 | Martin I. Bresnick |
Martin I. Bresnick, the newly designated Charles T. Wilson Adjunct Professor of Music, is an internationally known composer who has written in virtually every medium -- from chamber and symphonic music to film and computer music.
Bresnick, a member of the Yale faculty since 1976, has also been a mentor to a generation of composers. He serves at Yale as a professor of composition and as coordinator of the composition department.
Bresnick's musical contributions have earned him a number of prestigious awards. In 1998, he was the inaugural recipient of the Charles Ives Living Award, presented by the American Academy of Arts and Letters, which allowed him to devote himself full-time to writing music over a three-year period. He has also been honored with the Rome Prize Fellowship, the Stoeger Prize for Chamber Music from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Aaron Copland Award for teaching from the American Society of Authors, Composers and Publishers, a Berlin Prize Fellowship from the American Academy in Berlin and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Bresnick has been commissioned by individual ensembles and performers as well as by the Koussevitzky and Fromm foundations, Chamber Music America, Meet-the-Composer and the National Endowment for the Arts, among many others. He has received international attention for his orchestral works, which have been performed in Europe, South America, Israel, Australia and the United States. Two of his scores for films -- "Arthur and Lillie" and "The Day After Trinity" -- were nominated for Academy Awards in the documentary category.
Born in New York City, Bresnick was educated at the High School of Music and Art and earned his B.A. from the University of Hartford. He earned his M.A. and D.M.A. from Stanford University and also studied at the Akademie für Musik in Vienna, Austria. His principal teachers of composition include György Ligeti, John Chowning and Gottfried von Einem. Before coming to Yale, he taught at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and at Stanford. He has been a visiting professor at universities in the United States, Canada and England, and has been a composer-in-residence and visiting composer at a number of universities and music camps.
Bresnick's work has also been heard at many festivals worldwide. His music has been recorded by Cantaloupe Records, Composers Recordings Inc., Centaur, New World Records, Artifact Music and Albany Records.
In 2006, the composer was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His colleagues and current and former students celebrated Bresnick's 60th birthday by hosting a musical tribute to the composer at Carnegie Hall in November featuring Bresnick's compositions.
T H I S
Martin Bresnick is named the
Charles T. Wilson Adjunct Professor
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