Mark Buselli is Director of Jazz Studies at Ball State University. Awards include: 2010-11 BSU College of Fine Arts Dean’s Creative Arts Award, 2004 Teacher of the Year at Butler University, and induction into the Indianapolis Jazz Hall of Fame in 2017. Buselli has released ten recordings and published over fifty arrangements for big bands, brass ensemble, and piano/trumpet. Mr. Buselli graduated from Berklee School of music in Boston and received his MM in Jazz studies and a Performers Certificate from Indiana University. The late David Baker personally picked the Buselli/Wallarab Jazz Orchestra to record his music. Buselli currently serves as Education Director of the Buselli/Wallarab Jazz Orchestra in Indianapolis where he has created numerous educational opportunities for over 50 thousand students with their relationship to Arts For Learning of Indiana.