Mark Hardy

Resident of Chicago, Illinois for more than twenty five years, Mark Hardy was born in Hazleton, Pennsylvania in 1971. He studied at Carnegie Mellon University with Nancy Galbraith, Lukas Foss, Leonardo Balada and Eduardo Alonso Crepo and at Northwestern University with Amnon Wolman, Jay Alan Yim and Alan Stout. His compositions have been played and broadcast all over the world by groups like Cuarteto Latinoamericano, Butchershop Quartet, Hara Quintet, and Soundings and at festivals such as Aspen Music Festival, BAMF, Produce, and the Canadian Flute Conference. Past commissions have been from Nike, MTV, VH1, Nicktoons, HP and GM. He is a continuing student of the sitar and North Indian Classical Music and has studied with Ronuji and Durgaji Majumdar, and Indrajit Banerjee. He has produced, written music for, performed and engineered recordings by Terry Callier, Irons, Euphone, Resinator, Chicago Scratch Orchestra, Articular Facet and his own solo work.