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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Recent News
My article “Harmonic Progression in Magnus Lindberg’s Twine” will be published in Music Theory Online in 2010.
Fall 2010 Fanfares from Three Pieces for Piano will receive multiple performances on a Wisconsin tour by pianist Jeri-Mae G. Astolfi.
6.2010 Flurry for soprano saxophone and electro-acoustic music will be performed by saxophonist Ida Toninato in Montreal, Canada.
5.3.2010 Flurry for soprano saxophone and electro-acoustic music will be performed on the ISCM World Music Days by saxophonist Michael Duke 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 .
10.10, 10.12, 10.14
Flurry and Apparitions
were performed by
saxophonist Michael
Holmes at UW
Oshkosh, Lawrence
Conservatory, and the
University of Illinois.
10.16.2009 Stir was
performed by the
Fresno State University
Graduate Saxophone Quartet as part of the Fresno New Music Festival.
10.9.2009 Three Pieces for Piano, mov. I Fanfares was performed by pianist Jeri-Mae G. Astolfi at the 2009 Society of Composers, Inc. Region V Conference.
9.26.2009 Trio for Flute, Cello, and Piano was performed by Earplay in San Francisco at the Chamber Music Day.
8.16.2009 Flurry was performed at the International Computer Music Conference in Montreal by saxophonist Ida Toninato.
7.11.2009 Apparitions was performed by saxophonist Michael Bovenzi in Bangkok, Thailand at the World Saxophone Congress.
5.28.2009 Awakening commissioned by Debra Richtmeyer and the Univ. of Illinois Saxophone Ensemble was recorded in Champaign, IL.
4.2.2009 Time Passed was played at the New York City Electronic Music Festival.
3/2009-4/2009 Apparitions was performed multiple times by saxophonist Eric Honour as part of a tour of the US and Europe of new music for saxophone and electronics.
