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Prior to coming to TCU, Martin Blessinger served as Lecturer of Music Theory at Ithaca College in Ithaca, NY. He holds a D.M in music composition from the Florida State University, where he studied with Ladislav Kubik and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, as well as undergraduate and masters degrees from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, studying with Sheila Silver and Perry Goldstein. His works have been performed around the country by ensembles such as the North Shore Symphony Orchestra, the Metropolitan Brass Quintet, the Stony Brook Contemporary Chamber Players, Sounds New, and the new music ensembles of the University of Nebraska at Kearney, Florida State University, and Franklin Pierce College. His Cradle Song, a recent work for soprano and piano, was named a finalist in the 2005 Diana Barnhart American Song Competition and was granted the distinction cum laude. Additionally, his orchestration of Jessica Grace Wing's score for the hit off-Broadway musical Lost won Best Music in the 2003 New York City Fringe Festival. In 2006, he was declared a winner of the Eppes String Quartet Competition at the Florida State University, for the submission Postcard from the Americas, as well as winner of the Young Composers Competition at Illinois Wesleyan University.
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