Marc Irwin is a pianist, composer, arranger, and recording artist, using his diverse talents as a musician within the fields of contemporary, jazz, classical, theater, and world music. A native New Yorker, Marc’s performing credits include twenty years as a pianist and conductor for Broadway theatre, five years as a sound designer and keyboardist with Harry Belafonte and ten years as an assistant conductor at the Kennedy Center for the Performing arts in Washington, D.C. Marc’s composing credits include scores for Yazmina Reza’s “Art”, David Kramer’s “The Normal Heart”, Tennessee William’s “The Glass Menagerie” and William Shakespeare’s “A Comedy Of Errors. Marc received a Doctorate in Music Composition from the Peabody Institute, Johns Hopkins University, in 2000. Marc’s portfolio includes string quartets, woodwind and brass ensembles, orchestral works, over thirty arrangements for the Peabody Children’s Chorus, and over fifty jazz compositions. Marc has released six jazz albums with labels that include Iris Records and Arabesque Recordings. Marc currently leads a New York based jazz quintet, MIQ, and performs, produces, records and teaches out of his home studio here in Baltimore, Maryland and New York.