Mark McCarron

New York-Canadian guitarist/composer/arranger Mark McCarron has worked with such jazz notables as Ed
Bickert and Don Thompson, organist Jack McDuff, and the Mingus Five Guitar Band. He has performed on
Canadian Radio and Television and at all of the major Canadian jazz festivals. Mark studied under jazz
guitarist John Abercrombie in New York under a Canada Council grant and at the BMI Jazz Composers
Workshop.
 
Mark's newest project is The Mark McCarron Quartet, a collaboration with pianist Lee Tomboulian, bassist Dominic Duval, Jr. and drummer Jonathan Mele.

A versatile artist, McCarron is much in demand in a wide range of genres and roles as both performer
and arranger. His jazz quartet, the McCarron Bros., has released three albums on Deep Tone Records:
Before All This (featuring Suzanne Mueller), Way Down in Brooklyn ,and No Moon Train. In addition, he has
released three albums of original songs with singer/co-writer Dave Rave: Another Side of Love, the Grammy-
nominated In the Blue of My Dreams - featuring Mark’s arrangements for voice, woodwind quartet, cello, and
jazz quartet, and Memphis Midnight. He has also produced albums for a variety of artists.
 
He has been a substitute performer in many of Broadway’s and Off-Broadway’s top shows, and the
touring companies of Rent and Wicked. In addition, he was a member of the band for the 2019 miniseries
Fosse/Verdon, and for Bob Anderson’s 2021 Sinatra tribute performance, One More for the Road at Carnegie
Hall.
 

Mark has a private guitar studio in Port Washington, NY. Previously, he was an instructor at the Long Island High School for the Arts for 16 years, teaching Jazz
ensemble, notation and arranging, and production for songwriters.