Laurie San Martin

Laurie San Martin is an American composer, music teacher, conductor, and clarinetist.

San Martin studied music theory and composition at Brandeis University . She has taught at Clark University and is Professor of Music at the University of California, Davis . In 2016 she became a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation . As a composition fellow , she has worked for the MacDowell Colony , the Montalvo Artist Residency , the Atlantic Center for the Arts , the Norfolk Contemporary Chamber Music Festival and the Composers Conference at Wellesley College . In addition to chamber music and orchestral works, she also composed plays and ballet music and wrote works for soloists such as the violinists Hrafnhildur Atladottir and Gabriela Díaz , the percussionists Chris Froh and Mayumi Hama , the singer Haleh Abghari , the gayageum player Yi Ji-Young and the cellist David Russell . In collaboration with the singer Haleh Abghari and the visual artist Dana Harel , the chamber opera Conference of the Birds was created based on the poetry of Fariduddin Attar . She has also worked with ensembles such as the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players , the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble , the Lydian Quartet, the Magnetic South Ensemble and the Washington Square Contemporary Chamber Players . For her works she has received awards from the League of Composers , the American Academy of Arts and Letters , the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer and the Margaret Blackwell Memorial Prize in Composition .

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• John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation - Laurie San Martin
• San Francisco Contemporary Music Players - Laurie San Martin
• University of California, Davis - Department of Music - Laurie San Martin