Location: Village Members Home in Lincoln Park

Members & Guests: $18 (Click here to purchase)

Join the Village for hors d’oeuvres, wine, and a  live performance by Pianist/ Vocalist Mark Burnell. Hosted by Village Board Member Gail Moss at her home, the evening is certain to be an event to remember!

Mark Burnell – Pianist/Vocalist

Hailed by the Chicago Tribune as “silky smooth and highly polished” and New York’s Cabaret Hotline as “one of the most talented pianists and arrangers I’ve seen,” Mark Burnell has worked with Dave Frishberg, Richie Cole, Louie Bellson, Connie Francis, Howie Mandel, Ward Swingle, Laurel Masse, Laura San Giacomo, Rob Marshall, Blair Underwood and Seth Meyers. Mark’s overseas tours have taken him to Paris, Amsterdam, Bern, Zurich, Geneva, Lausanne, Freiburg, St. Croix and Panama. In 2009 and 2010, he was an instructor at the International Cabaret Conference at Yale. Mark also taught jazz at Northwestern and Roosevelt Universities, and trained vocalists for 10 years at Carnegie Mellon University, where he received his MFA and BFA, and also directed the CMU Jazz Choir. One of Chicago’s most in demand pianists/music directors, he leads a jazz trio on Saturdays at the Tortoise Supper Club. In addition to the recordings THIS COULD BE THE START OF SOMETHING BIG, BLUES IN THE NIGHT, SUMMER DAYS & DREAMY NIGHTS, TWO FOR THE ROAD and LITTLE THINGS WE DO TOGETHER with his vocalist wife Anne Burnell, Mark has four solo recordings: CHRISTMAS PIANO, a fresh instrumental jazz treatment of holiday music, GOSPEL PIANO from his 25 years at Gorham United Methodist Church, AQUACADENCE, and RIPPLE RHYTHM.