Join us for a beautiful spring evening of jazz at Fat Hill! Dr. Mark Lawson is on piano, John Sjolinder is on bass, and Antonio Lopes will be on drums. No admission fee.

Bonus!!! The lobster truck will be parked outside during this show. For more info click here.

About Dr. Lawson:

Mark Lawson was born in Mason City, Iowa. After a year at the Juilliard School, Mark was a student of George Katz at Drake University, Gary Graffman at the Manhattan School of Music, and Nelita True at the University of Maryland and the Eastman School of Music. After receiving his Doctorate from the Eastman School of Music, Mark moved to New York City, where he worked as a freelance pianist for three years before joining the Yale Opera as a pianist and coach. While at Yale, Mark learned German, and in 1997 he joined the music staff at the Aalto Theater in Essen, Germany. Two years later he auditioned in Munich at the Bavarian State Opera for Zubin Mehta, and from 1999 until 2017 was on the music staff there. In those eighteen years, he worked with all of the most famous singers in the world and many of the most famous conductors. In 2017 Mark left the Bavarian State Opera to have more time for freelance projects, and since then has divided his time between the Stopera in Amsterdam, the Teatro Real in Madrid, where he has a part time contract, and yearly productions at the Bavarian State Opera. In addition, he has worked regularly with the Young Singers Group at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow. Besides traveling with the Bavarian State Opera to Tokyo and Hong Kong, Mark has also worked at the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden, the Paris Opera, The New Israeli Opera, the Landestheater Salzburg, the National Theater in Prague, the Salzburg Festival, the Glyndbourne Festival, and the Bayreuth Festival.