David McMullin, composer

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David McMullin (b.1971) 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 MoEns (Prague), Ensemble MD7 (Ljubljana), the Harmonies of the World (Odessa), the New York Virtuoso Singers, the Talujon Percussion Quartet, the Washington Square Contemporary Music Society, the Chamber Players of the League/ISCM, North/South Consonance, the New Gallery Concert Series, 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.


Upcoming:

March 22, 2010 - Collage New Music (David Hoose, director) will premiere a new composition, as yet untitled, for flute, clarinet, percussion, piano, violin & cello.

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


New Recording:

Radiance, recorded by guitarist Steven Lin.

Radiance, Steven Lin, guitar. Thanks, Steve!


Recent Events:

September 24, 2009 - LacrossE Trio premiere of Alleluia in Willimantic, CT -- postponed.

March 7, 2009 - I conducted the ensemble Mimesis in the US premiere of A Still Small Voice, at the Peter J. Sharp Theatre at Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway, New York, NY.

March 26, 2009 - I conducted the Essex Chamber Music Players in three performances of Queen Slipper Serenade for students at the Consentino School in Haverhill, MA