Martin Brody, composer

Martin Brody has received commissions and awards from numerous organizations, including the Guggenheim Foundation, American Academy of Arts and Letters, National Endowment for the Arts, and Fromm Foundation for Music at Harvard. Brody has composed a wide variety of works for voices and instruments, including two chamber operas, Heart of a Dog and Earth Studies. His extensive writing about contemporary music has appeared in such journals as The Musical Quarterly, Perspectives of New Music, and The Journal of Music Theory. He has also written extensively for film and television and has collaborated on numerous projects to promote contemporary music, including a US-USSR composers exchange in the 1980s and the Seminar on Musical Culture at the Harvard Center for Literary and Cultural Studies in the 1990s. He is President of the Stefan Wolpe Society, a member of the Board of Directors of the Composers Conference and Chamber Music Center, and Catharine Mills Davis Professor at Wellesley College.