MARK JANELLO

Core Studies

Peabody Institute

Mark Janello, composer, harpsichordist, and music theorist, is a professor of music theory at the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University, where he teaches counterpoint, Partimento, and historical improvisation.

He has degrees in music composition and theory from Harvard, Duke, and the University of Michigan, where he studied with Ivan Tcherepnin, Stephen Jaffe, William Albright, and Andrew Mead. As a harpsichordist, he studied with Frances Fitch and Edward Parmentier, and has played continuo with the Baltimore Symphony, the Washington Bach Sinfonia, and the PostClassical Ensemble. Dr. Janello is especially interested in the art of improvisation, whose skills reviewers have called “an astonishing and tasteful display” and "remarkably inventive".

He has been commissioned by the Aliénor Foundation, Mallarmé Chamber Players, the Cima Ensemble, and Marina Piccinini. Prior to Peabody, he taught at McGill University in Montréal.