Donald Martino

(U.S.A.)

Donald Martino (b. Plainfield, NJ, 1931) began music lessons at nine-learning to play the clarinet, saxophone and oboe-and started composition at 15. He attended Syracuse and Princeton Universities. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, his many awards include two Fulbright Scholarships, three Guggenheim Awards, grants from the Massachusetts Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts, the 1974 Pulitzer Prize in Music for his chamber music work Notturno, First Prize in the 1985 Kennedy Center Friedheim Competition for his String Quartet (1983), and the Boston Symphony's Mark H. Horblit Award (1987).

He has taught at Third Street Music School Settlement in New York, and at Princeton University, Yale University, the Yale Summer School of Music and Art, and at Tanglewood, where he was composer-in-residence; the New England Conservatory of Music, where he was Chairman of the Composition Dept. from 1969-79; Brandeis University, where he was Irving Fine Professor of Music; and at Harvard University, where he is the Walter Bigelow Rosen Professor of Music, Emeritus. Commissions for new works have come from, among others, the Paderewski Fund; the Fromm, Naumburg, Koussevitzky and Coolodge Foundations; the Chicago, Boston and San Francisco Symphonies; and a number of musical societies and organizations performances of Bach Cantatas, seventeenth century motets and contemporary music.

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