Mark Rapp has played sold out shows at the Blue Note (NY), Joe’s Pub, Yoshi’s (San Fran) and such venues as the JVC Newport Jazz Festival, Dizzy’s at Jazz Lincoln Center, JazzTime Festival (Croatia), Jazzland (Vienna), Jazz Standard (New York), Blues Alley (D.C.) and more. Mark was named a "top emerging trumpeter" by Downbeat Magazine, featured on a Travel Channel documentary and has played with such diverse artists as Branford Marsalis to Hootie and the Blowfish.

Rapp holds a Masters in Jazz Studies from the University of New Orleans and a Bachelors in Performance from Winthrop University. He earned his Masters degree under the tutelage of Ellis Marsalis and lived and played in New Orleans for 5 years. Rapp then moved to New York where he lived and played for 9 years. Currently residing in Geneva, Switzerland and New York, NY, Rapp is constantly performing in support of his various projects.

Rapp has 3 records as a leader including his critically-loved debut "Token Tales" (2009), "Braden-Rapp: The Strayhorn Project" (2010) with saxophone great Don Braden, GRAMMY-nominated pianist Gerald Clayton and vocalist Sachal Vasandani (bradenrapp.com) and The Song Project’s "Art of the Song, vol.1" (2010) – an industry first “Applum” (thesongproject.net). Disney’s “Everybody Wants to be a Cat” which features Roy Hargrove, Dave Brubeck, Esperanza Spalding, The Bad Plus, Joshua Redman and more also features Rapp on it’s closing track.

"...more than anyone else among today's trumpeters, Rapp is breaking down the age old paradigms as to how the trumpet ought to be played in a jazz environment..."
- JazzPolice.com

"Top emerging trumpter"
- DownBeat Magazine, '07

"Rapp lives up to his billing as one of today's exciting young trumpeters."
- AllAboutJazz.com

"One can't help but sense a distinct identity to Rapp in both his composing and playing… and for this reason, we will be hearing a lot more from him."
-Jazz Improv NY Magazine

“He has his own way of defining jazz, which keeps its standard principles… while delving into the experimental side…”
– JazzTimes

"When Jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis played Winthrop University... he called music performance major Mark Rapp '...a sharp young man. He plays with soul, has style and he's clean too...' Marsalis said."
-The Herald