Hannah Marks

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Hannah Marks is a bassist, bandleader, composer and educator living in New York City. As a bandleader she has performed at several major festivals including the Detroit Jazz Festival, Hyde Park Jazz Festival, Iowa City Jazz Festival, and Indy Jazz Festival. She currently the leader of Hannah Marks: Outsider, Outlier, a genre-defying, lyric-based project as well as the Hannah Marks Quartet. She is a frequent sideman with Geoffrey Keezer, Ingrid Jensen, Kalia Vandever, Matt Wilson, Ted Nash, Morgan Guerin, and Marcus Printup, and has performed at heralded NYC venues like Birdland Jazz Club, The 55 Bar, The Stone, and The Jazz Gallery. Her former project, Heartland Trio, released their debut album in November 2018. Marks is a 2021 alumnus of the Woodshed Network, a 2019 alumnus of Betty Carter Jazz Ahead, a 2018 alumnus of the Banff International Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music, and a 2014 alumnus of the Brubeck Summer Jazz Colony. She is on faculty at The Spence School and runs her own private lesson studio. In 2022, Marks joined the Stanford Jazz Workshop as a Mentor Fellow.