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Martha Sullivan
Joined November, 2003
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Genre: Classical, with an emphasis on the voice
Introduction:
Award-winning vocal music, choral and solo; sacred and secular works, and chamber music ...
Biography:
New York composer Martha Sullivan's works have been commissioned by artists including the Dale Warland Singers, the Gregg Smith Singers, Chicago A Cappella, various college and church groups in the Northeast, and Stephen Tharp, the internationally acclaimed organ recitalist. Her choral work has been broadcast over New York's WQXR (and thus worldwide on the Internet) as part of a concert by the vocal quartet Adventori, and in addition, Ms. Sullivan's songs and arrangements have been heard at various festivals, from the New Texas Festival to the Emily Dickinson in Song festival (Amherst, Massachusetts) to the Studio Arsis Workshops (Tokyo, Japan). Her work also appears in the book Singing for Dummies. She has received grants from Meet the Composer, and is the winner of the Dale Warland Singers' 2003 Choral Ventures competition.
Ms. Sullivan is also a noted singer of new music. She has performed with several groups committed to unusual works, notably the Gregg Smith Singers, New York Virtuoso Singers, Vox Vocal Ensemble, and new-music ensembles at Yale and Boston University. She is a member of Toby Twining Music and sang premieres of Mr. Twining's Chrysalid Requiem in Amsterdam and New York (the recording of it is available on Cantaloupe Records); she has also premiered songs by John Zorn at Bargemusic.
Ms. Sullivan is also a respected teacher and clinician (having taught in places as close to her home as New York University and as distant as Tokyo) and a sometime choral conductor (having founded two vocal groups in Boston), and she has even been interviewed for the online journal "NewMusicBox".
She is always grateful to share music, her own and others', because music always has something new to say.
Artist's Statement:
Where does music live? In the heart or head, in the hand on the page? No: somewhere in that unclaimed space between you and me ...
Recent Works:
"In Thanks-Giving"
a cappella choral song cycle (SSAATTBB with solos)
for the Dale Warland Singers (10 minutes)
"O Lux Beata Trinitas"
SSAATTBB anthem, a cappella
for the Gregg Smith Singers (4 minutes)
"Qui Tombe"
song for dramatic soprano, piano, and cello
for Giulia Utz (5 minutes)
"Blow, blow, thou winter wind"
choral song (SSAATTBarBB)
for Chicago A Cappella (3 minutes)
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