Pianist, composer, and arranger Marc Stasio has been active in producing scores for hire, serving as jazz faculty, and performing abroad for over 40 years. His work appears on recordings and in performances with today’s top jazz and contemporary music artists. Stasio completed undergraduate studies in Jazz Arranging at Berklee College of Music and earned a Master of Music in Jazz Studies from Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts. As a professor of Jazz Studies at Rutgers, he specializes in jazz composition and arranging, improvisation, jazz history, and jazz piano studies.

Recent media projects include production score preparation for PBS and other film and television ventures; arrangements on Grammy-nominated recordings by pianist Orrin Evans and vocalist Dianne Reeves; orchestral scores for Salsa legend Eddie Palmieri; ensemble charts for pianist Michel Camilo, some of which were featured at the 25th Anniversary Heineken Jazz Festival; custom scores for Conrad Herwig, including his 2016 release, “Reflections” on the Criss Cross label, the 2022 release, “The Latin Side of Charles Mingus”; 2023’s “The Latin Side of McCoy Tyner”; and international projects for the Moscow Jazz Orchestra and WDR Big Band.

Stasio is affiliated with the International Society of Jazz Arrangers and Composers (ISJAC), the New Jersey Association for Jazz Education (NJAJE), and the Jazz Education Network (JEN).