Mark Applebaum
- Meridian Arts Ensemble, Christopher Froh, Florian Conzetti, Stanford Symphony Orchestra, Christopher Jones, Terry Longshore, Jindong Cai, Mark Applebaum, sfSound, Beta Collide, Brian McWhorter, Paul Dresher Electro-Acoustic Band, Duo Runedako
- Peter Burwik, Ensemble XX. Jahrhundert, Magnus Andersson, Jaan Bossier, Harmida Piano Trio, Skin and Bones Percussion Duo, Mark Applebaum, Berndt Thurner, Champ d'Action
- Mark Applebaum, St. Lawrence String Quartet, Inauthentica, Stanford Jazz Orchestra, Mark Menzies, Frederick Berry
- Andy Meyerson, Julianne Stern, Henry Lee, Justine Lai, Karl Pichotta, Drew Peterson, Molly Butcher, Matt Spitz, Aubrey Munoz, Alex Bandza, Mark Applebaum, Michael Lindquist, Cheri Li, Nick Schlag, Krystal Barghelame, Spartacus Locus, Kevin Montag
- Stanford Symphony Orchestra, Josh Levine, Scott Walton, Sylvia Re, Ann Krinitsky, J. Karla Lemon, Aleck Karis, Brett Reed, Terry Longshore, Jindong Cai, Vanessa Tomlinson, Mark Applebaum, University of California Singers, San Diego
- Terry Longshore, Shannon Wettstein, Mark Applebaum, Griffin Campbell, Scott Paulson, Eric Bartlett, Steven Schick
- Jane Rigler, Chris Chafe, Paul Dresher Ensemble, The, Terry Longshore, Mark Applebaum, Ivan Manzanilla, Steven Schick
- Hideko Kawamoto, Jose Halac, Mark Applebaum, Christina Agamanolis, Thomas Gerwin, Timothy Oesau, Mario Verandi, Mike Frengel
Biography
Mark Applebaum is an American pianist, composer, and instrument designer. His activities cover four widely different fields: contemporary acoustic composition, electro-acoustic composition, sound sculpture, and jazz. As a composer, Applebaum has had works commissioned and performed by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, the Paul Dresher Ensemble, and Zeitgeist. The pièce de résistance is the "Janus Cycle" (1992 to 1996, still unrecorded). Other than instrumental music, he also writes for fixed support and The Janus ReMixes: Exercises in Auto-Plundering (1999, Innova) remains his most ambitious work in that particular field. As an extension of his electro-acoustic activities, Applebaum also devises percussion instruments he calls "mousetraps" out of junk and hardware. They represent a hybrid of Hugh Davies and Tom Nunn's contraptions and can be heard on Mousetrap Music (1996, Innova). Finally, he is also an active jazz pianist with the Mark Applebaum Trio and the Applebaum Jazz Piano Duo (with his father Robert). Mark Applebaum was born in 1967 in Chicago, IL. His father, a high school teacher, has always kept a sideline as a jazz pianist and the love for the instrument fostered early in the child. Mark took his first lessons at age seven and after the inevitable high school rock bands, he went to Carleton College and to the University of California at San Diego, where he obtained his M.A. and his Ph.D. in music composition (1996). His principal teachers were Brian Ferneyhough, Joji Yuasa, and Rand Steiger. He also studied with Roger Reynolds. Since the completion of his Ph.D., he taught a year at Carleton College before moving to Mississippi State University (1997 to 2000) and Stanford University, where he is an assistant professor. Applebaum began building instruments in 1990 and this activity was the first to be documented. In 1994, he received the jazz prize of the Southern California Jazz Society. The duo with his father came in the late '90s. Their first CD, The Apple Doesn't Fall Far From the Tree, was released in early 2002. ~ François Couture