Martha Callison Horst

Martha Callison Horst is an American composer. Her music has been performed by Earplay, Alea III, the Empyrean Ensemble, the Fromm Players, Left Coast Ensemble,[1] Dal Niente, Composers, Inc., members of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, the Chicago Composers Consortium,[2] and Music Beyond Performance: SoundImageSound V.[3] Horst studied composition at Stanford University and the University of California, Davis.[4] She is currently Professor of Composition and Music Theory in the College of Fine Arts at Illinois State University.[5]

Martha Callison Horst
Education
Musical career
GenresClassical
Occupation(s)composer
LabelsAzica, SNOtone

Partial list of works
  • Adagio for orchestra[6]
  • Cloister Songs[7]
  • Cloud Gate[8]
  • Creature Studies[9]
  • Giant Variations[10]
  • Night Songs[11]
  • Sonata No. 1 for piano[12][13]
  • Straussian Landscapes[14][15][16]
  • Threads
  • Three Meditations on Van Gogh
  • Widening Gyre

Discography

'''Approaching''' (Symphony Number One)

  • Released: November 2017
  • Format: CD
  • Label: SNOtone ST04
  • Writers: Martha Callison Horst, Hangrui Zhang, Nicholas Bentz
  • Producer: Dan Rorke, Jordan Randall Smith
  • Tracks: “Straussian Landscapes”, “Baltimore Prelude”, “Approaching Eternity”

Reform: Solo Piano (Lara Downes)

  • Released: 2003
  • Format: CD
  • Label: Azica Records 71213
  • Writers: Martha Callison Horst, Yu-Hui Chang, Andrew Frank, Lowell Liebermann, Pablo Ortiz and Stephen Paulus
  • Tracks: “Sonata No. 1 for piano”,[17]

Chamber music of women composers. Volume 1.[18] (Left Coast Chamber Ensemble)

  • Released: 1997
  • Format: Cassette
  • Writers: Martha Callison Horst, Deborah H Kavasch, Joan Tower, Jennifer Higdon, Chen Yi
  • Tracks: “Turning points”, “Island prelude”, “Abelard”, “Rapid fire”, Sprout”, “Stonewall”, “Fusion”, “Quixotic callings”

References
  1. San Francisco Bay Guardian (1999). San Francisco Bay Guardian Issue 34.32.
  2. "History | c3 composers". c3composers.org. Retrieved 2018-01-09.
  3. Nordschow, Randy (2008-01-15). "Love is in the Air". NewMusicBox. Retrieved 2018-01-09.
  4. "Martha Callison Horst | The Program in Science, Technology, and Society". sts.stanford.edu. Archived from the original on 2018-05-05. Retrieved 2018-05-05.
  5. https://finearts.illinoisstate.edu/faculty-staff/#tabs-accord-accordion6
  6. OCLC 64065078
  7. Dyer, Richard. "Festival spotlights female composers - The Boston Globe". archive.boston.com. Retrieved 2018-01-09.
  8. Witczak, Karen (April 19, 2017). "Martha Horst's Orchestral Palindrome". Puzzle Canon. Retrieved 2018-01-09.
  9. "Earplay Archives" (PDF). 2008.
  10. "New Music Café Presents a Night of Diverse Performances". www.iwu.edu. Retrieved 2018-01-09.
  11. "Entries | Contemporary Music Index". Contemporary Music Archive. Retrieved 2018-01-09.
  12. "WQXR - New York's Classical Music Radio Station". WQXR. Retrieved 2018-01-09.
  13. "Choice Classical CDs". www.angelfire.com. Retrieved 2018-01-09.
  14. "Rep Hub: Martha Horst, Straussian Landscapes". Symphony Number One. Retrieved 2018-01-07.
  15. "Symphony Number One Opened September 23 and 24 with Wealth of Winds". The Peabody Post. 2016-10-25. Retrieved 2018-01-09.
  16. Desk, BWW News. "SNO's 4th Album APPROACHING Features 80 Minutes Of New Music". Retrieved 2018-01-09.
  17. OCLC 789127856
  18. OCLC 325229579
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