Mark Kraszewski gained three degrees from the Eastman School of Music: Bachelor of Music in Saxophone, Applied Saxophone Performance, Master of Music in Saxophone Performance and Literature and Doctor of Musical Arts in Saxophone Performance and Literature with a minor in Jazz Studies. He taught classical and jazz saxophone to Cornell University music majors and non-majors and he was a lecturer at the University of Rochester Music Department where he directed the Jazz Combos and taught Basic Jazz Theory and Improvisation, as well as Elements of Music and Introduction to Music Theory. He currently teaches woodwinds at the Midori & Friends Foundation in New York. He has performed as a soloist with the University of Rochester Wind Symphony and at the 2015 World Saxophone Congress he gave a lecture about Miles Davis' tenor saxophonists.