Origin Artist

Mark is a versatile drummer/percussionist with extensive experience in many different idioms from pop-rock to big band to jazz to orchestral settings.

He has performed with many national jazz artists including Larry Coryell, Freddie Hubbard, Diane Schuur, Mose Allison, Charlie Byrd and Eartha Kitt. He is currently performing and recording with the Jovino Santos Neto quartet, Sonando, and The Nick Manson trio.

In the classical field, Mark has performed with the Honolulu, Spokane and Walla Walla Symphony Orchestras. Mark is a founding member of the professional percussion ensemble "Happy Hammers". This group performs percussion music of various ethnic influences including steel drums of Trinidad, African drumming of the Ewe and Yoruba tribes, Afro-Cuban drumming, Brazilian samba and American jazz on mallet keyboard instruments.

Mark earned a Bachelor of Music degree at Eastern Washington University. He did undergraduate and graduate work in ethnomusicology at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu which included field study of gamelan in Java. He has taught privately since 1973 and has been on the faculties of Gonzaga University in Spokane, Spokane Falls Community College, Highline Community College and Olympic College, Bremerton.

RECORDINGS FEATURING Mark Ivester

Dmitri Matheny

Cascadia

Origin 82849

Ben Black

Mystery & Wonder

Origin 82835

Greta Matassa

Portrait

Origin 82782

Gene Argel

Luminescent

Origin 82682

Clipper Anderson

Ballad of the Sad Young Men

Origin 82639

Clipper Anderson

The Road Home

Origin 82605

Chuck Deardorf

Transparence

Origin 82587

Greta Matassa | Clipper Anderson

And to All a Good Night

Origin 82578

Randy Halberstadt

Flash Point

Origin 82571

Greta Matassa

The Smiling Hour

Origin 82484

Greta Matassa

Favorites From A Long Walk

Origin 82452

Mimi Fox with Greta Matassa

Two For The Road

Origin 82411

Mimi Fox with Greta Matassa

Two For The Road DVD

Origin 82409

Greta Matassa

All This And Heaven Too

Origin 82393

Mai-Liis

Mai-Liis On Life

OA2 Records 22188

Gail Pettis

Here in the Moment

OA2 Records 22059

Gail Pettis

May I Come In?

OA2 Records 22038