A jazz musician and composer of wide experience, Mark Ingleby has studied and played with some of the leading figures in both the Kansas City jazz blues tradition and the avant-garde. While studying composition for his MA at the world-renowned contemporary music department of the University of California, San Diego; (where his teachers included Bob Erickson, Roger Reynolds, Keith Humble, Jimmy Cheatham, Cecil Lytle and Joji Yuasa) he worked as a performer with Anthony Braxton, Henri Pousseur and several choreographers, as well as playing and writing for his own jazz and gospel-jazz groups (The Mark Ingleby Trio and The Jazz Art Directive respectively) in London and San Diego from the 1980's to the 2000's.
The latter features him on piano, keyboards and alto-saxophone, but he also undertakes function work from time to time, as well as continuing to play regularly in his local church band.
Mark's work as a piano and keyboard teacher in six Bromley schools including Beaverwood School, Bishop Justus School, Crofton Junior School and Bullers Wood School is under-pinned by his experience of also playing and recording jazz in larger jazz-gospel projects like Canopy Music's ground-breaking national ‘Jazz In The Sanctuary - Spirit of the Nation’ project (that he also co-produced), which brought together jazz and gospel performers across the UK in a unique collaborative recording. Drawing on this experience, Mark wrote a children’s musical based on the life and times of Ignatius Sancho, who was Britain’s first known black composer which went on to be premiered with three different schools in Greenwich, London. He went on to lecture at Hammersmith and West London College, where he designed and nationalised a short BTEC course on collaboration skills for dancers and musicians – Creating Music & Dance Together - which is still on offer in the Tower Hamlets Idea Store, where Mark continues to teach piano classes.
The latter features him on piano, keyboards and alto-saxophone, but he also undertakes function work from time to time, as well as continuing to play regularly in his local church band.
Mark's work as a piano and keyboard teacher in six Bromley schools including Beaverwood School, Bishop Justus School, Crofton Junior School and Bullers Wood School is under-pinned by his experience of also playing and recording jazz in larger jazz-gospel projects like Canopy Music's ground-breaking national ‘Jazz In The Sanctuary - Spirit of the Nation’ project (that he also co-produced), which brought together jazz and gospel performers across the UK in a unique collaborative recording. Drawing on this experience, Mark wrote a children’s musical based on the life and times of Ignatius Sancho, who was Britain’s first known black composer which went on to be premiered with three different schools in Greenwich, London. He went on to lecture at Hammersmith and West London College, where he designed and nationalised a short BTEC course on collaboration skills for dancers and musicians – Creating Music & Dance Together - which is still on offer in the Tower Hamlets Idea Store, where Mark continues to teach piano classes.