Meet the Faculty
Ed martin
(920) 424-7027
martine@uwosh.edu
D.M.A., M.M., B.M.; Dr. Martin is an award-winning composer of instrumental and electro-acoustic music, a theorist, and a music educator. His compositions have received first prize in the 2005 Electro-Acoustic Miniatures International Contest, the 2004 Craig and Janet Swan Composer Prize for orchestra music, the 2004 Tampa Bay Composers' Forum Prize for Excellence in Chamber Music Composition, and the 21st Century Piano Commission Competition at the University of Illinois. His music was also awarded second prize in the 2005 ASCAP/SEAMUS Student Commission Competition and has twice been named a regional winner and national finalist in the SCI/ASCAP Student Composition Commission Competition. His works have received many performances throughout the United States and in Europe and South America at events such as SEAMUS national conferences, SCI conferences, Florida Electro-acoustic Music Festivals, North American Saxophone Alliance conferences, Confluences – Art and Technology at the Edge of the Millennium in Spain, the Soundings Festival in Scotland, Nuclea Musica Nueva de Montevideo in Uruguay, and the International Electro-acoustic Music Festival Santiago de Chile. Additionally, he attended the prestigious 2006Minnesota Orchestra Composers' Institute during which his piece Surreal Abundance was performed in an open reading session by the Minnesota Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Osmo Vänska.
Dr. Martin's theoretical work includes his doctoral dissertation entitled
Harmonic Progression in the Music of Magnus Lindberg, a broad analytical
study of several major works by this influential composer which highlights
his innovative approach to harmonic progression. He is currently writing
several short articles continuing his study of Lindberg's music.
Dr. Martin 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 passionate about
teaching and prior to his appointment as Assistant Professor of Music at
the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, he taught at the University of Illinois
and Illinois Wesleyan University. For more information please visit www.edmartincomposer.com