Mark Walker is a Grammy/Latin Grammy Award-winning drummer, a Grammy Award-nominated composer, and a renowned author and educator originally from Chicago. He is one of the only American drummers equally at home with authentic South American and Caribbean rhythms, straight-ahead jazz, rock, funk and studio drumming. Since 1989, he has performed around the world, touring extensively and/or recording with the group Oregon (with Ralph Towner), Paquito D’Rivera, Lyle Mays, Michel Camilo, Cesar Camargo Mariano, Randy Brecker, Steve Khan, Mike Mainieri, Andy Narell, Eliane Elias, the NDR big band, the WDR big band, the HR big band, Arturo Sandoval and the Caribbean Jazz Project. He released his critically acclaimed debut album in 2019 entitled “You Get What You Give,” featuring Paquito D’Rivera, Alain Mallet, Oscar Stagnaro and many others.

Mark Walker's students have played professionally with such artists as Chucho Valdes, Beyonce, Esperanza Spalding, Sting, Arturo Sandoval, Julian Lage, Becca Stevens and the musicals "In The Heights," "Chicago" and "The Last Ship."