COMPOSER, PERFORMER, EDUCATOR
"Buoyant, at times playful...a classical, yet unrestrained lyricism" (ArtsBham).
Composer, performer, educator MARK LACKEY works in a range of genres to reach listeners who might not otherwise encounter newly-composed art music.
As a composer of vocal, electronic, chamber, orchestral, and wind ensemble music, Mark Lackey has garnered premieres from many gifted artists including Orquestra Sinfônica do Teatro Nacional Claudio Santoro (Brasília), Rhymes With Opera, and the Eastman Wind Orchestra. His music is available on the Centaur and Potenza Music labels, through Dorn Publications, and on his own Julian Date Music imprint. Honors include a public reading by the Alabama Symphony Orchestra, an Encore Grant from the American Composers Forum, selection as finalist in the American Composer Competition of the Columbia (MD) Orchestra, and a 2024 Artist Fellowship and grant from the Alabama State Council on the Arts.
As a performer, Mark Lackey gives lecture recitals on piano music by the remarkable but little-known composer Sophie Maria Westenholz. Westenholz was Kapellmeisterin of the Mecklenburg-Schwerin court chapel at Ludwigslust, which music program she led for four very successful decades. Mark Lackey's next presentation of her music will be in Vilnius, Lithuania at the College Music Society's 2023 International Conference.
Mark Lackey is also an energetic educator. As Professor at Samford University's School of the Arts, he teaches music composition and theory. His teaching has earned him a Johns Hopkins University Arts Innovation Grant and two Samford University Innovative Technology Grants. 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 (past president and past treasurer), 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 Orquestra Sinfônica do Teatro Nacional Claudio Santoro (Brasília), Rhymes With Opera, and the Eastman Wind Orchestra. His music is available on the Centaur and Potenza Music labels, through Dorn Publications, and on his own Julian Date Music imprint. Honors include a public reading by the Alabama Symphony Orchestra, an Encore Grant from the American Composers Forum, selection as finalist in the American Composer Competition of the Columbia (MD) Orchestra, and a 2024 Artist Fellowship and grant from the Alabama State Council on the Arts.
As a performer, Mark Lackey gives lecture recitals on piano music by the remarkable but little-known composer Sophie Maria Westenholz. Westenholz was Kapellmeisterin of the Mecklenburg-Schwerin court chapel at Ludwigslust, which music program she led for four very successful decades. Mark Lackey's next presentation of her music will be in Vilnius, Lithuania at the College Music Society's 2023 International Conference.
Mark Lackey is also an energetic educator. As Professor at Samford University's School of the Arts, he teaches music composition and theory. His teaching has earned him a Johns Hopkins University Arts Innovation Grant and two Samford University Innovative Technology Grants. 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 (past president and past treasurer), and the College Music Society.