Martha Callison Horst
Martha Callison Horst | |
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Education | Musical career |
Genres | Classical |
Occupation(s) | composer |
Labels | Azica, SNOtone |
Martha Callison Horst is an American composer. Her music has been performed by Earplay, Alea III, the Empyrean Ensemble, the Fromm Players, Left Coast Ensemble,[1] Dal Niente, Composers, Inc., members of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, the Chicago Composers Consortium,[2] and Music Beyond Performance: SoundImageSound V.[3] Horst studied composition at Stanford University and the University of California, Davis.[4] She is currently Professor of Composition and Music Theory in the College of Fine Arts at Illinois State University.[5]
Partial list of works
- Adagio for orchestra[6]
- Cloister Songs[7]
- Cloud Gate[8]
- Creature Studies[9]
- Giant Variations[10]
- Night Songs[11]
- Sonata No. 1 for piano[12][13]
- Straussian Landscapes[14][15][16]
- Threads
- Three Meditations on Van Gogh
- Widening Gyre
Discography
'''Approaching''' (Symphony Number One)
- Released: November 2017
- Format: CD
- Label: SNOtone ST04
- Writers: Martha Callison Horst, Hangrui Zhang, Nicholas Bentz
- Producer: Dan Rorke, Jordan Randall Smith
- Tracks: “Straussian Landscapes”, “Baltimore Prelude”, “Approaching Eternity”
Reform: Solo Piano (Lara Downes)
- Released: 2003
- Format: CD
- Label: Azica Records 71213
- Writers: Martha Callison Horst, Yu-Hui Chang, Andrew Frank, Lowell Liebermann, Pablo Ortiz and Stephen Paulus
- Tracks: “Sonata No. 1 for piano”,[17]
Chamber music of women composers. Volume 1.[18] (Left Coast Chamber Ensemble)
- Released: 1997
- Format: Cassette
- Writers: Martha Callison Horst, Deborah H Kavasch, Joan Tower, Jennifer Higdon, Chen Yi
- Tracks: “Turning points”, “Island prelude”, “Abelard”, “Rapid fire”, Sprout”, “Stonewall”, “Fusion”, “Quixotic callings”
References
- ^ San Francisco Bay Guardian (1999). San Francisco Bay Guardian Issue 34.32.
- ^ "History | c3 composers". c3composers.org. Retrieved 2018-01-09.
- ^ Nordschow, Randy (2008-01-15). "Love is in the Air". NewMusicBox. Retrieved 2018-01-09.
- ^ "Martha Callison Horst | The Program in Science, Technology, and Society". sts.stanford.edu. Archived from the original on 2018-05-05. Retrieved 2018-05-05.
- ^ https://finearts.illinoisstate.edu/faculty-staff/#tabs-accord-accordion6
- ^ OCLC 64065078
- ^ Dyer, Richard. "Festival spotlights female composers - The Boston Globe". archive.boston.com. Retrieved 2018-01-09.
- ^ Witczak, Karen (April 19, 2017). "Martha Horst's Orchestral Palindrome". Puzzle Canon. Retrieved 2018-01-09.
- ^ "Earplay Archives" (PDF). 2008.
- ^ "New Music Café Presents a Night of Diverse Performances". www.iwu.edu. Retrieved 2018-01-09.
- ^ "Entries | Contemporary Music Index". Contemporary Music Archive. Retrieved 2018-01-09.
- ^ "WQXR - New York's Classical Music Radio Station". WQXR. Retrieved 2018-01-09.
- ^ "Choice Classical CDs". www.angelfire.com. Retrieved 2018-01-09.
- ^ "Rep Hub: Martha Horst, Straussian Landscapes". Symphony Number One. Retrieved 2018-01-07.
- ^ "Symphony Number One Opened September 23 and 24 with Wealth of Winds". The Peabody Post. 2016-10-25. Retrieved 2018-01-09.
- ^ Desk, BWW News. "SNO's 4th Album APPROACHING Features 80 Minutes Of New Music". Retrieved 2018-01-09.
- ^ OCLC 789127856
- ^ OCLC 325229579
External links
- Official website
- Martha Horst discography at Discogs
- Martha Callison Horst at AllMusic
- Martha Horst on iTunes
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