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Martin Bresnick

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Martin Bresnick
Charles T. Wilson Professor in the Practice of Composition Yale School of Music
Director, New Music Workshop Norfolk Chamber Music Festival
At YSM Since: 1981
Award(s): Yale School of Music Samuel Simons Sanford Medal for distinguished service to music (2019), American Academy of Arts and Letters member (2006), Guggenheim Fellowship (2003), the ASCAP Foundation’s Aaron Copland Prize for teaching (2000), Charles Ives Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (1998), Elise L. Stoeger Prize from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (1996), Rome Prize (1975)

Martin Bresnick

Martin Bresnick was educated at the University of Hartford, Stanford University, and the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna. His principal teachers of composition included György Ligeti, John Chowning, and Gottfried von Einem. Bresnick has taught internationally, including at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester, and the Royal Academy of Music in London, among others. 

Bresnick's compositions, from opera, chamber, and symphonic music to film scores and computer music, are performed throughout the world by leading symphonies, chamber groups, and festival ensembles. His music has been recorded and released by New Focus Recordings, Tall Poppies Records, Starkland Records, Cantaloupe Music, Composers Recordings, Inc., Centaur Records, New World Records, Artifact Music, and Albany Records, and is published by Carl Fischer Music, Bote & Bock, and CommonMuse Music Publishers.

At Yale, Bresnick teaches a studio of graduate students, and his works are often featured on the New Music New Haven concert series. During the summer, he is Director of the New Music Workshop at the Yale Summer School of Music/Norfolk Chamber Music Festival.