Mark Deutsch Mark Deutsch can best be described as a 21st century Renaissance man. A professional musician since the age of twelve, he is a visionary artist with a background in non-linear mathematics, sacred systems and cosmology. As a classically trained bassist and sitar player he has gained extensive experience in orchestral ensembles, world music traditions, jazz combos, and solo sitar performance. Whilst studying sitar and North Indian classical music with the legendary Ustad Imrat Khan, Mark began delving deeper into the universal fundamentals of music and their underlying frequency structures. These studies culminated in 1999 with Mark being awarded the US patent for his ground breaking new instrument the Bazantar - a five-string acoustic bass fitted with an additional twenty-nine sympathetic strings and four drone strings. The result is a remarkable instrument that weaves a mesmerizing soundscape of resonance, and evokes all the power of Western classical music with the depth and nuance of Eastern traditions.

Since the creation of the Bazantar, and the critically acclaimed release of his first solo album “Fool”, Mark has been performing extensively world wide. His awe-inspiring solo sitar and Bazantar performances have drawn rave reviews from the international music community and have generated invitations for Mark to perform at the Juilliard School of Music, Merkan Concert Hall, Earthdance International, The Hawaiian Contrabass Festival and many other high profile venues. Mark recently completed the theatre score for a much lauded French production of Steven Berkoff’s adaptation of Poe’s “Fall of the House of Usher". On the collaborative side, his music has attracted an eclectic array of some of today’s finest musicians, including Grammy award-winning cellist David Darling, film composer David Julyan (Insomnia, Memento), seminal Chicago rock band Tortoise, virtuoso erhu player and principle soloist with the Beijing National Symphony Yang Ying, and jazz luminaries such as William Parker, Roy Campbell, and Hamid Drake.

Mark currently resides in San Francisco while working on his second solo release, the film score for Roko Belic's (Ghenghis Blues) new film "Twillight Men", and collaborative projects with Dijeridu master Stephen Kent and musician, scientist Jaron Lanier. The word is getting out and some of the most respected musicians, scientists and sonic adventurers are looking to him as a revolutionary guide to these newfound realms of vibration and sound.