Unique music for heart, soul, and mind

"Zuckerman never runs out of ways to grab us by our lapels... [He] writes a piece so compelling ... that I want to listen to it again and again."

― Steve Schwartz, ClassicalNet CD Review

"Intriguing music of deceptive simplicity ... subtle, persuasive and ― quite simply ― beautiful."

― Glyn Pursglove, MusicWeb

"Highly accessible ... listeners are carefully guided through some very enjoyable musical metaphors ... quite moving."

― Mike D. Brownell, allmusic

"Jazzy shimmer ... used ... eloquently."

― Allan Kozinn, NY Times

"Other-worldly."

― Allan Kozinn, NY Times

Here you'll find...

including my Jewish music...

What's new...

Concerts & Appearances

	Three Yiddish Hanukkah arrangements featured on Miracle of Miracles, a new CD by Chicago A Cappella, Fall 2023.
	Civilization Cannot Go Back (from A Better World) premiered by Sharim v'Sharot, May 2023.
	Affirmation premiered by František Brikcius, December 2022. *See video.*
	Mankind Rises premiered by Andrew White, baritone, and the Frahm Lewis Piano Trio at the University of Nebreaska at Kearny, September 2021. *See video.*
	Coming in Thirds in pianist Jai Jeffryes' new CD, Amethyst, on Tangent Shores. See his newsletter or subscribe.
	The Outlaw and the King segment on NJN TV's State of the Arts. *See video.*

Awards &
Commissions

	Sinfonietta chosen as finalist in the 2022 Lowell Chamber Orchestra Call for Scores.
	Choir Credo Commission, Fall 2015.
	Choir Credo Commission, Summer 2012.
	Honorable mention, Pathways competition, January 2011.
	Choir Credo commission, Fall 2010.
	Winner, first annual Hal Campbell Composition Competition, Southern Utah University, February 2010.
	Selected for Schola Cantorum on Hudson PROJECT : ENCORE™, January 2010.
	Winner, Boston Metro Opera choral competition, January 2010.
	Renée B. Fisher commission, March 2009.
	Appointed Visiting Artist in the Department of Music, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, fall term 2008.
	Received grants from the G. R. Dodge and E. T. Cone Foundations to support the performance of The Outlaw and the King at Rutgers, 2008.
	Appointed Visiting Professor in the Department of Music, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, fall term 2006.
	Awarded commission through the American Music Center's Live Music for Dance grants (sponsored by the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation) for a new work performed by flutist Bart Feller for the Randy James Dance Works in a new dance, "2 Out of 200," premiered February 16, 2006 at the State Theatre, New Brunswick, NJ and performed at Danspace in New York City, March, 2006.
	Awarded New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship for 2004.

Recordings &
Publications

	New Music for Strings now available on MSR Classics.
	Raritonality now on CD.
	Mark Zuckerman Yiddish Choral Series now available from ECS Publishing.
	Because now available on MSR Classics.
	Renewal (trumpet and pipe organ) now available on CD.
	Festive Fanfare for brass quintet and *Shpatsír* for string orchestra now available from Ludwig Music.
	New Music for Wind Ensembles CD now available.
	*S'lichah* (organ solo) now available from Zimbel Press.
	Yiddish arrangements Dolye, Mayn rue-plats, *Di zun vet aruntergeyn* now available from Transcontinental Music.
	"Making Music Speak the Language: Challenges in Arranging Yiddish Songs for Chorus" published in the December 2003 issue of Koleinu, periodical of the American Conference of Cantors.
	The Year in Yiddish Song recorded by the Goldene Keyt Singers now available from Centaur Records.
	On the Edges recorded by pianist Peter Vinograde now available from Phoenix USA.
	Proverbs for Four at Fifty recorded by the Gregg Smith Singers now available from Living Artists.

This site was last updated 11/02/23