Theresa Martin | Biography

Theresa Martin
Composer

Biography

Theresa Martin (b. 1979) is a composer of energetic, melodious, and rhythmically driven music and often draws her inspiration from literature, images, nature, and personal experiences. Her most recently composed orchestral works include City of Ambition for full orchestra, inspired by historic photographs of New York City, and Dark Life of the Night Girl for narrator and orchestra, based on a text by MacArthur award-winning author Thylias Moss. She enjoys writing chamber music, and, given her expertise in clarinet performance, is frequently commissioned to write for the instrument. Her two most recent clarinet duets include Live Wire and Fire and Ice, which were both premiered at music festivals this summer.

Dr. Martin’s music has been heard throughout the U.S., and has been performed in Canada, Great Britain, Sweden and China. She has been commissioned by clarinetists Robert Spring, Anne Watson, Yenting Chuang, Wesley Ferreira, and Andrew Hudson, as well as tuba player Sam Pilafian, the Barnett Foundation of Chicago, and the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra. Her music has been recognized by the American Composer’s Forum (2004), the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer's Competition (2005), and NACUSA Young Composer’s Competition (2006), and has been performed at the International Clarinet Association’s “Clarinetfest” (2007-08, 2010), Aspen Music Festival (2007), Midwest Composer’s Symposiums (2006-07), Society of Composers National Conferences in Texas, Arizona, and West Virginia (2005-06), and the American Composer’s Alliance Summer Music Festival in New York (2004).
Studying both composition and clarinet performance, she completed her DMA in composition at the University of Michigan, where she studied composition with Michael Daugherty, William Bolcom, and Evan Chambers and clarinet with Deborah Chodacki. She received two masters degrees from Arizona State University in 2004, studying composition with Randall Shinn, James DeMars, Rodney Rogers, and Jody Rockmaker and clarinet with Robert Spring. She currently resides in Appleton, WI with her husband Josh and her son, Aidan.

Theresa Martin Composer



Biography Theresa Martin (b. 1979) is a composer of energetic, melodious, and rhythmically driven music and often draws her inspiration from literature, images, nature, and personal experiences. Her most recently composed orchestral works include City of Ambition for full orchestra, inspired by historic photographs of New York City, and Dark Life of the Night Girl for narrator and orchestra, based on a text by MacArthur award-winning author Thylias Moss. She enjoys writing chamber music, and, given her expertise in clarinet performance, is frequently commissioned to write for the instrument. Her two most recent clarinet duets include Live Wire and Fire and Ice, which were both premiered at music festivals this summer. Dr. Martin’s music has been heard throughout the U.S., and has been performed in Canada, Great Britain, Sweden and China. She has been commissioned by clarinetists Robert Spring, Anne Watson, Yenting Chuang, Wesley Ferreira, and Andrew Hudson, as well as tuba player Sam Pilafian, the Barnett Foundation of Chicago, and the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra. Her music has been recognized by the American Composer’s Forum (2004), the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer's Competition (2005), and NACUSA Young Composer’s Competition (2006), and has been performed at the International Clarinet Association’s “Clarinetfest” (2007-08, 2010), Aspen Music Festival (2007), Midwest Composer’s Symposiums (2006-07), Society of Composers National Conferences in Texas, Arizona, and West Virginia (2005-06), and the American Composer’s Alliance Summer Music Festival in New York (2004). Studying both composition and clarinet performance, she completed her DMA in composition at the University of Michigan, where she studied composition with Michael Daugherty, William Bolcom, and Evan Chambers and clarinet with Deborah Chodacki. She received two masters degrees from Arizona State University in 2004, studying composition with Randall Shinn, James DeMars, Rodney Rogers, and Jody Rockmaker and clarinet with Robert Spring. She currently resides in Appleton, WI with her husband Josh and her son, Aidan.