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Mark Lockett

Mark Lockett

Head of World Music, Assistant Head of Dept of Composition

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  • About me

    freelance composer, pianist, educator - world music specialist

  • Education

    • Creative Music Foundation, Woodstock NY

      1980 - 1981
      Diploma CMF jazz

      Studied improvisation and composition with Don Cherry, Steve Lacy, Marion Brown, Borah Bergman and Karl Berger

    • City University London

      1981 - 1988
      PhD Music

      "Improvising Pianists: Aspects of Keyboard Technique and Musical Structure in Free Jazz 1955 - 1980" Submitted 1988.

    • University of California, San Diego

      1977 - 1979
      M.A Music

      Studied composition with Pauline Oliveros, and world music: gamelan, and music of the Zuni Indians

    • University of York

      1974 - 1977
      B.A (Hons) Music

      Studied Indian music and gamelan with Neil Sorrell

  • Experience

    • Birmingham City University

      Jan 1989 - Jan 2002
      Head of World Music, Assistant Head of Dept of Composition

      Lecturer in ethnomusicology, teacher of composition, course director for BMus in Indian Classical Music

    • La Fabrique des Arts, Carcassonne

      Sept 2013 - Sept 2020
      Enseignant Artistique

      Taught piano (department head), composition and world music

    • Self-employed

      Sept 2020 - now
      Freelance composer, pianist, educator - world music specialist

      Now an "auto-entrepreneur" as a workshop leader, composer and performing musician,

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • DE

      Institut Supérieur des arts de Toulouse