Ed Martin is an award-winning composer of instrumental and electro-acoustic music that has been performed in Asia, Europe, South America, and throughout the U.S. His music has been heard at the World Saxophone Congress, International Computer Music Conferences, the Seoul International Computer Music Festival, Confluences – Art and Technology at the Edge of the Millennium in Spain, the Soundings Festival in Scotland, Nuclea Musica Nueva de Montevideo in Uruguay, the International Electroacoustic Music Festival Santiago de Chile, International Computer Music Conferences, SEAMUS conferences, SCI conferences, the New York Electronic Music Festival, Electronic Music Midwest, Florida Electro-acoustic Music Festivals, and North American Saxophone Alliance conferences. His music
has been performed by ensembles such as the Minnesota Symphony Orchestra (as part of their annual Composers’ Institute), Ear Play, the Empyrean Ensemble, and the University of Illinois Wind Symphony and has received first prize in the 2005 Electro-Acoustic Miniatures International Contest, the 2004 Craig and Janet Swan Composer Prize for orchestra music, and the 2004 Tampa Bay Composers’ Forum Prize. His music appears on several recordings including the Society for Electroacoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS) CD Series No. 16.
Martin has written on harmonic progression in the music of Finnish composer Magnus Lindberg, specifically focusing on the composer’s innovations to the traditional chaconne technique in his recent work. His paper “Harmonic Progression in Magnus Lindberg’s Twine” will be published in Music Theory Online in 2010.
Martin, originally from Bethlehem, PA, holds degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (DMA), University of Texas at Austin (MM), and the University of Florida (BM). He has studied composition and electronic music with Scott Wyatt, Stephen Taylor, Guy Garnett, Dan Welcher, Donald Grantham, Russell Pinkston, Steven Montague, James Paul Sain, and Budd Udell. He is Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh and has also taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Illinois Wesleyan University.
Abel Ramirez, Joseph Turrin, Roby George, Ed Martin after the 11/20/2008 University of Illinois Wind Symphony on which Voices Rising was premiered.
With composer Kyong Mee Choi and saxophonist Ida Toninato at ICMC 2009 in Montreal where Ida performed Flurry for soprano saxophone and electronics.
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