Frostburg State University’s Department of Music Presents Dr. Mackenzie Jacob LaMont in Faculty Artist Series Concert

Frostburg State University's Department of Music Presents Dr. Mackenzie Jacob LaMont in Faculty Artist Series Concert

Apr 15, 2026 8:00 AM

The Frostburg State University Department of Music will present composer and percussionist Dr. Mackenzie Jacob LaMont in a Faculty Artist Series concert on Monday, May 4, at 7:30 p.m. in the Pealer Recital Hall of FSU's Woodward D. Pealer Performing Arts Center. This event is free and open to the public, and free to view on YouTube; follow the link at https://www.frostburg.edu/concerts.

The program is entitled A Concert Unlike The One You Were Expecting - Compositions by Mackenzie Jacob LaMont. The concert features performers Mackenzie Jacob LaMont, Brent Weber, Joseph Yungen, Cheyenne Jeffries, Joseph Louie, the FSU Saxophone Quartet and the FSU Alumni Percussion Ensemble.

LaMont (b. 1989) is an active composer, percussionist, music educator, music copyist and arranger and audio engineer. His recent compositions have been focused on the environment as well as political and philosophical issues, with the sound world inhabiting a space somewhere between minimalism and post-progressive rock (with dashes of randomness here and there). He is an assistant professor at FSU where he teaches percussion lessons and ensemble, composition lessons and various courses within the music industry track, for which he is the coordinator. LaMont has a DMA in music composition with a cognate in percussion from the University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music, where he studied composition with Michael Fiday, Joel Hoffman and Douglas Knehans, and percussion with James Culley and Allen Otte. He holds prior degrees in composition, percussion performance and music technology/recording, and previously studied composition and percussion at the University of Indianapolis with John Berners and Paul Berns respectively.

Visit mackenziejacoblamont.com for more information. For more recital information, contact FSU's Department of Music at [email protected], 301-687-4109.