MARK TATUM
Mark Tatum is the assistant principal double bassist with the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra and a section bassist with the Santa Fe Opera. In addition, he teaches double bass and jazz history at the University of New Mexico and is a visiting faculty member at Fort Lewis College. Tatum has performed with Musicisti Americani in Rome, Italy as well as with many regional orchestras including the Santa Fe Symphony, Colorado Springs Symphony Orchestra, Tucson Symphony Orchestra and the El Paso Symphony Orchestra. He has also appeared with the Moab Music Festival, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Cascade Festival of Music in Bend, Oregon, Flagstaff Festival of the Arts, the Rocky Mountain Opera Festival in Colorado Springs, and the Four Corners Opera in Durango. As a jazz musician Tatum has performed with many notable figures such as Charlie Rouse, Charles McPherson, Tommy Newsome, Richie Cole, Matt Catingub, Gary Willis, Eddie Daniels, Butch Miles, John Lewis, Rosemary Clooney, Herbie Mann and Wynton Marsalis. In recent years he has been involved in recording projects with Phil Smith and Joe Alessi from the New York Philharmonic and has participated in a project to record all of the music of Silvestre Revueltas. Tatum holds a Bachelor of Music degree in performance from Arizona State University and a Masters of Music from the University of Arizona.
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