MARK ZAKI

BAROQUE VIOLA

Mark Zaki’s work ranges from historically-informed performance to electroacoustic music, intermedia composition, and film music. He received awards from the International Society of Contemporary Music, Musica Nova (Prague), and a Mellon Fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania. He was a visiting professor at the University of Sheffield as a Fulbright Scholar Awardee. He is a member of the American Classical Orchestra and has performed on period instruments with Concert Royal, Tempesta di Mare, Apollo’s Fire, and La Fiocco, and played modern violin with the New Jersey Symphony, Brooklyn Philharmonic, and New Haven Symphony. As Professor of Music at Rutgers University-Camden he received the Rutgers University Board of Trustees Research Fellowship for Scholarly Excellence-Most Distinguished Faculty Award in 2013 and 2017, and was a Rutgers Camden Faculty of Arts and Sciences Research Fellow. Mark earned the Ph.D. in composition from Princeton University and D.M.A. from Rutgers University