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A composer whose work has been performed by the Eastman Wind Orchestra, violinist Courtney Orlando, and Vientos Trio in Los Angeles, Mark A. Lackey is also a passionate teacher. This year his courses include core theory and musicianship offerings at Towson University and a new grant funded Introduction to Computer Music under the "Peabody at Homewood" program at Johns Hopkins University. ...current projects include a work for voice and electronics, and a new piece for wind ensemble... The Definiens Project in Los Angeles will present the world premiere of Tangle, a re-imagined tango for flute, cor anglais, violin and cello, during their 2011-2012 season! Thanks are due once again; Vientos Trio, a subset of the Definiens Project, is already performing and promoting my new reed trio arrangment of Blugue (see video below), for which they were awarded an American Composers Forum ENCORE Grant.
It is a privilege to thank guitarist Mark Edwards and his wife, soprano Jennifer Edwards (neé Holbrook), for programming Seven Sketches of Beginning yet again, this time on the final recital for his Graduate Performance Diploma at The Peabody Conservatory, April 1, 2011 at 8:00 p.m. in Griswold Hall. I created a new musique concrète work that was presented in Baltimore on August 12, 2010 as part of 130% Surround Sound, a special programming series featuring 4-channel audio co-presented by After Now and the Red Room. Thanks to Los Angeles-based Vientos Trio for performing my new reed trio arrangement of Blugue at Biola University Music at Noon on March 24, at USC Parkside Performance Café on April 22, and at the ASTO Museum of Art on May 22, 2010. Pianist Steven Beck performed movements from Mark's Sonata for Piano: Lasker in NYC on November 15, 2009 on the Walden School Alumni Composers Forum at the Gershwin Hotel, 7 East 27th Street. The Eastman Wind Orchestra gave the WORLD PREMIERE of October Sunrise on October 21, 2009 in Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre, the breathtakingly renovated hall built in 1922 by Eastman Kodak Company founder George Eastman as a concert hall and movie palace. FINALIST: Convergence for orchestra (audio excerpts here) was one of seven finalists in the Columbia Orchestra 2009 American Composer Competition. (Congratulations to winner Albert Hurwit and the other six finalists!) | |||
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Blugue for Reed Trio Performed by The Vientos Trio Biola University, March 24, 2010
Ritual Dance for Piano and Three People This idea came to me when I was studying with Bruno Amato at The Peabody Conservatory. I took him my sketches and pre-compositional diagrams and talked excitedly for what must have been half an hour. He shrugged, smiled, and said, "It's not bad - for a theatre piece." People: Tugce Tari, Janet Kao, Stephanie Kai-Win Ho
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This violin solo was premiered in 2007 by Courtney Orlando I was interested in covering a great deal of affective distance in a relatively short time. The piece moves from a grounded, meditative state to a lively feeling and then to an intensely focused mood in three equal sections, maintaining continuity by deriving all the pitches and rhythms from the more prominent natural overtones of one fundamental. Writing for the amazing Courtney Orlando also afforded the opportunity to use virtuoso extended techniques. Recorded live at the Red Room at Normals Books and Records, Baltimore, MD, 21 July 2007. ©2007 Mark A. Lackey | |||
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Thank you for browsing... W W W . M A R K L A C K E Y . N E TThe content of this site was hurriedly poked and prodded in early December, 2011. ML.
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