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As a composer, the New York Composer’s Orchestra, the Boston Jazz Composer’s Alliance, the Lydian String Quartet, the Rova Saxophone Quartet, the Kitchen House Blend Orchestra, The New York String Trio and pianist Ursula Oppens have commissioned works from Ehrlich. To date, he has received three artists’ fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, two composition grants from the NEA, and numerous grants from the Mary Flagler Charitable Trust and from Meet the Composer.
Ehrlich has also been a composition fellow at the Civitella Ranieri Arts Center in Italy and the Blue Mountain Center in New York. In 1995 he was composer-in-residence at the Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum in Boston and in 2000, he was the Peter Ivers Visiting Artist at Harvard University. Ehrlich has taught at New England Conservatory of Music and Hampshire College.
Ehrlich has also been active as a collaborator with other composers. He currently works with pianist Myra Melford in the Melford/Ehrlich Duo and in a trio with Andrew Cyrille an dMark Dresser, called C/D/E. He has also collaborated with Muhal Richard Abrams, Mike Nock, Anthony Cox and John Lindberg.
Also since 1997, Ehrlich – an original member of Hemphill’s Sextet – has conducted and performed the music of the late Julius Hemphill. Erhlich has also been in great demand as a sideman, appearing with a distinguished array or artists including: Muhal Richard Abrams, Ray Anderson, Fontella Bass, Tim Berne, Anthony Braxton, Jaki Byard, John Carter, Anthony Davis, Jack DeJohnette, James Emery, Peter Erskine, Michael Formanek, Don Grolnick, George Gruntz, Chico Hamilton, Jerome Harris, Julius Hemphill, Andrew Hill, Robin Holcomb, Wayne Horvitz, Leroy Jenkins, Oliver Lake, Myra Melford, Roscoe Mitchell, James Newton, Mike Nock, Mario Pavone, Ken Peplowski, Bobby Previte, George Russell, Randy Sandke, Leo Smith, John Zorn and others. He appears on close to 100 albums with these composers.
In the classical field, Ehrlich has performed with the New York City Opera, the New York City Ballet, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the St. Luke’s Orchestra, the Birmingham (England) Contemporary Music Ensemble and Chamber Music Northwest. He has premiered compositions written for him by David Lang and David Schiff. He has also toured with the Jose Limon and the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane companies.
Marty Ehrlich was born in 1955 in St. Paul, Minnesota. He began performing in St. Louis, Missouri, where he was raised. As a high school student, he became involved with the community of musicians and poets influenced by the innovations of St. Louis’ Black Artist Group (BAG). He took part in a recording, “Under the Sun†by the Human Arts Ensemble before leaving in 1973 for the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. AT NEC, Ehrlich studied with George Russell, Jaki Byard, Joe Maneri, Gunther Schuller and the legendary woodwind teacher, Joseph Allard, and received a B.A. in Music. Erlich graduated in 1977 as the first jazz major to be awarded the school’s Chadwick Medal for Outstanding Achievement. In 1992 he was named a Distinguished Alumni of the Conservatory.
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