Chamber Music Piano,
Trumpet
SKU:
PR.114419070
Composed
by Martin Amlin. With
Standard notation. 20+16
pages. Duration 9
minutes. Theodore Presser
Company #114-41907.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.114419070).
ISBN
9781491113493. UPC:
680160671540. 9 x 12
inches.
Martin
Amlin’s first recital
work for Trumpet and
Piano brings all the
iridescent excitement
that has intrigued other
performers. Composed for
his renowned colleague
Terry Everson, Amlin’s
sonata pours new wine
into old bottles with its
three movements titled:
1. Invention, 2.
Chaconne, and 3. Moto
Perpetuo. The publication
provides solo parts for
both C and E-flat
Trumpet. Composer and
pianist Martin Amlin has
received grants from the
National Endowment for
the Arts, Tanglewood
Music Center,
Massachusetts Cultural
Council, Massachusetts
Artists Foundation, 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 Amlin’s
music is characterized by
a pungent tonality and
energetic rhythms. His
Sonata for Piccolo and
Piano and Sonata No. 2
for Flute and Piano both
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,
Tanglewood Festival
Chorus, John Oliver
Chorale, Back Bay
Chorale, 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 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 world premieres of
many new works.Martin
Amlin has recordings on
the Albany, Ashmont
Music, Centaur, Crystal,
Folkways, Hyperion, Koch
International, Opus One,
Titanic, and Wergo
labels. .
