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Student Composer Success – Michael Martin and NYAE

Feb 19, 2010 Alumni/Emeriti, Keyboard, Music Tech, Strings, Theory/History, Winds/Perc
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Student composer Michael Martin took Honorable Mention in this year’s New York Art Ensemble Young Composers’ Competition!  His work The Cinnamon Peeler for clarinet, violin, violoncello, and piano made the final round of the competition.  The NYAE competition is very well-known, and previous finalists have gone on to great success in other competitions and festivals.  Martin worked with Eric Honour and fellow student Tim Gormly to record the work in the UCM recording studios in December 2009, as part of the materials he submitted.  The performers for the recording were staff accompanist and UCM alum Amanda Arrington, violin/viola professor John Rutland,  and current students James Westbrook and Kasey Wasson.  Martin is majoring in jazz-commercial music at UCM.  He studies composition with Eric Honour and David Aaberg and piano with Richard Smith.