Mark Valenti

Chicago-area pianist Mark Valenti plays live from Buck Studio.

Mark is a former Professor of Music at the University of the Arts in Philadelelphia. He received his Master of Music from Northwestern University, Bachelor of Music from the Philadelphia Musical Academy and has studied with such notable teachers as Benjamin Whitten, Zoltan Kocsis and Mary Sauer. He has also done extensive work in the jazz field including performances with Gregory Hines, Frank Foster and Al Grey and has appeared on television with Joe Sudler’s Swing Machine and singer/actor Christopher Durham.

He will play movements from Debussy’s Estampes (“Pagodas”, “Evening in Grenada”, and “Gardens in the Rain”) and three movements from Le Printemps by Darius Milhaud.