Biography
San Martin was born in 1968 [3] in Oakland, California. [4] Originally learning violin through the Suzuki method as a toddler, she later started playing the clarinet as a young child, eventually making it her primary instrument. [4] She obtained her BA in music in 1991 from University of California, Davis, [5] where she was one of the last students of Richard Swift before his retirement. [6]
In 1999, she was awarded a MacDowell Colony Fellowship. [7] She was awarded an American Academy of Arts and Letters Charles Ives Scholarship in 2000. [8] In 2003, she obtained her PhD in theory and composition at Brandeis University; her doctoral dissertation Compositional devices: How melodic and harmonic elements function to achieve a large-scale dramatic structure in the first movement of Andrew Imbrie's "Spring Fever" was supervised by Martin Boykan. [9] [2]
In April 2010, her piece Two Pieces for Piano and Percussion was performed at a Louis Karchin premiere at the Kaufman Music Center, performed by the Washington Square Ensemble. [10] In 2011, the American Contemporary Music Ensemble selected her piece Linea Negra, which The New York Times called "fitfully leaping and rolling", to be performed at Joe's Pub. [11]
In 2016, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. [9] She won the 2018 American Academy of Arts and Letters Andrew Imbrie Award in Music. [12] Her piece Seven Pines premiered at Radius Ensemble's May 2019 concert; Zoë Madonna of the Boston Globe compared it to "a series of alchemical experiments". [13]
In 2003, she worked as an performance instructor at UC Davis' No Barriers summer program. [14] Originally teaching at Clark University, she later returned to UC Davis as a professor of music. [9]
As of 2007, she lived in Woodland, California. [4]
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