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 works have been performed in Europe, South America, and throughout the United States at events such as the International Computer Music Conference, SEAMUS national conferences, SCI conferences, Florida Electro-acoustic Music Festivals, Electronic Music Midwest, 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 2006 Minnesota Orchestra Composers' Institute during which the Minnesota Symphony Orchestra presented his piece Surreal Abundance. Dr. Martin's theoretical work includes writings on the music of Magnus Lindberg that focus on the composer's innovative approach to harmonic progression.
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.