Martín Francisco Mayo

Professional Summary

I’m a Venezuelan-American composer, performer, and storyteller currently studying in the Royal
Conservatoire in the Hague. My music is focused around communication, specifically on the maxim cuento,
canto, ritmo (story, song, rhythm). I have substantial experience as an arranger, orchestrator, and copyist, and
I am an active instrumentalist and improviser. I am also active as a pedagogue, teaching an introductory
theory course and a rhythm course for composers at the Conservatoire since 2020.

Education

Royal Conservatoire The Hague (KonCon)
Master in Music Composition

2021 — present

Royal Conservatoire The Hague (KonCon)
Bachelor in Music Composition

2017 — 2021

New World School of the Arts at Miami Dade College (NWSA)
High school diploma

2013 — 2017

Performance and Work Experience

Composer and Arranger based in:
Miami, Florida (2016-2017)
The Hague, Netherlands (2017-)
Teacher and Lecturer of:
Introductory Theory Workshop, Royal Conservatoire
(KonCon) of the Hague (2020-)
Rhythm and Time for Composers, KonCon (2021-)
Amanuensis of:
Rozalie Hirs for the work Dreams of Airs (2018)
Founder, Composer, Cuatro, Arranger for:
Warekes (2019-)
Principal Oboe of the:
Miami Music Project (MMP) Youth Orchestra
(2011-2017)
NWSA Symphony Orchestra (2013-2017)

NWSA Wind Ensemble (2013-2017)
Oboist of the:
NWSA Wind Quintet (2016-2017)
Killington Music Festival (2015)
New World Symphony (NWS) Side-by-Side
(2013, 2014)
English Horn of the:
Florida Music Educator’s Association (FMEA)
All-State Symphony Orchestra
(2017)
FMEA All-State Symphonic Band (2016)
Pianist in the:
NWSA Jazz Combo (2014-2017)
Assistant Conductor of the:
MMP Leaders Orchestra (2014-2017)

Honors and Accolades

Winner of the Ereprijs for the Orkest de Ereprijs Young Composers’ Meeting (2020)
Participant in the Erasmus Prize Masterclass with John Adams (2019)
Winner of the NWSA 2015 Concerto Competition (performed Strauss Oboe Concerto)
Principal Oboist in the National Take-a-Stand Festival at Bard College in 2016 (conducted by Leon Botstein)
Guest Composer with the New World School of the Arts Wind Ensemble and Orchestra (2017, 2018)

Commissions and Performances

As of 2021, my music has been performed in such places and occasions as the 2019 and 2021 Gaudeamus Muziekweek, the 2019 Erasmus Prize Masterclass with John Adams, the Rhijnhof cemetery, the Spring Festival the Hague, and the Ereprijs Young Composers’ Meeting. Upcoming works will be premiered in the Oranjewoud Festival in June 2021, in June 2020 by Trio Basilova, in Walt Disney Concert Hall and Carnegie Hall by the Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Group, in November Music in fall 2022, and in the Warsaw Autumn Festival in 2023.

References

Rozalie Hirs
freelance poet and composer
2010@rozalie.com

Peter Adriaansz
composition professor at KonCon
p.adriaansz@planet.nl

Martijn Padding
chair of composition at KonCon
m.padding@online.nl

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