Mark Hardy

Teaching piano, guitar, and composition to private students

Private Instrumental Teacher at Access Contemporary Music (2015-07 – Present)

• Teaching piano, guitar, and composition to private students

Adjunct Faculty at Art Institute of Illinois Schaumburg and Chicago (2014-07 – 2015-03)

• Teaching Fundamentals of Sound, Physics of Sound for Recording Engineers, Sound Design, and Location Recording for Film and Video

Independent Contractor at Media Recall by Deluxe (2011-10 – 2015-12)

• Archiving, Video capture, recording and quality control of video digital transfer in Final Cut Pro, Digital Rapids and other software, tape cataloging, deck and tape maintenance across numerous formats (including one-inch, Beta, and other analog formats)
• Office and logistics including shipping, data server maintenance, captioning and video segment logging

Private Instrumental Teacher at Elite Dance and Music (2009-09 – 2010-04)

• Teaching piano and guitar to private students

Vice President, Composer and Producer at K-rAd MusiK (1996-10 – 2009-03)

Digital recording, editing and composition of music for performances, record releases and performances for companies such as Nike, VH1, Nicktoons, Mr. Sub, Burton Snowboards, General Motors, Hewlett Packard and Sears

Professor of Music at Malcolm X College- City Colleges of Chicago (2004-08 – 2009-05)

• Instruction of college students in Fundamentals of Music Theory, 15th Century Counterpoint, Introduction to Music, Perspectives in Jazz, Class Piano 1, Class Piano 2, Chorus, Humanities and Non-Western Humanities
• Establishment of music program, development of the Jazz Performance Film Series, development of the Centre for Humanities and Performing Arts, Communications and Fine Arts Faculty Search
• Writer of the Criterion Four chapter for the Self-Study for HLC Accreditation
• Music Program set-up and maintenance

Adjunct Instructor at College of DuPage (2002-04 – 2003-12)

• Instruction of college students in Technomusicology I, Technomusicology II, History of American Music, Music Appreciation
• Recording Studio set-up and maintenance

Video Editor and Transcription at Video Monitoring Services of America (2001-02 – 2001-09)

• Video Editor (AVID and digital video editing) and Data Processing and Database Maintenance for news agencies and corporations

Instructor at Birch Creek Center for Young Musicians (1999-06 – 1999-06)

• Instruction of high school students in Music Theory and Composition

Composer at Click Entertainment/Sierra (1999-02 – 2000-08)

• Musical Score for RPG Game "Throne of Darkness"

Instructor at Suzuki School for Young Musicians (1997-03 – 1997-03)

• Instruction of students in Music Theory and Composition

Bachelor of Fine Arts in Music Composition – Carnegie Mellon University (1993-06)

Masters of Music in Music Composition – Northwestern University (1997-06)