Martha Callison Horst Explained

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 Wonsook Kim College of Fine Arts at Illinois State University.^[5] Furthermore, she serves as an Academic Senator representing the College of Fine Arts. In the fall of 2020, she was elected Secretary of the Academic Senate placing her on the Executive Committee with the University administration.^[6]

Partial list of works

• Adagio for orchestra
• 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

!Title!Recording Artist!Album Info!Label

Approaching	Symphony Number One	Released: November 2017 Format: CD Producer: Dan Rorke, Jordan Randall Smith	SNOtone
Reform: Solo Piano	Laura Downes	Released: 2003 Format: CD	Azica Records
Chamber Music of Women Composers. Volume 1	Left Coast Chamber Ensemble	Released: 1997 Format: Cassette

Notes and References

1. Book: San Francisco Bay Guardian. San Francisco Bay Guardian Issue 34.32. 1999.
2. Web site: History c3 composers. c3composers.org. 2018-01-09.
3. News: Love is in the Air. Nordschow. Randy. 2008-01-15. NewMusicBox. 2018-01-09.
4. Web site: Martha Callison Horst The Program in Science, Technology, and Society. sts.stanford.edu. en. https://web.archive.org/web/20180505015949/https://sts.stanford.edu/people/martha-callison-horst. 2018-05-05. 2018-05-05.
5. Web site: Faculty & Staff | Wonsook Kim College of Fine Arts - Illinois State.
6. Web site: Current membership .
7. Web site: Festival spotlights female composers - The Boston Globe. Dyer. Richard. archive.boston.com. 2018-01-09.
8. Web site: Martha Horst's Orchestral Palindrome. Witczak. Karen. April 19, 2017. Puzzle Canon. 2018-01-09.
9. Web site: Earplay Archives. 2008.
10. Web site: New Music Café Presents a Night of Diverse Performances. www.iwu.edu. 2018-01-09.
11. News: Entries Contemporary Music Index. Contemporary Music Archive. 2018-01-09.
12. Web site: WQXR - New York's Classical Music Radio Station. WQXR. 2018-01-09.
13. Web site: Choice Classical CDs. Angelfire. 2018-01-09.
14. Web site: Rep Hub: Martha Horst, Straussian Landscapes. Symphony Number One. 2018-01-07.
15. News: Symphony Number One Opened September 23 and 24 with Wealth of Winds. 2016-10-25. The Peabody Post. 2018-01-09.
16. News: SNO's 4th Album APPROACHING Features 80 Minutes Of New Music. BWW News Desk. 2018-01-09.