Music
Marschak also maintains an active schedule as a jazz pianist, and has performed with a variety of respected musicians at venues across California. Marschak’s debut album Likewise was heralded as “adventurous and well developed” by Lalo Schifrin. Steering clear of conventional formats, the album explores an array of genres, instrumentations, and textures, while maintaining a unique compositional sensibility. He is also featured as music director, composer, and pianist on the 2018 album Time Stops by vocalist Kalil Wilson.
In 2011, he co-founded Well Versed Productions, a music composition/production company with notable producer and drummer Miles Senzaki. Together, they have scored many projects, including several short films and three full-length feature films.
Marschak holds an MA in Composition from UCLA, where his primary teachers were Paul Chihara, James Newton, Ian Krouse, Mark Carlson, Roger Bourland, and David S. Lefkowitz. He also holds dual BA’s from UCLA in Composition and Ethnomusicology (Jazz Studies), where he taught and designed a yearlong music theory course at UCLA from 2012-2015. He is currently full time faculty at Las Positas College in Livermore, where he teaches composition, music theory, piano, jazz combos, and piano pedagogy.