"Buoyant, at times playful...a classical, yet unrestrained lyricism" (ArtsBham.com).
Click here to listen to the Potenza Music album Agents of Espionage by clarinetist Brian Viliunas, which includes premiere recordings of two works by Mark Lackey: Paths of the Seas and Particles.
As a composer of vocal, electronic, chamber, orchestral, and wind ensemble music, Mark Lackey has garnered premieres from many gifted artists including Rhymes With Opera, Fireworks Ensemble, Eastman Wind Orchestra, Definiens Ensemble, Druid City Ensemble, cellist Craig Hultgren, violist Victor de Almeida, and violinist Courtney Orlando. His music is available on the Potenza Music label, through Dorn Publications, and on his own Julian Date Music imprint, and he is currently working on a new album of original music to be titled Fairy Tale. Honors include a public reading by the Alabama Symphony Orchestra, an Encore Grant from the American Composers Forum, and selection as finalist in the American Composer Competition of the Columbia (MD) Orchestra.
Mark Lackey is also an energetic educator. As Assistant Professor at Samford University's School of the Arts, he teaches composition and music theory. His teaching has earned him a Johns Hopkins University Arts Innovation Grant and a Samford University Innovative Technology Grant. He earned the degrees Doctor of Musical Arts in composition, Master of Music in theory pedagogy, and Master of Music in composition from The Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University where his teachers included Christopher Theofanidis, Bruno Amato, and Nicholas Maw. He is a member of Pi Kappa Lambda national honor society in music, the American Composers Forum, the Birmingham Art Music Alliance (current president), and the College Music Society.
As a composer of vocal, electronic, chamber, orchestral, and wind ensemble music, Mark Lackey has garnered premieres from many gifted artists including Rhymes With Opera, Fireworks Ensemble, Eastman Wind Orchestra, Definiens Ensemble, Druid City Ensemble, cellist Craig Hultgren, violist Victor de Almeida, and violinist Courtney Orlando. His music is available on the Potenza Music label, through Dorn Publications, and on his own Julian Date Music imprint, and he is currently working on a new album of original music to be titled Fairy Tale. Honors include a public reading by the Alabama Symphony Orchestra, an Encore Grant from the American Composers Forum, and selection as finalist in the American Composer Competition of the Columbia (MD) Orchestra.
Mark Lackey is also an energetic educator. As Assistant Professor at Samford University's School of the Arts, he teaches composition and music theory. His teaching has earned him a Johns Hopkins University Arts Innovation Grant and a Samford University Innovative Technology Grant. He earned the degrees Doctor of Musical Arts in composition, Master of Music in theory pedagogy, and Master of Music in composition from The Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University where his teachers included Christopher Theofanidis, Bruno Amato, and Nicholas Maw. He is a member of Pi Kappa Lambda national honor society in music, the American Composers Forum, the Birmingham Art Music Alliance (current president), and the College Music Society.