Martin Schreiner

Martin Schreiner (b. 1950) is a composer with a broad range of musical experience and interests. His catalog includes more than 80 compositions: concert music for traditional symphonic instruments, jazz ensemble, chamber groups, choral music and solo vocal works. He began writing for traditional Japanese instruments in 1994. His music has won awards from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the New England Reed Trio International Chamber Music Composition Competition, a Bryant Fellowship from Harvard University, and a certificate from the 21st Century Music Project Competition of the International Center for Japanese Culture in Yokohama, Japan. Martin's music has been performed across the United States, in Europe and Japan. Martin is a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music (MM '86) where his principal teachers were Arthur Berger, Pozzi Escot and Malcolm Peyton. As an undergraduate he majored in music composition as a student of Philip Bezanson and Robert Stern at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.