Martin Brody

Martin Brody (* 1949 in Chicago ) is an American composer and music teacher .

Brody grew up in Elgin and attended high school there, in whose orchestra he played the cello. After earning a bachelor's degree from Amherst College , he studied music at Yale University (MMA 1976, DMA 1981). Since 1979 he has held a professorship at Wellesley College , where he teaches composition, electronic music and music theory. With the ethnomusicologist Ted Levin and with the support of the International Research and Exchanges Board , he organized a composer exchange between the USA and the Soviet Union in 1987. In 2001 he was Composer in Residence and from 2007 to 2010 Heiskell Arts Director of the American Academy in Rome . He is President of the Stefan Wolpe Society and editor of Perspectives of New Music and The Open Space magazines .

Brody won the first composition award in 1972 at Amherst College. This was followed by three awards from the National Endowment for the Arts (1983, 1991, and 1992) and a Guggenheim grant (2000). In addition to chamber music and vocal works, he composed a. a. Ritornelli for piano and orchestra (commissioned by the Elgin Symphony Orchestra ), the operas Heart of a Dog and Earth Studies as well as film, drama and TV film music.

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SURNAME	Brody, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American composer and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH	1949
PLACE OF BIRTH	Chicago