She was a fellow at the MacDowell Colony and twice a fellow in composition at the Tanglewood Music Center, where she worked with Oliver Knussen and Hans Werner Henze. In April 2020, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for music composition. Epstein has received numerous awards and commissions. Her principal composition instructors were Charles Eakin, Joyce Mekeel, and Bernard Rands. She earned degrees from the University of Colorado (Bachelor of Music in Composition, summa * laude, 1982) and Boston University (Master of Music in Composition, 1984 Doctor of Musical Arts in Composition, 1989). She began composition studies in 1977 while still in high school with Professor Robert Beadell at the University of Nebraska. ContentsĮpstein was born in Denver, Colorado in 1959. She is Professor of Composition at Berklee College of Music and the Boston Conservatory at Berklee. Marti Epstein (born November 25, 1959) is an American composer.
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