Mark Wardlaw

Mark Wardlaw is a clarinetist in the Santa Rosa Symphony and a jazz saxophonist. He conducts the Symphonic Band and two orchestras at Santa Rosa High School and is the jazz band director at Santa Rosa Junior College.

Articles by this Author

It's All in the Feet - Review
October 7, 2008

It’s a rare occurrence when a symphony orchestra devotes an entire half of a subscription concert to music that wasn’t intended for a concert hall. On Sunday night Music Director Alasdair Neale and the Marin Symphony did just that, opening their 56th season with the innovative Quartet San Francisco and their tribute to the tango.
This concert had something for everyone, including a pair of internationally acclaimed dancers, a bandoneon soloist, and a first half that featured chestnuts by Rimsky-Korsakov and Ravel.

Earnest Eclecticism - Review
April 1, 2008

If eclecticism is your thing, San Francisco's Mission Dance Theater was the place to be on Sunday for the first annual Switchboard Music Festival. Billed as "eight hours of nonstop, genre-defying music by the Bay Area's most innovative artists," it was founded to bring together people who are "creating new sounds that defy description."
The informality of Dance Theater's black box provided a suitable environment, as well as a familiar one for those of us who have performed on these types of adventurous "new music" forays.

Fierce Winds - Review
February 5, 2008

Chamber Music is alive and well in Mill Valley — even on Super Bowl Sunday. Even during the Super Bowl. Improbable as this may seem, a near-capacity audience eschewed the day’s customary revelries in favor of a highly polished and at times wildly exhilarating performance by the superb Zephyros Winds.

Zephryos Winds

Mother Russia Visits Vallejo - Review
September 25, 2007

Pianist Jon Nakamatsu sparkled, and some of the Bay Area’s top freelance players also were in fine form as the Vallejo Symphony Orchestra opened its 2007-2008 season.