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Mark Anderson is retired from full time teaching at Foothill
College in Los Altos Hills, California, where he served as
Dean of the Fine Arts Division from 2009 - 2016,
Founder/Director of the Music Technology Program from 1997 -
2009, Chair of the Music Department and Director of Jazz
Studies from 1989 - 1997. Prior to joining the faculty at
Foothill in 1989, he was Director of Jazz Studies at Fresno
City College from 1987 - 1989, and Graduate Teaching Assistant
in Jazz Studies at the University of Denver, Lamont School of
Music from 1980 - 1983. After graduate school, he enjoyed a
career as a full time professional musician and booking agent
in Denver during the 80's, playing hundreds of recording
sessions and performing nightly with many of the greatest
musicians in the world such as Carl Fontana, Bobby Shew, Jack
Sheldon, Joe
Williams, George Shearing, Randy Brecker,
Clark Terry, James
Moody, Branford Marsalis, Frank Wess, Stanley Turrentine,
Plas
Johnson, Woody
Herman, Louie Bellson,
Billy
Eckstine, Glen
Campbell, Jimmy
Buffet,
The
Temptations, John Denver, Burt Bacharach, Dionne Warwick,
Lou Rawls, The Four Tops,
Rosemary Clooney, Tanya
Tucker, Charlie Pride, Kenny Rankin, and many others.