Mark A. Lackey
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The music of Mark A. Lackey opens toward wonder with a childlike sense of play, a belief that music extends the realm of the imagined and gives an intensification of life. FIREWORKS, violinist Courtney Orlando, the Mulberry Brass Quintet, 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 and The Peabody Conservatory and is happy to be teaching at Towson University this fall. 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.