Chuck Marohnic

Chuck Marohnic has enjoyed a multi-faceted career. Starting four decades ago as a jazz pianist, today he is a respected musician, educator, author, composer, and arranger. His present position is Director of Jazz Studies at Arizona State University. For over 40 years, Chuck has shared his musical gifts through his playing, teaching, writing, composing, and arranging. He has recorded 24 albums and CDs, written 4 instructional books and 11 collections of arrangements, and has recorded with such jazz greats as Chet Baker, Joe Henderson, David Friesen and Jamey Aebersold. He also served as music minister at The Fountains, a United Methodist Church in Fountain Hills, AZ, for three years and now is a music minister for Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church in Scottsdale, AZ. He is a frequent guest at numerous churches of all Christian traditions.

Chuck Marohnic has served as a visiting clinician and performer at festivals in Germany, Brazil, and France. For five years he acted as Coordinator of Jazz Studies and a guest artist at the Fairbanks summer Arts Festival in Fairbanks, Alaska. In May of 1998, Chuck visited Brazil for a second time where he performed concerts and presented clinics for a week’s residency. While in Brazil he recorded an instructional video for MPO entitled "The Creation of a Solo Jazz Piano Arrangement." Chuck was also invited to perform the Concerto with the Bulgarian National Youth Symphony Orchestra for a European tour .

Chuck has written jazz piano arrangements of familiar church hymns and worship and praise songs, taking them from inside church walls to the entire community.

Piano music by Chuck Marohnic