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Ostwald Award Archives
Winner 1992: Timothy Mahr, Endurance (commission)
Winner 1991: Timothy Mahr, The Soaring Hawk [Listen]
Biography:
Timothy Mahr (b. 1956) is Associate Professor of Music at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota where he is the Conductor of the St. Olaf College Band. He also teaches courses in composition, conducting and music education, and supervises instrumental student teaching. Previous to his appointment in 1994 at St. Olaf, Mahr was Director of Bands at the University of Minnesota, Duluth for ten years and taught instrumental music at Milaca High School in Milaca, Minnesota for three years.Active as a guest conductor and clinician, Mahr is in demand across the nation and in Norway and Canada as a conductor of all-state bands, intercollegiate bands and honor band festivals. He has been in residence as a guest composer/conductor on nearly twenty college and university campuses.
Mahr is well known as a composer and has over 40 works to his credit, over a dozen of which have been contracted for publication. His works have been presented at Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall in New York, as well as numerous international and national music conventions. His compositions have been and continue to be programmed by the U.S. Marine Band, U.S. Air Force Band, other armed service bands, major college and university bands, all-state bands, and ensembles in seventeen countries on four continents. His works have been broadcast on public radio, and recordings of his works can be found on the Sony, Crest and Mark labels.
Mahr has received commissions from the United States Air Force Band, the Music Educators National Conference, the Nebraska and Indiana Bandmasters Associations, and many college, university, high school and community bands. He is a recipient of the National Band Association's "Citation of Excellence" and was elected in 1993 to membership in the American Bandmasters Association. He is currently its youngest member.
Mahr graduated with two degrees summa cum laude from St. Olaf College in 1977 and 1978 (B.M. Theory/Composition and B.A. Music Education). In 1983 he received an M.A. degree in Trombone Performance from the University of Iowa, where in 1995 he also earned a D.M.A. degree in Instrumental Conducting.
Mahr is married to Jill Mahr, musician and educator, and they have a 6 year old daughter, Jenna.
Source:
Correspondence with the composer.
