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MARK A. LACKEY

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embodied

DUO MARE (JeeYoung Rachel Choe, flute, and Akiko Sumi, guitar) gave the premiere of this piece for flute and guitar duo with boom box on the third After Now concert of new music in Baltimore. As I told them:

I HOPE YOU HAVE FUN WITH THIS!! (Or, to put it another way: "embodied enacts the re-embodiment of situated cognition and our sensorimotor experience of music as described by Vijay Iyer, a way of experiencing music that has been devalued in binaries of 'high' and 'low' art. Because of its engagement with popular style and with the physicality of dance, it exists in opposition to the abstract, language-based, phallogocentric models of musical meaning that have been dominant in the discourse within and about modernist music. Additionally, the unresolvable tension between the sounds from the boom box and the sounds from the flute and guitar, as well as dualities between electronic sounds and recorded 'real' sounds of clay and glass objects that foreground their earthiness, are themselves suggestive of these binaries and of the ever-present gap between our idea of a thing and the thing itself for which Derrida coined the term différance.")

Recorded live at the Red Room at Normals Books and Records, Baltimore, MD, 8 March 2008.

©2008 Mark A. Lackey

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This violin solo was premiered in 2007 by Courtney Orlando
on the first After Now concert of new music in Baltimore.

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 Courtney Orlando also afforded the opportunity to use virtuoso extended techniques.

Courtney Orlando, violin (in photo, with C.R. Kasprzyk at Normals Books and Records), recorded live at the Red Room at Normals Books and Records, Baltimore, MD, 21 July 2007.

©2007 Mark A. Lackey

The music of Mark A. Lackey manifests a belief that life is richer when music expands the realm of imagined. FIREWORKS, violinist Courtney Orlando, the Mulberry Brass Quintet, DUO MARE, Thamyris, pianist Charles Hulin, violist Victor de Almeida and other excellent musicians have played his music, and his Three Simple Prayers were featured on a September 11 memorial program on NPR member station WETA-FM in Washington, DC.

Mark has taught privately and served as a faculty member of The Peabody Preparatory, The Peabody Conservatory and Towson University. Mark is pursuing the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in composition and a second Master of Music degree in music theory pedagogy from The Peabody, where he earned the Master of Music degree in composition. His past teachers include Jerome Reed, Bruno Amato, John Anthony Lennon, Christopher Theofanidis, and Nicholas Maw. Mark is a member of Pi Kappa Lambda national honor society in music.

Mark was composer in residence at the Lasker Summer Music Festival in Lasker, NC August 17 through 20, 2007. He heard an excellent performances by tenor Jeff Prillaman with pianist Charles Hulin, baritone Stephen Longenecker with Charles Hulin, soprano Julia Rolwing with pianist Lloyd Arriola, and a solo recital by Dr. Arriola that included the premiere of Mark's new sonata for piano. Thank you, Lloyd, and thanks to all at LSMF.

Congratulations to saxophonist Scott Builta and trombonist Joe Benfield. They played Mark Lackey's Due Capi for alto saxophone and trombone in the Michigan School Band and Orchestra Association District IV "S&E" (solo and ensemble) competition on February 3 and earned a spot in the statewide competition. Good work, Scott and Joe.

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