Martin Amlin
Head of Composition and Theory Department; Associate Professor of Music
Chairman, Composition and Theory. BM, Southern Methodist University; MM, DMA, Performer’s Certificate, Eastman School of Music. Dr. Amlin studied with Nadia Boulanger at Écoles d’Art Américaines in Fontainebleau and École Normale de Musique in Paris. He received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Tanglewood Music Center, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Massachusetts Artists Foundation, the St. Botolph Club Foundation, and the Massachusetts Council for the Arts. He was a recipient of an ASCAP Grant to Young Composers and has received many ASCAPlus Awards. He has been a resident at Yaddo, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the MacDowell Colony, where he was named a Norlin Fellow. Professor Amlin’s compositions have been performed throughout the world and are published by the Theodore Presser Company. He has also appeared as soloist with the Boston Pops Orchestra in performances of Mendelssohn’s Piano Concerto No. 1 and Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, and has performed on the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Prelude concerts at both Symphony Hall and Tanglewood. He has also appeared on the FleetBoston Celebrity Series and has been pianist for the MIT Experimental Music Studio. He has often been heard live on Boston’s WGBH radio station as both performer and composer, and has given the premiere of many new pieces, including works by Lukas Foss, George Perle, Stefan Kaske, and Armand Qualliotine. Martin Amlin has recordings on the Albany, Ashmont Music, Centaur, Crystal, Folkways, Hyperion, Koch International, Opus One, Titanic, and Wergo labels.