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Composers Bureau
Donald Martino
Biography
Donald Martino, born in Plainfield, New Jersey, May 16,1931, began
music lessons at nine - learning to play the clarinet, saxophone,
and oboe - and started composing at 15. He attended Syracuse and
Princeton universities. A member of the American Academy of Arts
and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, his many
awards include two Fulbright
scholarships, three Guggenheim awards, grants from the Massachusetts
Arts Council and the National Endowment
for the Arts, the 1974 Pulitzer
Prize in music for his chamber work Notturno, First Prize in
the 1985 Kennedy Center Friedheim Competition for his String Quartet
(1983), and most recently (1987) the Boston
Symphony's Mark M. Horblit Award. He has taught at the Third
Street Music School Settlement in New York, Princeton University,
Yale University, the Yale Summer School of Music and Art, Tanglewood,
where he was Composer-in-Residence, the New England Conservatory
of Music, where he was chairman of the composition department from
1969-1979, Brandeis University, where he was Irving Fine Professor
of Music, and Harvard University, where he is the Walter Bigelow
Rosen Professor of Music, Emeritus. Commissions for new works have
come from, among others, the Paderewski Fund; the Fromm, Naumburg,
Koussevitzky, and Coolidge Foundations; the Chicago,
Boston, and San
Francisco Symphonies; and a number of musical societies and
organizations. According to the New Grove, "Martino's music has
been characterized as expansive, dense, lucid, dramatic, romantic,
all of which are applicable. But it is his ability...to conjure
up for the listener a world of palpable presences and conceptions...that
seems most remarkable."
Publishers
Dantalian, Inc., 11 Pembroke
Street, Newton, MA 02158-2122, Tel./Fax. (617) 244-7230; McGinnis & Marx, 236 West 26th. St., New York, N.Y. 10001 Tel. (212) 675-1630.
Recordings
Advance, Albany, Centaur,
CRI, Crystal,
Golden Crest, Koch International,
New World, Nonesuch, Ongaku.
- Albany: Notturno,
Pianississimo, Triple Concerto
- Albany: Fantasies
and Impromptus, Twelve Preludes
- Centaur: Fantasies and Impromptus, Pianississimo, Suite in
Old Form
- Centaur: Sonata for Clarinet and piano, Sonata for Violin
and Piano, Trio for Violin, Clarinet and Piano, Twelve Preludes
- CRI: Parisonatina,
Suite of Variations on Medieval Melodies
- CRI: String
Quartet
- CRI American
Masters: Chamber Music of Donald Martino
- CRI: Quodlibets
for Flute Alone. Rachel Rudich. CRI 1012.
- Context Records: Quodlibets II for Flute Alone. Carlton
Vickers. 11012.
- Koch: From
the Other Side, Notturno, Quodlibets II
- New World: Seven Pious Pieces
- New World: A Set for Marimba, Parisonatina, Twelve Preludes,
Canzone e tarantella, A Jazz Set
- New World: Paradiso Choruses, Concerto fo Alto Saxophone
and Orchestra. Students and faculty, New England Conservatory
of Music. 80529-2.
- Ongaku: A Set
for Clarinet
- Perspectives of New Music: Pianississimo
Biographical References
Whos Who in America; Baker's Biographical Dictionary of
Musicians; Contemporary Composers (St. John Press, 1992);
Perspectives of New Music (29: 2, 1991); Groves Dictionary
of Music and AmeriGrove; American Composers (Ewen, 1982);
Dictionary of Contemporary Music (Vinton, 1974)
Selective Compositions
- ORCHESTRAL
- Concerto for Alto Saxophone
and Orchestra
- Concerto for Piano and Orchestra
- Concerto for Violin and Orchestra
- Concerto for violoncello and Orchestra
- Triple Concerto for Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Contrabass
Clarinet and 16 players
- CHORAL
- Paradiso Choruses - Chorus,
Orchestra, Soloists,Tape
- Seven Pious Pieces - Chorus A Cappella
- The White Island - Chorus and Chamber Orchestra
- VOCAL
- From The Bad Child's Book of Beasts - soprano and
piano
- Separate Songs - Soprano and Piano
- CHAMBER MUSIC
- Canzone e Tarantella - Clarinet and cello
- Fantasy Variations - Violin Solo
- From the Other Side
- flute, cello, piano and percussion
- Notturno - flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano,
and percussion. (1974 Pulitzer Prize)
- Parisonatina Al'Dodecafonia - Cello Solo
- Quodlibets II - Flute Solo
- A Set for Clarinet
- Sonata for Clarinet and Piano
- Sonata for Violin and Piano
- String Quartet
- A Suite of Variations on Medieval Melodies - Cello
Solo
- Three Sad Songs - Viola and Piano
- Trio for Violin, Clarinet and Piano
- Variazioni sopra un Soggetto Cavato - Clarinet solo
- PIANO
Further Information:
Contact Information
Lora Harvey, Administrator, Dantalian,
Inc.
11 Pembroke St.
Newton, MA 02158
Phone/Fax: 617/244-7230.
E-mail: dantinfo@dantalian.com
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