David McMullin, composer

David McMullin is a recipient of the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award, the Aaron Copland Award, and MacDowell Colony Fellowship, among other honors. He is Director of the American Composers Forum of New England, teaches music theory at New England Conservatory, and serves on the Executive Committee of the International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM). He holds a Ph.D. in music theory and composition from New York University and a Bachelor's degree in music from Yale University. His composition teachers include Louis Karchin, Brian Fennelly, Charles Wuorinen and Andrew Imbrie. His works have been performed in the United States, Europe and Asia by groups such as Collage New Music, the New York Virtuoso Singers, the Talujon Percussion Quartet, the Washington Square Contemporary Music Society, the New Gallery Concert Series, the Chamber Players of the League/ISCM, North/South Consonance, MoEns (Prague), Ensemble MD7 (Ljubljana), the Harmonies of the World (Odessa), and the Taipei Chamber Singers; his music has appeared in such international festivals as the ISCM World New Music Days (Hong Kong 2007), Festival Ljubljana in Slovenia, Trieste Prima in Italy, the Two Days and Two Nights of New Music in Ukraine and the Kazan Festival of New Music in Tatarstan (Russian Federation). The Czech composers group Atelier 90 has also honored Mr. McMullin with a concert in Prague dedicated to his works.

Premiere:

March 22, 2010 - Collage New Music (David Hoose, director) premiered Ricochet, for flute, clarinet, percussion, piano, violin & cello.

8pm, Edward M. Pickman Concert Hall of the Longy School of Music, 27 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA.