MARTIN AMLIN
MARTIN AMLIN
Composer and pianist Martin Amlin has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Tanglewood Music Center, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Massachusetts Artists Foundation, the St. Botolph Club Foundation, and the Massachusetts Council for the Arts. He was a recipient of an ASCAP Grant to Young Composers and has received many ASCAPlus Awards. He has been a resident at Yaddo, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the MacDowell Colony, where he was named a Norlin Fellow.
Much of his music is characterized by a pungent tonality and energetic rhythms. Sonata for Piccolo and Piano and Sonata No. 2 for Flute and Piano have each won the National Flute Association's Newly Published Music Competition. Concerto for Piccolo and Orchestra was premiered by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, and he has had performances of his music by the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, the John Oliver Chorale, the Back Bay Chorale, the Webster Trio, and the American Vocal Arts Quintet. He has had commissions from the Seattle Flute Society, Pacific Serenades, the Chicago Flute Club, ALEA III, the James Pappoutsakis memorial flute competition, pianist Andrew Willis, and clarinetist Michael Webster.
Martin Amlin is Chairman of the Department of Composition and Theory at Boston University and Director of the Young Artists Composition Program at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute. He is also recipient of Boston University's Kahn Award for his Piano Sonata No. 7. He studied with Nadia Boulanger at the Ecoles d'Art Américaines in Fontainebleau and the Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris, and received masters and doctoral degrees as well as the Performer's Certificate from the Eastman School of Music. Mr. Amlin has appeared as soloist with the Boston Pops Orchestra in performances of Mendelssohn's Piano Concerto No. 1 and Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, and has performed on the Boston Symphony Orchestra's Prelude concerts at both Symphony Hall and Tanglewood. He has also appeared on the FleetBoston Celebrity Series and has been pianist for the M.I.T. Experimental Music Studio and the New England Ragtime Ensemble. He has often been heard live on Boston's WGBH radio station as both performer and composer, and has given the world premiere of many new pieces.
Martin Amlin has recordings on the Albany, Ashmont Music, Centaur, Crystal, Folkways, Hyperion, Koch International, Opus One, Titanic, and Wergo labels.
For more information, please see Mr. Amlin’s personal web page at www.martinamlin.com.
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 | ASCAP Grant to Young Composers | | ASCAP Standard Awards | | Kahn Award, Boston University | | Massachusetts Artists Foundation grant | | Massachusetts Council for the Arts grant | | Massachusetts Cultural Council grant | | National Endowment for the Arts Composer Fellowship | | Norlin Fellow, The MacDowell Colony | | St. Botolph Club Foundation grant | | Tanglewood Music Center Fellowships, four summers | | Winner, Newly-published Music Competition, National Flute Association |
Atlantic Serenade for Flute, Clarinet, Cello, and Piano
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Eight Variations for Piano
Additional Information: Published: Custom Print 110-41765
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Encomium for Viola and Harp (2004) -- 5'
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Endless Ways for Two Pianos
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Ephemeropterae I and II for Piccolo solo (2004) -- 3'
Additional Information: Published: 114-41333
Intrada for Two Flutes and Piano (2002) -- 4'
Published: #114-41204
Morceau de Concours for Flute and Piano
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Moto Perpetuo for String Quartet (2006) -- 5'
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Piano Sonata No. 6
Additional Information: Published: Custom Print 110-41764
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Piano Sonata No. 7 (1999) -- 13'
Published: #410-41332
Premiere Information: Andrew Willis, piano, Focus on Piano Literature symposium, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, June 8, 2000
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Sonata for Clarinet and Piano (2001) -- 18'
Published: #114-41150
Commission Information: Michael Webster
Premiere Information: Michael Webster, clarinet, and Robert Moeling, piano, Shepherd School of Music, Rice University, Houston, TX, September 14, 2001
Sonata for Flute and Piano (1987) -- 15'
Published: #114-40886
Premiere Information: Douglas Worthen, flute and Martin Amlin, piano, Bates College, Lewiston, ME, May 15, 1987
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Sonata for Piccolo and Piano (1997) -- 20'
Published: #114-40911
Premiere Information: Zart Dombourian-Eby, piccolo and Amlin, piano, National Flute Association Convention, Chicago, IL, August 15, 1997
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Sonatina Piccola for Piccolo and Piano (1999) -- 5'
Published: #114-41037
Premiere Information: Zart Dombourian-Eby, piccolo and Amlin, piano, National Flute Association Convention, Atlanta, GA, August 20, 1999
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Three Alphabetudes for Piano Solo (2005) -- 10'
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Trio Sonatina for Flute, Clarinet and Piano
Published: #114-41028
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A Lasting Spring for Soprano and Piano
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Israfel for Soprano, Flute, Violin, Cello, and Piano (1980) -- 5'
Published: #111-40187
Commission Information: Written for the Phillips Exeter Academy Bicentennial, 1980-1981
Available Separately:Set of parts (#111-40187P)
Full Score - Large (#111-40187S)
Lullaby for Tenor and Piano
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Passions of Singleness for Mezzo-soprano, Viola, Vibraphone, and Harp
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Seven Songs for Mezzo-soprano and Piano
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The Heavenly Feast for Soprano and Piano
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The Three Marias for Soprano and Piano
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Three Madrigals for Mixed Chorus and Two Pianos
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Time's Caravan for Mixed Chorus and Double String Quintet (2000) -- 11' 30"
SATB; 4Vln., 2Vla., 2Vcl., 2Cb.
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Premiere Information: John Oliver Chorale and Orchestra, Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory, Boston, MA, October 28, 1989
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Two Songs on Poems by Anne Fessenden for Soprano, Alto Flute, and Piano (1997-98) -- 8'
Published: #111-40183
Premiere Information: Mimmi Fulmer, soprano, Leone Buyse, alto flute and Amlin, piano, New York City Flute Club, CAMI Hall, January 25, 1998
Concerto for Piccolo and Orchestra (1998-99) -- 20'
Picc. Solo; 2 2 2 2 - 2 2(Tpt in C) 2 0; 2Perc. Str.
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Premiere Information: Members of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Carl Hall, piccolo, National Flute Association Convention, Atlanta, GA, August 21, 1999
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Available Separately:Piano Reduction (#114-41030)
Full Score - Large (#416-41219S)
Quatrains from the Rubáiyát for Soprano and Chamber Orchestra
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Shadowdance for Orchestra
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Three Songs of Nature for bass-baritone and chamber orchestra (2008) -- 10'
Premiere Information: 13th April, 2008, James Demler, baritone, Na Sun, violin, Boston University Chamber Orchestra, Richard Cornell, conductor, Town Hall, New York, NY
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"fluent, fresh, vital, sensuous, poetic… All of these pieces have lots of energy, lots of ideas…"-American Record Guide"He delights in tripping up one's metrical expectations through unexpected irregularity of meter or sudden syncopated accents… harmonically rich in a basically tonal idiom... If this is conservatism, it doesn't really advertise itself as such… his freely rhapsodic treatment of his material, and the hidden mechanisms (including elements of dodecaphony, not rigidly adhered to) speaks of the eclectism of our times."-Records International Catalogue"…He likes technical achievements and games--fugues; inversions; retrogrades; rhythmic complexities and quirks; 12-tone rows that don't sound like tone rows; hidden references to Bach, Beethoven, and "Happy Birthday"; variations that lack a theme, so all of them in a set are in effect variations on one another. He likes to bend the rules…Some of these games are part of the fun…Amlin uses them to create powerful coloristic and emotional effects. All the music --brisk and reflective--is purposeful and effective, and idiomatic both for the hand and for the instrument."-Richard Dyer, The Boston Globe
"The highlight of the convention for piccoloists was the world premiere of Martin Amlin’s Concerto for Piccolo and Orchestra…Divided into five movements, the concerto’s brilliant orchestration creates excitement without ever over-balancing the piccolo."-Tammy Kirk, Flute Talk
"Amlin has found an appropriately luscious style that is at once assured and unstable, unstable enough to depict the uncertainties of life the verses are concerned with, and flexible enough to respond immediately and imaginatively to the wide-ranging imagery of the text…The Chorale obviously loves singing it; so will every other suitably equipped chorus in the land - this piece is destined for long popularity."-Richard Dyer, Boston Globe
"…it sets the tone of brightness, accessibility, and rhythmic drive that is characteristic of the entire compact disc. The harmonic language is fairly ’conservative modern,’ and contrapuntal dialogue is common."-Laurel Littrell, American Music"…an engaging work with a strong rhythmic profile and a lyrical impulse, in which the flute and piano lines are marvelously integrated."-Allan Kozinn, New York Times
"Martin Amlin’s delicate harmonic shadings linger in the mind long after the recording finishes."-American Record Guide"This work is a stunning showcase for both [piccolo and piano]. Through its five movements the work explores the piccolo range with lyrical expressiveness and wild agility, and the conversation between piccolo and piano is exquisite."-Zart Dombourian-Eby, Flute Talk
"Martin Amlin’s Trio Sonatina invested a Rhapsody, Scherzo, Interlude, and Aria with innumerable artful devices to draw you in - a silky shimmer at the start, a cat-and-mouse ferocity in the quick music...a melodic skeleton with drop-dead harmonic tints"-The Boston Globe"…an astonishing mix of neoclassical and neoromantic elements."-Mark Williams, Rochester Times-Union
"…clever and sharply contrasted minature variants… on a slow chorale…"-American Record Guide
"The texture, tempo, rhythm, and atonal nature of this piece is advanced and exciting."-Clavier
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