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May 2011
Dear Composers,
Welcome to the Boston University Tanglewood Institute's Young Artists Composition Program! For a short six weeks you will work hard and experience a great deal of music. My assistant Justin Casinghino and I will do our best to provide you with a challenging and rewarding summer.
On Sunday, August 7th at 7 p.m. we will present a concert of your works at the West Street Theater. In addition to this, we will have reading and recording sessions each week with a different instrument or ensemble. There will be classes in ear-training and analysis and events with visiting composers and with the Tanglewood Music Center's fellowship composers. At some of the classes we will share our own music, so be sure to bring scores and CDs of your works to present.
As a student at BUTI, you will have free access to concerts and rehearsals of the Tanglewood Music Center and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. There will be many opportunities throughout the summer to hear a great variety of pieces and performances.
We will have a computer with Sibelius software and networked printing for making scores and parts. However, I strongly urge you to bring your own laptop computer with notation software (preferably the latest version of Sibelius) installed. Please also bring manuscript paper for sketching and for musicianship classes. You will want an umbrella, sunscreen, and insect repellent, and be sure to bring a few warm clothes which you may need for some evenings in the Berkshires, particularly in August.
I'm looking forward to meeting all of you and to an exciting and productive summer!
Sincerely,
Martin Amlin Director, Young Artists Composition Program Associate Professor Chair, Department of Composition and Theory School of Music College of Fine Arts Boston University
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Martin Amlin is Associate Professor and Chairman of the Department of Composition and Theory in the College of Fine Arts at Boston University. His compositions have been performed throughout the world and are published by the Theodore Presser Company. He has won the National Flute Association’s newly-published music awards for both Sonata for Piccolo and Piano and Sonata No. 2 for Flute and Piano. A versatile performer, Mr. Amlin has appeared many times as piano soloist with the Boston Pops Orchestra and has been featured on the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Prelude concerts at both Symphony Hall and at Tanglewood. He has been pianist for the M.I.T. Experimental Music Studio, the New England Ragtime Ensemble, the American Vocal Arts Quintet, and the FleetBoston Celebrity Series. He has given the world premieres of many new works and has often performed live on Boston’s WGBH radio station. Martin Amlin studied in Fontainebleau and Paris with Nadia Boulanger and received his masters and doctoral degrees as well as the Performer's Certificate from the Eastman School of Music. He is the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, ASCAP, the Massachusetts Artists Foundation, the St. Botolph Club Foundation, and the Massachusetts Council for the Arts. His recordings as both pianist and composer may be heard on the Albany, Ashmont Music, Centaur, Crystal, Hyperion, MSR Classics, and Wergo labels. For more information, please visit www.martinamlin.com.
Justin Casinghino has studied composition with Gunther Schuller, Lukas Foss, Theodore Antoniou, Paul Brust, David Macbride, Steven Gryc, Ken Steen, and Robert Carl, and has studied saxophone under jazz legend Jackie McLean. His composition students have won several awards, including the ASCAP Young Composer’s Award and several Downbeat Awards, and have had commissions and performances by the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra and the Boston Pops. Mr. Casinghino’s own music has been premiered by such groups as the Longy Chamber Orchestra, the Longitude New Music Ensemble, and the Contemporary Players New Music Ensemble, and has been featured in master classes given by George Crumb and Lukas Foss. He teaches composition, theory, and electronic music at all levels, and has written several books for the company DayJams, for which he is a consulting director. He performs on saxophones, piano, and organ, and is a vocalist with several jazz, blues, and rock bands in the New England area. Mr. Casinghino will receive his Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Composition from Boston University.