford Jazz Festival.
A native of Fairborn, Ohio, Mark Turner moved with his family to California when he was four. Mark started playing clarinet at 9 then later switched to alto and tenor saxophone as a teenager. He studied art at California State University, Long Beach and California College of Arts and Crafts. He then transferred to the Berklee College of Music, graduating in 1990 with a BM in Performance.
Currently residing in New York, he has worked and/or recorded with musicians such as Kurt Rosenwinkel, Dave Holland, Paul Motian, Brad Mehldau, John Pattitucci, Dave Douglass, Bill Hart, Lee Konitz, and James Moody. He appears on dozens of recordings as a sideman as well as five of his own recordings.

Mikailo Kasha

Anisha Rush

Jenny Xu

Kilan Thorns

Zach Adleman

Hannah Marks

Jhoely Garay

Jayla Chee

Taylor Eigsti

Dena DeRose

George Cables

Paul Cornish

Lorca Hart

Maya Kronfeld

Caroline Davis

Michael Mitchell

Tomoko Funaki

Steven Lugerner

Marcus Shelby

Patrick Wolff

Randy Porter
