Marc Mommaas - Global Motion

Saxophonist Marc Mommaas comes from an artistic background. His mother is an opera singer/pianist and his father a well known painter in the Dutch art scene.
While visiting New York he studied with well known musicians David Liebman, Garry Dial and Dick Oatts. He returned to Holland where he continued to work as a free-lance musician. After receiving two grants he moved to New York where he continued his musical development by participating in master classes and studying composition and piano with Garry Dial.
Marc received a full scholarship from the Manhattan School of Music where he pursued his masters in Jazz Pertformance and upon graduating received the 'William H. Borden Award', given to one student out of the graduating class for outstanding schievements. He also participated in the Lake Placid Seminar and the Aspen Snowmass Jazz Sessions for which he received full scholarships. Highlights within the last year are a performance at Carnegie Hall with the MSM Jazz Orchestra and a NYU performance at Lincoln Center.
He will be playing with his band 'Global Motion' in Europe in the summer and November 2003 promoting his new release on Sunny Side Records; 'Global Motion'.