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. .
