Promethean Studios

Promethean Studios offers music lessons for guitar, piano, voice, bass, sax, flute, oboe, ukulele, mandolin, songwriting, and composition. We offer bands (you get to play in a band) and music seminars (you get to learn about music and your instrument) for students and non-students. Mark Black also provides awesome live music and party entertainment at small to large venues. These performances are an amazing mix of styles, classic rock to classic jazz to R&B to modern pop and country - and as Mark is a multi-instrumentalist and vocalist, there's never a dull moment, or one you won't love. Mark Black is a 5 star rated teacher and has taught well over 2500 students privately. He’s been teaching here in Plano and Richardson since 1994. Half of our students are adults and ½ are children and teens. If you don’t have time for the drive, we also offer wonderful live, online lessons. Your lessons will be customized to your goals, your music, your abilities, and your personality. You’re going to love your lessons and save years of wasted effort. Strange to say, most teachers don’t actually believe you can learn to play or sing well, even though they’re teaching you. Mark believes 99.9% of students can make music better than they ever imagined. We think loving your lessons is crucial to learning, so we want them to be a source of fun and excitement, for ALL students. At the same time, if you’re looking to excel in music, maybe even make music your life, or nail an audition or get into music school, this is definitely the place for you. Mark attended Loyola University in New Orleans as a double major in oboe performance and music composition/theory. He was a member of the Loyola Orchestra, Loyola Jazz Band, Loyola Chorale, and the Loyola Band, as well as in various woodwind quintets. He traveled for a year with the contemporary Christian music group Majesty, has led worship for over 30 years, and spent 14 years as a music director of various churches. He studied privately with Fred Korman, Dr. Pat McCarty, Helen Erb, Dr. William Horne, Michael Carubba, Dr. Thomas West, and others, and has performed in rock, pop, classical, Christian, and jazz ensembles and as a soloist in hundreds of performances. He’s taught hundreds of music seminars and worship seminars. His musical skills include professional performance in guitar, voice, sax, piano, keyboards, bass, flute, oboe, and other instruments, as well as professional composition, arranging, and orchestration. Promethean Studios: Have fun. Be awesome.TM