![]() ![]() The Mark Flugge Trio is the house rhythm section for the Chamber Jazz Series, and they play every Friday night at the Hyde Park steakhouse, where they’ve been a fixture since 2000. His recent composition “Chorale and Fantasy” for woodwind sextet was premiered at Capital University by QuintEssential Winds in March 2012. In 2011 Flugge performed his composition "Waltz Into Madness" with flutist Lisa Jelle at the National Flute Association annual convention in Charlotte, North Carolina. The Ohio Arts Council has awarded Flugge on three separate occasions for pieces he composed for his group “No Pedestrians”. He has also recorded four CDs with Columbus singer Dick Mackey, and is the featured soloist on the Famous Jazz Orchestra CD “Sight Readin’ Baby”. "Waltz Into Madness" a new CD from flutist Lisa Jelle, features Mark on piano, plus several of his compositions and arrangements. As a leader, Flugge has recorded three CDs: “In Love, In Blue” on solo piano, “February’s Promise” (jazz quintet original compositions), and “Familiarity”, which also features Gene Bertoncini and Michael Moore. ![]() Founder of the Chamber Jazz Series at the Columbus Music Hall in 2006, Mark continues to program, produce, and perform this series at the Columbus Museum of Art. Another Firehouse Jazz Concert Flugge produced, “A Tribute to Horace Silver”, was named a “Best Event of 2005” by the Columbus Dispatch, who also included his “Tribute To Bill Evans” concert with singer Dick Mackey as one of 2007’s most memorable concerts. In 2005 Flugge transcribed Thelonious Monk’s “Town Hall Concert” recording, and subsequently led performances of the transcribed album from the piano for the Firehouse Jazz Series, and also at the University of Illinois’ Summer Jazz Festival. In that same year, Flugge collaborated with Ronald Jenkins, musical director at First Community Church, on Sacred Jazz and Spirituals, a service and CD featuring Flugge’s arrangements of standard liturgical music. He presented the solo lecture- recital “From Jelly Roll to Jarrett, a Jazz Piano History” at the King Arts Complex in 2008. He was the musical director for the "Birth of the Cool" with the Columbus Jazz Orchestra in May, 2011, and was the bandleader for the Opera Columbus production of Kurt Weill's "Berlin to Broadway" in September, 2010. ![]() Recent soloist appearances include performing “Rhapsody in Blue” with the Newark-Granville Symphony Orchestra (2011), the Capital/Bexley Orchestra (2009), the Columbus Symphony Orchestra (20), and the Westerville Symphony (2004). Mark Flugge is well-known as a pianist, composer, educator, and bandleader in the Central Ohio area and beyond. ![]()
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