Ed Martin is an award-winning composer of instrumental and electronic music that has been performed in Asia, Europe, South America, and throughout the United States.  In addition to composing he has written on the music of Finnish composer Magnus Lindberg and is currently Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh where he teaches composition, music theory, and aural skills, and administers the UW Oshkosh Electronic Music Studio.  Please explore this website to learn more. http://www.fimic.fi/fimic/fimic.nsf/mainframe?readform&466971D7431D70BAC22566A500261220http://www.uwosh.edu/http://edmartincomposer.com/UWOEMS.htmlshapeimage_1_link_0shapeimage_1_link_1shapeimage_1_link_2
Voices Rising (2007) University of Illinois Wind Symphony, Roby George, dir.
Trio for Flute, Cello, and Piano (2008) members of the Empyrean Ensemble
Recent Compositions

          Awakening for saxophone choir (2009)

    Trio for Flute, Cello, and Piano (2008)

     Skipping Stones for solo vibraphone (2008)

    Timed Passed, electro-acoustic music (2008)

    Voices Rising for wind ensemble (2007)


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Writings and Research

 Ed Martin has written on harmonic progression in the music of Finnish composer Magnus Lindberg.   Specifically his work focuses on Lindberg’s innovations to the traditional technique of chaconne in works such as Twine for solo piano, Kinetics for orchestra, and Fresco for orchestra.

Harmonic Progression in the Music of Magnus Lindberg. DMA dissertation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Fall 2005).
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Recent Recordings
 
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Time Passed (2008) 2-channel fixed media
 
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10.31.2011 Awakening for saxophone choir was performed by the Sydney Conservatorium Saxophone Choir directed by Michael Duke.
 
10.29.2011 Awakening for orchestra was premiered by the UW Oshkosh Symphony Orchestra directed by Andre Gaskins.
 
10.16.2011 Enchanted Falls was performed by the Lawrence Conservatory Symphonic Band directed by Andrew Mast.
 
8.2011 Skipping Stones for vibraphone was awarded First Place in the Percussive Arts Society Composition Contest: Unaccompanied Vibraphone Category.  It will be featured in the listening room at PASIC 2011 and in an article in an upcoming issue of Percussive Notes.
 
8.2011  Saxophonist Eric
Honour’s album Phantasm,
which includes his recording
of Apparitions,was released
by Parma Recordings
(Ravello Records).
 
5.7.2011 Enchanted Falls was performed by the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh Wind Symphony directed by Rob McWilliams.
 
4.30.2011 Skipping Stones for vibraphone was named a winner in the Percussive Arts Society Illinois Chapter Composition Contest and premiered at the ILPAS Day of Percussion by Brett Baxter.
 
4.18-4.19.2011 I was a featured guest composer at the Palm Beach Atlantic University’s New Music 11 contemporary music series.  Imperfect Circle, Soar, Apparitions, and Time Passed were performed.
 
1.22.2011 Drift (electronic music) was presented at the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the US National Conference.
 
Fall 2010 Fanfares from Three Pieces for
Piano received multiple performances on a Wisconsin tour by pianist Jeri-Mae G. Astolfi.
 
11.17.2010 Presented
the third annual UW
Oshkosh Wired concert
featuring music
performed
by UW Oshkosh faculty.
 
11.13.2010 Fanfares
from Three Pieces for
Piano was be performed
at the Society of
Composers, Inc.
National Conference.
 
10.1.2010 Imperfect Circle for solo tambourine was performed at the Society of Composers, Inc. Region V conference.
 
Spring 2010 My article “Harmonic Progression in Magnus Lindberg’s Twine” was published in Music Theory Online 16.1 (2010).
 
5.3.2010 Flurry for soprano saxophone and electro-acoustic music was performed at the ISCM World Music Days by saxophonist Christina Leonard in Sydney, Australia.
 
4.8.2010 Time Passed, 2-channel electro-acoustic music, will be performed at the SEAMUS National Conference at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota.
 
2.23.2010 Enchanted Falls will be performed by the University of Evansville Wind Ensemble, Ken Steinsultz, dir.
 
11.2009 Awakening for
saxophone choir and
Flurry for soprano saxo-
phone and electro-
acoustic music released
by Mark Records on
World Without Words:
Debra Richtmeyer and
the University of Illinois Saxophone Studio .
 
 
Awakening and Flurry, World Without Words: Debra Richtmeyer and the University of Illinois Saxophone Studio.   Mark Records.  (2009)
 
Time Passed. University of Illinois Experimental Music Studio 50th Anniversary. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2009)
 
  
Flurry. Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS) CD Series No. 16. (2007)
 
Drift. 3rd International Contest for Electroacoustic Miniatures,  Confluencias: Art and Technology at the Edge of the Millenium.(2005)
 
Apparitions. Wavefields, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Experimental Music Studios.(2005)
Apparitions.  Phantasm, Eric Honour, Saxophone.   Parma Records (Ravello Records).  (2011)
 
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