She is involved in music education, non-profit work, and community outreach across the Midwest and East Coast, and currently works at Manhattan School of Music doing performance operations for the jazz department. Hannah is passionate about sharing her love of music with a range of communities. She was selected for the Dave Brubeck Colony in 2014 she had other eye-opening experiences from attending the Centrum Jazz Workshop, the Jamey Aebersold Jazz Workshop, the University of Northern Iowa Jazz Camp, and the Simpson Jazz Camp in high school. By the time she graduated high school, she played regularly with the Max Wellman Quartet, the Plymouth Church Saturday Night Band, and the Dave Bohl Quartet.
She hails from Des Moines, IA, where she got her start playing in monthly Des Moines Community Jazz Center jam sessions and attending Synergy Jazz Foundation Workshops. She is a former member of the IU Soul Revue and was the assistant principal bassist in the Spring 2018 production of West Side Story. She was a member of IU’s top jazz group, the Plummer Jazz Quintet, led by Walter Smith. Hannah is an alumnus of Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music, where she studied with Walter Smith, Todd Coolman, Kurt Muroki, and Jeremy Allen. Marks is currently an artist-in-residence at Old Greenwich Presbyterian Church in New Jersey and a curator for Green Lung Studio in Brooklyn. She is on faculty at The Spence School and runs her own private lesson studio. 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. Her former project, Heartland Trio, released their debut album in November 2018.
She is a frequent sideman with Geoffrey Keezer, Ingrid Jensen, Kalia Vandever, Matt Wilson, Ted Nash, Morgan Guerin, and Marcus Printup. Marks plays in many bands including Tide Pools, with alto saxophonist Alfredo Colon and drummer Connor Parks, as well as for singer-songwriters Elora and Jack Broza. Her current band, Hannah Marks: Outsider, Outlier, is a genre-defying, lyric-based project. A Candid Interview with Josh Roseman - Iowa City Jazz Festival 2011. 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. Steve Grismore is a true legend of the Iowa jazz scene, having co-founded the Iowa City Jazz Festival, and made a name for himself as a well-respected performer and educator in the region. Hannah Marks is a bassist, bandleader, composer, and educator living in New York City.
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