Mark Burgess

BIO

Mark Burgess has been a student of the guitar for the last

35 years. He started playing when he was 9 years old. At 12 his

family moved to New Jersey where he began studying in New

York City at the American Institute for Guitar with David Zeigler,

a student of Andres Segovia.

As a teenager, Mark continued to develop his musical skills

as a guitarist and as a singer by directing the choir in his father’s

church as well as singing in various vocal ensembles.

After high school Mark attended The Mason Gross School of

the Arts at Rutgers University as a jazz performance major where

he studied under jazz luminaries Ted Dunbar and Kenney Barron,

as well as a semester with Tonight Show bandleader Kevin

Eubanks.

For the past 25 years he has participated in numerous

Guitar Craft courses in North America and Europe, directed by

rock icon Robert Fripp.

He has worked with/played for  Tom Scott, JJ Jackson, Guitar Shorty

and Don Rickles.



He is also an accomplished bassist and has extensive

orchestra pit as well as stage experience. Some of the credits

include:

“The Pump Boys and The Dinettes”

(Role of Jackson, sang and played guitar)

“Crazy” (w/Sally Struthers)

Played bass onstage

“Buddy”

(Role of Niki Sullivan, sang, played guitar and

mandolin,)

Played in the pit for “Annie” “Seven Brides for Seven

Brothers” “Carousel” “Once Upon a Mattress” “Oliver” “The King

and I” “Jesus Christ Superstar” “Godspell” and more

He has worked as a professional music engraver and book

designer for Warner Brothers Publications and Alfred Music

Publishing, Inc.

He has published two books with Alfred Publishing and is working on his third.