Mark Mazullo is Professor of Music at Macalester College in St. Paul, MN, where he has been teaching piano and courses in music history for nearly twenty years. He is the author of the book “Shostakovich’s Preludes and Fugues: contexts, style, performance”. A pianist who appears frequently in solo, chamber, and concerto settings, he has performed concertos by Beethoven, Shostakovich, and Prokofiev with the Minnesota Philharmonic, the Civic Orchestra of Minneapolis, and the St. Paul Civic Symphony. The recipient of Macalester College’s 2009 Excellence in Teaching Award, Mazullo is known for his broad range of courses, including surveys of Western art music and the seminars Music and Freedom, Late Beethoven, and Musical Fictions.