Martin Amlin is an American composer and pianist. He serves as professor of music and chair of the Department of Composition and Theory at the Boston University College of Fine Arts as well as the director of the Boston University Tanglewood Institute Young Artists Composition Program. He received M.M. and D.M.A. degrees and the Performer's Certificate from the Eastman School of Music. 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, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and MacDowell. He has performed as soloist with the Boston Pops Orchestra and is 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. He has recorded for the Albany, Ashmont Music, Centaur, Crystal, Hyperion, Koch International, MSR Classics, and Wergo labels, and his music is published by the Theodore Presser Company.
Martin Amlin
Studios
New Jersey
Martin Amlin worked in the New Jersey studio.
The yellow clapboard New Jersey Studio, located on a grassy, sloping site, was funded by the New Jersey Federation of Women’s Clubs and built as an exact replica of Monday Music Studio (1913). The studio’s porch rests on fieldstone piers that increase in height as the ground slopes to the west. Like Monday Music Studio, New Jersey…