Our Team

RIZA PRINTUP, President & Founder

Jazz harpist, composer and arranger Riza Printup has always had a special place in her heart for education. In addition to performing and/or recording with the likes of husband Marcus Printup, Paquito D'Rivera, Kenny Werner, the Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra, Yo-Yo Ma, Lady Gaga and Kathleen Battle, she continues her work as an Educator (Grades PreK-5). Ms. Printup served as Director of Early Childhood Music and Orchestra at The Greater Atlanta Christian School (Atlanta, GA), and Director of Strings at The Cicely Tyson School of Performing Arts (East Orange, NJ). She was also an Instructor for the WeBop program at Jazz at Lincoln Center (New York, NY).

Riza’s passion for education has taken her to develop I Have A Song Inside My Heart ™, a program and curriculum for early childhood and the K-5 General Music classroom as well as author her first two children's books, Theodore and Hazel and the Bird (2016) and The Great Big Spider & The Waterspout Blues (2019).

In September of 2019, she and her husband Marcus Printup founded RiMarcable Music For Arts & Education, their non-profit organization through which they continue their outreach.

Ms. Printup pursued her undergraduate studies at the Indiana University School of Music, Bloomington, IN under the instruction of Distinguished Professor of Harp, Susan McDonald. She received her Bachelors of Arts in Music from Columbia College, Chicago, IL where she continued exploring studies in Jazz. She completed her coursework towards her Master of Music from Georgia State University's School of Music under the tutelage of Elisabeth Remy Johnson. Other instructors include Dominique Piana, Linda Wood, Beverly Wesner-Hoehn, Deborah Henson-Conant, Stella Castellucci and Distinguished Professor of Jazz, the late David Baker.

MARCUS PRINTUP, Vice President

A twenty seven year member of the Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra in New York City, Marcus Printup attributes his first musical experiences hearing the fiery gospel music his parents sang at their home church, the Peeks Chapel Baptist Church in Conyers, GA.

In 1991 Mr. Printup’s life changed when he met his mentor, the great pianist Marcus Roberts. Roberts introduced him to Wynton Marsalis, which led to Mr. Printup’s induction into the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra in 1993.

As a solo artist, Mr. Printup has led multiple recordings on several major record labels:

BLUE NOTE RECORDS: Song for the Beautiful Woman, Unveiled, Hub Songs, Nocturnal Traces
NAGEL HEYER RECORDS: The New Boogaloo
STEEPLECHASE RECORDS: Peace In The Abstract, Bird of Paradise, London Lullaby, Ballads All Night, A Time for Love, Homage, Desire, Lost, Young Bloods, Gentle Rain

Mr. Printup has recorded with Betty Carter, Dianne Reeves, Eric Reed, Madeline Peyroux, Ted Nash, Cyrus Chestnut, Wycliffe Gordon, and Marcus Roberts, among others.

Mr. Printup is highly sought out as an Educator and is regularly called upon to facilitate clinics and masterclasses. He is involved with programs such as JALC's Essentially Ellington Competition/Festival, JALC’s Swing University, Savannah Music Festival’s Swing Central Jazz, The International Trumpet Guild, Betty Carter’s Jazz Ahead at the Kennedy Center and The New School (Manhattan). In 2019, Mr. Printup joined Montclair State University as Adjunct Professor of Jazz Trumpet.

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Laura holds a Bachelors Degree in Special Education from Illinois State University, a Masters Degree in Music Education from Northern Illinois University and a Masters Degree in Educational Leadership from Concordia University Chicago. She studied Suzuki piano with Marilyn Montzka (Northern Illinois University Suzuki program) and Early Childhood Music with Dr. Beth Bolton (Temple University). Laura has received training in the WeBop Curriculum with Dr. Lori Custodero (Teachers College Columbia University) and in the summer of 2018, Laura completed her Orff-Schulwerk Certification with Jean Hersey (Vandercook College of Music).
Laura lives in Brookfield, Illinois with her husband, Mark and two daughters.

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