Laurie San Martin
 lasanmartin@ucdavis.edu 530.752.4492 15 Old Firehouse Office Hours M 10-11, W 2-3 PM |
American composer Laurie San Martin writes chamber and orchestral music. She enjoys writing incidental music for video, dance, and theater. Recently she collaborated with Korean gayageum virtuoso Yi Ji-Young and the Lydian String Quartet. This experience has opened new creative avenues, including an upcoming chamber work for the CrossSound Festival in Alaska which uses Western and Korean instruments, and a new work for Korean daegeum virtuoso Jeong-Seung Kim. She also recently received a commission from the Jebediah Foundation to write a new work for the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players as part of their TenFourteen Project of ten new commissions in 2014-15. Currently, she is completing an operatic work for soprano Haleh Abghari with a set design by artist Dana Harel that will be performed this April, 2012 in the Mondavi Theater (Davis, CA) and at Montalvo Arts Center (Saratoga, CA). This work was awarded a Fromm Music Foundation commission.
Laurie has worked with many accomplished ensembles such as Speculum Musicae, eighth blackbird, San Francisco Chamber Orchestra, the Lydian Quartet, the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, Washington Square Contemporary Chamber Players, Earplay and the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble. She has received awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard, the Jebediah Foundation, the League of Composers-ISCM, the International Alliance for Women in Music, the Margaret Blackwell Memorial Prize in Composition, and the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer’s Award. As a composition fellow, she has attended the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Montalvo, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Norfolk Contemporary Chamber Music Festival, and the Composers Conference at Wellesley College. Laurie holds a PhD from Brandeis University in Theory and Composition. She has taught at Clark University and is currently Associate Professor of music at the University of California, Davis where she enjoys wearing many hats—she is often found performing student works (as clarinetist or conductor), organizing arts events (as the faculty assistant to the Davis Humanities Institute) and promoting contemporary music (as an associate of the Empyrean Ensemble). Her music can be found on Left Coast Chamber Ensemble’s “San Francisco Premieres” CD, released in 2005 and on “Tangos for Piano” the Raviello label and performed by Amy Briggs. |
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