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”
gollark: The main thing we probably have to worry about is misaligned things being programmed with goals like "ensure there is no mess on the floor" removing the entire floor, and such.
gollark: ......
gollark: Building in resentment and such would actually be harder than just not doing that.
gollark: ...
gollark: Fortunately, you can simply program them to unquestioningly serve, and/or want to help humans.

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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