Meet the Faculty
Ed martin
(920) 424-7027
martine@uwosh.edu
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 scholarly work includes writings on contemporary composer Magnus Lindberg.
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. For more information please visit www.edmartincomposer.com.
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