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Ostwald Award Archives
Winner 1989: Martin Mailman, For Precious Friends Hid in Death's Dateless Night
Winner 1983: Martin Mailman, Exaltations
Biography:
Martin Mailman was born in New York City in 1932. He earned B.M. (1954), M.M.(1955) and Ph.D. (1960) degrees from Eastman School of Music where he studied composition with Louis Mennini, Wayne Barlow, Bernard Rogers and Howard Hanson.Mailman has had a long and successful teaching career. He taught at the U.S. Naval School of Music from 1955 to 1957. Following this, he taught at Eastman (1958-1959), Brevard Music Center (summers of 1960, 1961 and 1983), West Virginia University (summer of 1963) and East Carolina College (1961-1966). He also took part in the Ford Foundation's Young Composers Project as composer-in-residence in Jacksonville, Florida (1959-1961). In 1966 he began teaching at the University of North Texas where he is currently Regents Professor of Music and Composer-in-Residence.
In addition to his many teaching positions, Mailman has enjoyed a prolific career as a composer. His works include chamber music, band, choral and orchestral music, film scores, television music, an opera and a requiem. He has been the recipient of many awards and commissions including the Edward Benjamin Award for Quiet Music (1955), the annual ASCAP award, and a National Endowment for the Arts Composers Grant (1982). His For Precious Friends Hid in Death's Dateless Night is the first composition to win both the Ostwald Award and the National Band Association Band Mans Award.
Mailman has been a guest conductor, composer and lecturer at over 90 colleges and universities and clinician/conductor at numerous international, national, regional and state meetings as well as high schools and festivals. He is active in numerous music organizations including Phi Mu Alpha, Pi Kappa Lambda, American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers and the American Bandmasters Association.
Source:
Correspondence with the composer.
