Mark Harvey, Senior Lecturer in Music, Ph.D., Boston University, is a trumpeter, composer, arranger, and founder/music director of the Aardvark Jazz Orchestra. Commissions include those from the Meet the Composer/Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Commissioning Program, the Organization of American Kodaly Educators, the 15th Annual John Coltrane Memorial Concert, and the MIT Wind Ensemble. Commissions from the MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble have included compositions written for and premiered by Joe Lovano and Steve Turre.
Harvey has appeared with Aardvark and jazz luminaries Geri Allen, Steven Bernstein, Jaki Byard, Jay Clayton, Kenny Dorham, Gil Evans, Jimmy Giuffre, Vinny Golia, Sheila Jordan, Frank London, Howard McGhee, Rajesh Mehta, Claudio Roditi, and Walter Thompson in venues such as Fenway Park, the Berklee Performance Center, the Hatch Shell, the Museum of Fine Arts, the Boston Globe Jazz & Blues Festival, the Rockport Chamber Music Festival, Symphony Hall with the Boston Pops, the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival/New Music Series, the Festival of New Trumpet Music [FONT], the Knitting Factory, Village Gate, and Public Theater (all in NYC), the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., the Southern California Institute of Architecture, Santa Monica, CA, the Baja State Theater, Mexico, and the Berlin Jazz Festival, Germany.