American Academy of Arts and Letters
Yale composer Martin Bresnick has been elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Bresnick, professor of composition and coordinator of the Department of Composition at the School of Music, is one of 12 new members named this year. Election to the academy is considered one of the highest recognitions of artistic merit in this country. The new members will be inducted this month.
A member of the Yale faculty since 1981, Bresnick has received international attention for his orchestral works, which have been performed throughout the world. He has also written many works for chamber orchestra and music for films. In 1998, he was named as the first recipient of the Academy of Arts and Letters' Charles Ives Living Award, which allows composers to devote themselves fully to the creation of music for three years.
The Academy of Arts and Letters was founded in 1898 to "foster, assist and sustain an interest in literature, music and the fine arts." Bresnick's Yale colleague Ezra Laderman, professor and former dean of the School of Music, is president of the academy.
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