Nick Mandella

Mark Zaleski

Associate Professor
Affiliated Departments
Harmony and Jazz Composition
mzaleski@berklee.edu
Telephone
617-747-6188
Personal Websites
Artist website

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Career Highlights
  • Instruments include saxophone, clarinet, flute, double bass, and electric bass
  • Band leader for the Mark Zaleski Band and Mark and Glenn Zaleski
  • Band member in the Brighton Beat, the Omar Thomas Large Ensemble, Either/Orchestra, the John Allmark Jazz Orchestra, Beantown Swing Orchestra, Mark Cocheo Trio, and Brian Thomas/Alex Lee-Clark B3 Funk Big Band
  • Has performed with Ian Anderson and Jethro Tull, Christian McBride, Dave Brubeck, Rakalam Bob Moses, Cecil McBee, Jerry Bergonzi, Bruce Gertz, Matt Savage, John Tesh, Robin Eubanks, Justin Brown, and Joe Sanders
  • Recordings include The Mark Zaleski Band and Mark and Glenn Zaleski—Duet Suite
Education
  • Longy School of Music
    Massachusetts
    Master of Music (MM)
    Music
  • The New England Conservatory of Music
    Massachusetts
    Bachelor of Music (BM)
    Jazz Studies
In Their Own Words

"I try and make my class very much a listening and transcription-based class. Though I don't necessarily teach ear training, a lot of the things within harmony have to do with basically how to write lead sheets, and getting into the basics of composition." 

"I run my class in such a way that we spend most of our time playing music that I think applies to the material wthat we need to cover, and having students try their best to transcribe what's going on."

"Most of the time people are coming to music school to study because they have something to offer from day one that's really awesome. They just may not know how to label that, they may not know how to tell someone. If you're going to get together with a new bass player you just met from a different country or something like that, and you don't have an instrument in front of you to explain your composition to them, I want you to be able to scribble that down on a piece of paper and be able to understand it. The best thing that you can get out of music school is the ability to communicate with as many different types of musicans as possible."