mark moultrup

Mark Moultrup is a keyboardist, vocalist, composer, arranger, and educator originally from Detroit and after living in Chicago, now resides in St Petersburg, FL.

His 6 CD releases have been heard on NPR and were reviewed by Jazz Times, All About Jazz, Chicago Jazz Magazine, and many others.

He produces his own CDs and has written arrangements for a variety of ensembles from trio to big band, and vocal.

He has been active in schools, teaching, arranging, conducting music clinics and performing.

Mark has been a full-time working musician for his adult life. Venues include work in jazz clubs, festivals, musical theater, concert stages, churches, studios, dance clubs, private and corporate functions, and has performed throughout the United States, as well as Europe, South and Central America, and the Carribean.

He has performed at the Detroit International Jazz Festival 11 times, including 4 appearances with his own group.

Chicago performance venues include The Green Mill, Andy’s Jazz Club, Taste of Chicago, The Chicago Jazz Festival, The Jazz Showcase, The Art Institute of Chicago, Sullivans, Fitzgeralds, The Black Ensemble Theater, Eddie V's.

Mark received a Creative Fellowship Grant from the Palladium of St Petersburg College in 2023. It allowed him to finish work on numerous big band compositions and arrangements. They were performed by the EXPLORATION: JAZZ Big Band  at the Palladium Theater, Hough Hall in May 2025. The recording and video will be released in 2026.

In Florida Mr Moultrup was featured soloist for La La Land in Concert with a 60 piece orchestra at the Dr Phillips Center for the Performing Arts in Orlando, and at the Mahaffey Theater in St. Petersburg. He also performed with The Florida Orchestra Pops for their Women Rock Shows.

Mark Moultrup Music - the Quintet performs yearly for the Jazz Club of Sarasota Jazz at 2 Concert Series, and at the The Palladium - Side Door. Other venues include 15 South, Eddie Vs Tampa, Avila Golf & Country Club,  The Independent, Ruby’s Elixir, Pia's Veranda and several guest appearances with the Tomkats Jazz Orchestra as pianist, vocalist, and featured arranger.

In 2017, work began on a duo CD with bassist John Lamb. John was a member of the Duke Ellington Band for many years in the 60's, and worked with many well known artists of the day. The CD “Stories” was released in 2023.

Mark studied jazz piano, theory and arranging at Oakland University where he had the privilege to study with Herbie Williams, a trumpet artist who had worked with Charlie Parker, and whose students had included Stevie Wonder and other Motown artists.

He studied piano privately with Harold McKinney.

Mark also studied jazz piano, theory and arranging at Wayne State University where he was again privileged by being able to study with Matt Michaels, a pianist and arranger who arranged Barbara Streisand's first album. 

In December 2016, he received a masters' certificate - Master Orchestration for Film and TV, from Berklee College of Music online for which he received an academic scholarship.

Mark has shared the stage and or recorded with a diverse array of artists including: Smokie Robinson, Bobby Vinton, Mike Stern, Marcus Belgrave, Eddie Kendricks, David Ruffin, & Dennis Edwards (Temptations induction to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Concert), Rodney Whitaker, Paul Keller, Larry Smith, Kid Rock, Heather Headly, Regina Carter, Kris Peterson, Leslie Gore, Johnny Trudell, Frank Isola, John Lamb, and many others.