Martha Callison Horst is an American composer. Her music has been performed by

Earplay ''Earplay'' was the longest-running of the formal series of radio drama anthologies on National Public Radio, produced by WHA in Madison, Wisconsin and heard from 1972 into the 1990s. It approached radio drama as an art form with scripts written ...

, Alea III, the Empyrean Ensemble, the Fromm Players, Left Coast Ensemble, Dal Niente, Composers, Inc., members of the

Scottish Chamber Orchestra The Scottish Chamber Orchestra (SCO) is an Edinburgh-based UK chamber orchestra. One of Scotland's five National Performing Arts Companies, the SCO performs throughout Scotland, including annual tours of the Scottish Highlands and Islands and S ...

, the Chicago Composers Consortium, and Music Beyond Performance: SoundImageSound V. Horst studied composition at Stanford University and the University of California, Davis. She is currently Professor of Composition and Music Theory in the Wonsook Kim College of Fine Arts at Illinois State University. Furthermore, she serves as an Academic Senator representing the College of Fine Arts. In the fall of 2020, she was elected Secretary of the Academic Senate placing her on the Executive Committee with the University administration.

Partial list of works

* ''Adagio for orchestra'' * ''Cloister Songs'' * ''Cloud Gate'' * ''Creature Studies'' * ''Giant Variations'' * ''Night Songs'' * Sonata No. 1 for piano * ''Straussian Landscapes'' * ''Threads'' * ''Three Meditations on Van Gogh'' * ''Widening Gyre''

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* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Horst, Martha Callison 1967 births Living people 21st-century American composers American women composers University of California, Davis alumni 21st-century American women musicians 21st-century women composers Illinois State University faculty 21st-century classical composers