"Classically trained with a doctorate in music from Columbia University, Mark Birnbaum graduated into keeping ragtime alive and serving as staff pianist on the popular Joe Franklin television show. This Manhattan based pianist can play everything, and continues to do so throughout the New York City metropolitan area."

Edward Jablonski, Official Biographer of Irving Berlin, George Gershwin
& Harold Arlen.


"As anyone who's caught one of his several hundred appearances on Joe Franklin's television show will know, Mark Birnbaum (who has a Ph.D. from Columbia) is the consummate ragtime piano specialist. He
knows all of the classical rags by Scott Joplin, Eubie Blake, Jelly Roll