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MARK A. LACKEY

COMPOSER

...currently creating new music for wind ensemble and for mixed chamber group, plus a quadraphonic musique concrète work...

Join us at the Red Room in Baltimore for a joint venture of 130% Surround Sound (a special August programming series featuring 4-channel audio) and After Now. I will be contributing a new musique concrète work to be presented on August 12, 2010.

The new 20-minute Sinfonietta for Strings for the Carroll County String Project is completed, just in time for the summer 2010 session. Performance is scheduled for August 14 and 15. Learn more here.

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.

Definiens and The Vientos Trio were awarded an American Composers Forum ENCORE Grant in December 2009 to perform and promote Mark A. Lackey's Blugue.

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!)

Check out the printed score of Medium....

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
Recorded live, Friedburg Concert Hall at The Peabody Conservatory of Music, 13 December 2001.

©2001 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.

Recorded live at the Red Room at Normals Books and Records, Baltimore, MD, 21 July 2007.

©2007 Mark A. Lackey

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