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Mark Zuckerman holds a Ph.D. in composition from Princeton University, and was a student of Milton Babbitt, David Epstein, J. K. Randall and Elie Yarden. He has taught composition, tonal and atonal theory, orchestration and computer music at Princeton and Columbia Universities, and published numerous scholarly articles and a book on listening to jazz, drawn from a popular jazz survey course he taught at Princeton and Columbia. Mr. Zuckerman also played saxophone in stage bands, clarinet, sax and keyboards in rock bands, washtub bass in bluegrass and jug bands, and has sung in several Yiddish choirs including Di Goldene Keyt, The Yiddish Chorale, which he founded and for which he was Composer-In-Residence. Zuckerman s music is published by Carl Fischer, Ludwig Music, E. C. Schirmer, Transcontinental Music, Mobart, the APNM and ACA. His catalog includes an extensive collection of choral music achieving a growing international reputation in English, Hebrew, and Yiddish (available on "Because," MSR Classics MS1146), with some 20 arrangements of Yiddish songs for a cappella mixed chorus, released as "The Year in Yiddish Song" on Centaur. He has also written instrumental music for virtuoso soloists as exemplified by pieces recorded by flutist James Winn for CRI and pianist Peter Vinograde for Phoenix USA as well as numerous chamber ensembles, string orchestra, full orchestra, concert band, and wind ensemble, including music recorded by the Rutgers University Wind Ensemble for Mark Masters. His chamber opera, "The Outlaw and the King," was developed in the Opera Workshop at Rutgers University. Mark Zuckerman received a 2004 Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. In addition to a residency at Temple University, the Momenta Quartet (Miranda Cuckson and Annaliesa Place, violins; Stephanie Griffin, viola; Joanne Lin, cello) has quickly gained a following in New York City after its debut concert at the Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture in Novemb