Composer, performer, educator Mark Lackey works in a range of genres to reach listeners who might not otherwise encounter newly-composed art music. 

Mark Lackey has garnered premieres from gifted artists including Orquestra Sinfônica do Teatro Nacional Claudio Santoro (Brasília), the Idaho Falls Symphony, Rhymes With Opera, and the Eastman Wind Orchestra. His music was recognized with a 2024 Artist Fellowship from the Alabama State Council on the Arts and is available on the Centaur, Potenza, Composers Concordance, and MSR Classics labels. Mark Lackey's most recent undertaking, TOGETHER, blends musical styles as a metaphor and an opportunity for bringing people together with a message of renewal and hope. His current project is a new opera on the diary of the third-century Christian martyr Perpetua.

As a performer, Mark Lackey has given lecture recitals on piano music by the remarkable but little-known composer Sophie Maria Westenholz, and performances of his own original works in the United States and in Rīga, Latvia.

Mark Lackey is also an energetic educator, teaching music composition and theory as Professor of Music at Samford University. 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, and earned the Bachelor of Science degree from David Lipscomb College (now University) where he studied piano with Jerome Reed.

Mark Lackey makes his home in Birmingham, Alabama with his wonderful wife and daughter. They are members of the Hoover Church of Christ.

Degrees and Certifications

DMA, music composition, The Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University MM, music theory pedagogy, The Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University MM, music composition, The Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University BS, psychology, music, Lipscomb University