Dr. Mark Lomanno is an ethnomusicologist, jazz pianist, and professor of musicology and anthropology at the University of Miami. Lomanno specializes in holistic and interdisciplinary approaches to music that incorporate ethnography, historiography, performance practice, and music theory, as well as embodied perception, environmental humanities, and critical improvisation studies. Geographically, their ethnographic, performance, and scholarly work are based in the Afro-Atlantic world, most especially in the Canary Islands and the archipelagoes of Macaronesia.

Lomanno has published in multiple journals, the Grove Dictionary of American Music, and in two recent edited volumes (Intimate Entanglements: Vulnerability in the Ethnography of Performance and Playing for Keeps: Improvisation in the Aftermath of Crisis). In Fall 2024 a volume he co-edited with Daniel Fischlin, titled The Improviser’s Classroom: Pedagogies for Co-Creative Worldmaking, will be published in Temple University Press’s Insubordinate Spaces series. He has several ongoing publication projects, including chapters in the Oxford Handbook of Jazz and Political Economy, the Oxford Handbook of Ecomusicology, and Translating the Field: Music, Power, Praxis. His monograph on intercultural collaborations in jazz music is forthcoming.