Final mastering is now underway for the forthcoming album Fairy Tale! I have the green light from several labels, so it's almost decision time. Meanwhile Ed Tetreault, manager of recording services at The Peabody Conservatory, is probably hunched over a hot mixer right now....
Thanks to cellist Keats Rivas for programming my Quartet for Strings on his May 9, 2017 recital! Keats was joined by violinists Jordan Kirchner and Kathryn Lamb and violist Anna Taylor for a really beautiful performance.
I am deeply grateful to all who performed on my faculty composition recital on February 7, 2017 in Samford University's Brock Recital Hall, and to all who attended. Thank you! The program included the world premieres of choral works In the Beginning Was the Word and New Song, Song Cycle: Family, and my Quartet for Strings, as well as repeat performances of my Sonata for Viola: do and Starscapes for solo piano.
Great news! I was selected as a semi-finalist in The American Prize for Chamber Music Composition! You can learn more about this prestigious national competition here.
On Tuesday, October 18 at 7:30 p.m., pianist Kathryn Fouse presented a program of music by her students and colleagues, including Sarah Allen, Maggie Boswell, Brianna Ware, Smith Leithart, Brian Nabors, Joel Scott Davis, and Mark Lackey. The performance was given in Samford University's Brock Recital Hall in Birmingham, Alabama.
Thanks to NewBandMusic.com for listing October Sunrise in their database! NewBandMusic.com is a highly competitive database featuring the best in new self-published music for wind ensemble and band. Audio recording, score sample, and instrumentation info for October Sunrise are available on NewBandMusic.com.
Work continues on the forthcoming Fairy Tale album, with studio time in May and June 2016 to record and mix Outside the Bluebird. Artists on this track are Brian Viliunas, clarinet; Alex Zdanis, bassoon; Grant Dalton, marimba; Mark Lackey, Appalachian dulcimer; Chris Smith, Dobro; and Dan Carson, bass. Visit my SoundCloud page to hear a rough recording of the group in rehearsal.
Percussion ensemble Iron Giant presented a concert at the Hoover Library Auditorium on April 28, 2016 at 7:30 p.m. The program, presented by Birmingham Art Music Alliance, included Lackey's new work Paraphasia for percussion quartet.
On April 10, 2016 at 7:30 p.m. Lackey's Particles II was among the new works for wind quintet and piano presented by the Birmingham Art Music Alliance in Brock Recital Hall at Samford University. Artists included flutist Barbara Harrington, oboist James Sullivan, clarinetist Brian Viliunas, bassoonist Tariq Masri, hornist Kevin Kozak, and pianist Kathryn Fouse.
Lackey's Outside the Bluebird brings chamber music and old time country music together, blending clarinet, bassoon and marimba with string bass, resonator guitar, and Appalachian dulcimer. The work was given its world premiere by clarinetist Brian Viliunas, bassoonist Alex Zdanis, percussionist Grant Dalton, bassist Richard Cassarino, and guitarist Chris Smith – together with the composer on Appalachian dulcimer – as part of the College Music Society's Southern Regional Conference on February 18, 2016 in Birmingham, Alabama.
Druid City Ensemble (soprano Dawn Neely, flutist Whitney O'Neal, and harpist Sarah K. Crocker) gave a concert at Southside Baptist Church on November 7, 2015 and at the University of Montevallo on November 8, 2015. These concerts included the world premiere of Lackey's new work Dreams, a setting of a test by the Australian late Romantic poet Victor J. Daley. Visit the media page right now to hear it for free!
Guitarist Oren Fader and flutist Margaret Lancaster performed Lackey's embodied (for flute, guitar, and boombox) on October 22, 2015 as part of the CIRCUIT BRIDGES concert at Gallery MC in New York City. This concert brought together new music from Birmingham and New York and was presented by Vox Novus.
Pianist Jacob Mason performed Lackey's Sonata for Piano: Lasker on the Birmingham New Music Festival on Saturday, October 10, 1:00 p.m. at Alabama Piano Gallery!
Clarinetists Brian Viliunas, Nathan Howard, Will Featherston, and Marisa Garrett performed Lackey's Particles on Saturday, October 10, 7:30 p.m. at UAB's Hulsey Recital Hall as part of the Birmingham New Music Festival!
Agents of Espionage is the new Potenza Music album by clarinetist Brian Viliunas, and it includes two new works by Mark Lackey: Paths of the Seas and Particles. Click here to hear it!
Cellist Craig Hultgren performed Mark Lackey's Omnis Lingua for cello and computer on his retrospective concert at Moonlight on the Mountain, Birmingham, AL on February 4, 2015.
Cellist Laura Usiskin and the Birmingham Art Music Alliance presented New Music For Young Ears at STEP (Suzuki Talent Education Program) Birmingham, 1101 18th Street South, Birmingham AL 35205 at 4:00 p.m. on November 8, 2014. This special program for young people included beautiful interpretations of music by Ron Wray (The Lion and the Mouse), William Price (The Cat), Cynthia Miller (Taily-Po), and Mark Lackey (Fairy Tale).
Dorn Publications, specialists in concert music for reed instruments, are now the publisher of two of Mark Lackey's works: Blugue for Saxophone Trio and Blugue for Reed Trio, effective 2014.
On April 30, 2014, the Alabama Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Maestro Christopher Confessore conducted a reading of five new pieces by regional composers, including TANGLE: An Off-Kilter Tango by Mark Lackey. The reading, held in the Alys Stephens Performing Arts Center, was sponsored by the Birmingham Art Music Alliance.
Fairy Tale was featured in the inaugural issue (No. 53) of the College Music Society’s Symposium Online: Audio Performance Archive, a peer-reviewed presentation of the work of College Music Society members. According to the Society's website, "the Archive presents the work of the finest composers and performers working in the field of music today."
Thanks to cellist Keats Rivas for programming my Quartet for Strings on his May 9, 2017 recital! Keats was joined by violinists Jordan Kirchner and Kathryn Lamb and violist Anna Taylor for a really beautiful performance.
I am deeply grateful to all who performed on my faculty composition recital on February 7, 2017 in Samford University's Brock Recital Hall, and to all who attended. Thank you! The program included the world premieres of choral works In the Beginning Was the Word and New Song, Song Cycle: Family, and my Quartet for Strings, as well as repeat performances of my Sonata for Viola: do and Starscapes for solo piano.
Great news! I was selected as a semi-finalist in The American Prize for Chamber Music Composition! You can learn more about this prestigious national competition here.
On Tuesday, October 18 at 7:30 p.m., pianist Kathryn Fouse presented a program of music by her students and colleagues, including Sarah Allen, Maggie Boswell, Brianna Ware, Smith Leithart, Brian Nabors, Joel Scott Davis, and Mark Lackey. The performance was given in Samford University's Brock Recital Hall in Birmingham, Alabama.
Thanks to NewBandMusic.com for listing October Sunrise in their database! NewBandMusic.com is a highly competitive database featuring the best in new self-published music for wind ensemble and band. Audio recording, score sample, and instrumentation info for October Sunrise are available on NewBandMusic.com.
Work continues on the forthcoming Fairy Tale album, with studio time in May and June 2016 to record and mix Outside the Bluebird. Artists on this track are Brian Viliunas, clarinet; Alex Zdanis, bassoon; Grant Dalton, marimba; Mark Lackey, Appalachian dulcimer; Chris Smith, Dobro; and Dan Carson, bass. Visit my SoundCloud page to hear a rough recording of the group in rehearsal.
Percussion ensemble Iron Giant presented a concert at the Hoover Library Auditorium on April 28, 2016 at 7:30 p.m. The program, presented by Birmingham Art Music Alliance, included Lackey's new work Paraphasia for percussion quartet.
On April 10, 2016 at 7:30 p.m. Lackey's Particles II was among the new works for wind quintet and piano presented by the Birmingham Art Music Alliance in Brock Recital Hall at Samford University. Artists included flutist Barbara Harrington, oboist James Sullivan, clarinetist Brian Viliunas, bassoonist Tariq Masri, hornist Kevin Kozak, and pianist Kathryn Fouse.
Lackey's Outside the Bluebird brings chamber music and old time country music together, blending clarinet, bassoon and marimba with string bass, resonator guitar, and Appalachian dulcimer. The work was given its world premiere by clarinetist Brian Viliunas, bassoonist Alex Zdanis, percussionist Grant Dalton, bassist Richard Cassarino, and guitarist Chris Smith – together with the composer on Appalachian dulcimer – as part of the College Music Society's Southern Regional Conference on February 18, 2016 in Birmingham, Alabama.
Druid City Ensemble (soprano Dawn Neely, flutist Whitney O'Neal, and harpist Sarah K. Crocker) gave a concert at Southside Baptist Church on November 7, 2015 and at the University of Montevallo on November 8, 2015. These concerts included the world premiere of Lackey's new work Dreams, a setting of a test by the Australian late Romantic poet Victor J. Daley. Visit the media page right now to hear it for free!
Guitarist Oren Fader and flutist Margaret Lancaster performed Lackey's embodied (for flute, guitar, and boombox) on October 22, 2015 as part of the CIRCUIT BRIDGES concert at Gallery MC in New York City. This concert brought together new music from Birmingham and New York and was presented by Vox Novus.
Pianist Jacob Mason performed Lackey's Sonata for Piano: Lasker on the Birmingham New Music Festival on Saturday, October 10, 1:00 p.m. at Alabama Piano Gallery!
Clarinetists Brian Viliunas, Nathan Howard, Will Featherston, and Marisa Garrett performed Lackey's Particles on Saturday, October 10, 7:30 p.m. at UAB's Hulsey Recital Hall as part of the Birmingham New Music Festival!
Agents of Espionage is the new Potenza Music album by clarinetist Brian Viliunas, and it includes two new works by Mark Lackey: Paths of the Seas and Particles. Click here to hear it!
Cellist Craig Hultgren performed Mark Lackey's Omnis Lingua for cello and computer on his retrospective concert at Moonlight on the Mountain, Birmingham, AL on February 4, 2015.
Cellist Laura Usiskin and the Birmingham Art Music Alliance presented New Music For Young Ears at STEP (Suzuki Talent Education Program) Birmingham, 1101 18th Street South, Birmingham AL 35205 at 4:00 p.m. on November 8, 2014. This special program for young people included beautiful interpretations of music by Ron Wray (The Lion and the Mouse), William Price (The Cat), Cynthia Miller (Taily-Po), and Mark Lackey (Fairy Tale).
Dorn Publications, specialists in concert music for reed instruments, are now the publisher of two of Mark Lackey's works: Blugue for Saxophone Trio and Blugue for Reed Trio, effective 2014.
On April 30, 2014, the Alabama Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Maestro Christopher Confessore conducted a reading of five new pieces by regional composers, including TANGLE: An Off-Kilter Tango by Mark Lackey. The reading, held in the Alys Stephens Performing Arts Center, was sponsored by the Birmingham Art Music Alliance.
Fairy Tale was featured in the inaugural issue (No. 53) of the College Music Society’s Symposium Online: Audio Performance Archive, a peer-reviewed presentation of the work of College Music Society members. According to the Society's website, "the Archive presents the work of the finest composers and performers working in the field of music today."
