Laurie San Martin
 lasanmartin@ucdavis.edu 530.752.4492 15 Old Firehouse Office Hours TBD |
Laurie San Martin is a faculty member in the UC Davis Music Department where she teaches music theory and composition and co-directs the Empyrean Ensemble. A native of Berkeley, she holds degrees from UC Davis, UC Berkeley and Brandeis University where she studied composition, clarinet, and conducting. Her principal teachers include Ross Bauer, Martin Boykan, Eric Chasalow, David Rakowski, Olly Wilson and Yehudi Wyner. Her music has been performed in the US and in Italy by such ensembles as Speculum Musicae, eighth blackbird, EARPLAY, the Warebrook Contemporary Music Festival, the Left Coast Ensemble, and the SF Contemporary Music Players. She has received awards from the International Alliance for Women in Music, the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer’s Awards, the Margaret Blackwell Memorial Prize in Composition and a Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her music includes solo, chamber and orchestral music, and she has collaborated with other artists in multimedia and video. Most recently she has enjoyed writing for virtuoso soloists including percussionist Chris Froh and pianists Marilyn Nonken, Lara Downes, Karen Rosenak and Amy Dissanayake and cellist David Russell who recently premiered her new Cello Concerto with the UC Davis Symphony Orchestra. Currently, she is working on new pieces for the Left Coast Ensemble (for premiere in May, 2008), the Empyrean Ensemble (for premiere in April, 2008), Chris Froh and Ellen Ruth Rose (for premiere in spring, 2008) and music for a play by playwright Jade McCutchean to be premiered in October, 2008. |