Trained as an ethnomusicologist, jazz historian, and pianist, Mark Lomanno (UR '02) explores the resonances between artistic performance, academic study, and sustainable community-building as a faculty member in musicology and anthropology at the University of Miami. His performance, archival, and ethnographic work in the Canary Islands began in 2009, and includes performance residencies and recordings with saxophonist Enrique "Kike" Perdomo (Celebrate Brooklyn II, 2013) and the Simbeque collective (Simbeque, v.2, 2018). While completing his PhD in ethnomusicology at the University of Texas-Austin, he was active in the San Antonio jazz scene, recording two albums with the global jazz group Le Monde Caché (Tales and Tongues, 2011; and Greenhorn in a Red State, 2014). As a jazz industry professional, Lomanno has experience in archival work, arts administration, music journalism, and venue management. He also writes for the magazine Jazz Times and runs the website “Rhythm of Study” (rhythmofstudy.com). 

Specializing in interdisciplinary approaches to music studies, Lomanno approaches his teaching and research through a mix of environmental humanities, ethnography, historiography, spiritual practices, and translation studies. His most recent academic publication is the edited volume The Improviser's Classroom: Pedagogies for Cocreative Worldmaking (Temple University Press), which was awarded honorable mention for the Society for Ethnomusicology's 2025 Ellen Koskoff Edited Volume Prize. He has several ongoing projects, including chapters in Translating the Field: Music, Power, Praxis; the Oxford Handbook of Ecomusicology; and Canary Islands Studies: Critical Entanglements, New Approaches. His monograph on intercultural collaboration in global jazz is forthcoming.