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Martin Amlin
Martin Amlin (born June 12, 1953) is an American composer and pianist. He was born in Dallas, Texas. He serves as the Mildred P. Gilfillan Professor of Music and Chair of the Department of
Martin Amlin (born June 12, 1953) is an American composer and pianist. He was born in Dallas, Texas. He serves as the Mildred P. Gilfillan Professor of Music and Chair of the Department of Composition and Theory at the Boston University College of Fine Arts as well as Senior Director of the Boston University Tanglewood Institute Young Artists Composition Program. Career Martin Amlin received Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees and the Performer’s Certificate from the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester. At Eastman he studied piano with Frank Glazer and composition with Joseph Schwantner, Samuel Adler, and Warren Benson. He studied with Nadia Boulanger at the Ecoles d’Art Américaines in Fontainebleau and at the Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris. Amlin has been a resident at Yaddo, MacDowell, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. He has performed as soloist with the Boston Pops Orchestra and has been a rehearsal pianist for the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus. He has appeared on the FleetBoston Celebrity Series and with the M.I.T. Experimental Music Studio. Works Orchestra *Quatrains from the Rubáiyát for soprano
- Era
- Post-War
- Lived
- 1953–present
- From
- United States
- Born in
- Dallas
- Known as
- composer, pianist, music professor, professor of music composition
- Instruments
- piano