Mark A. Puckett

Professor of Piano and Artist in Residence
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mpuckett@hsutx.edu

Dr. Mark Puckett is Professor of Piano and Artist-in- Residence. He has performed as soloist and chamber musician in the United States, Canada, Europe, Central America, and Asia. Conductors with whom he has worked include Shinik Hahm, Robert Cronquist, Guy Frazier Harrison and Ray Luke. Dr. Puckett frequently performs two-piano programs with his wife, Lauren Puckett, and is in demand as a master class clinician, lecturer and adjudicator. He has won awards in several international piano competitions including second prize in the 1990 New Orleans International Piano Competition. He received his Bachelor of Music degree at Oklahoma City University where he studied piano with Dr. Clarence Burg and Ernestine Scott. He then attended the University of Kansas and completed his masters and doctoral degrees in piano with Sequeira Costa, Leon Fleisher, Menahem Pressler and Claude Frank. He has recorded a CD of Chopin's Op 10 Etudes, Ravel's Gaspard de la nuit and Liszt's 'La campanella'.

Listen to Mark and his wife Lauren perform the Lutoslawski Paganini Variations