Mark Sterbank is Associate Professor of Jazz Studies and Saxophone at Charleston Southern University where he directs the jazz ensembles and teaches saxophone, music appreciation, jazz appreciation, jazz theory, advanced music skills for music therapy, woodwind techniques and performance class. He holds the Bachelor of Music degree from the Eastman School of Music where he received the highest award for musicians, the Performer’s Certificate. He also holds the Master of Music degree from the University of New Orleans where he also studied with pianist Ellis Marsalis under a jazz study grant from the National Endowment of the Arts.

A versatile performer, Professor Sterbank is well known in the Charleston area as a jazz saxophonist and performs regularly with the Quentin Baxter Quintet, the Charlton Singleton Quintet, and as lead tenor saxophonist and arranger with the Charleston Jazz Orchestra. He also performs as tenor saxophonist in the South Carolina Jazz Masterworks Ensemble.

Professor Sterbank also performs with the Charleston, Savannah and Hilton Head Symphony Orchestras. In 2018 he performed as featured soloist with the Charleston Southern University Wind Ensemble in Carnegie Hall. His performance credits also include a national tour with the Harry Connick, Jr. Orchestra, and performances with Rene Marie, Rodney Jordan, the John Brown Big Band, Patrick Davis and his Midnight Choir, and the Darius Rucker Big Band among many others. His CD of originals, Dayspring, was featured on the program “Real Jazz” on Sirius satellite radio. He also has two CDs of jazz hymns and spirituals and has presented an annual concert featuring those arrangements at CSU and in Charleston since 2005. A native of Cleveland, Ohio, Mark comes to Charleston by way of New York City where he spent four years working in music ministry at Times Square Church.

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