Martin Bresnick is completed his education at the University of Hartford, Stanford University, and the Akademie für Musik in Vienna. Among his teachers of composition have been György Ligeti, John Chowning and Gottfried von Einem. His compositions, which range from chamber music to works of computer music, have been performed by a number of orchesters, including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the City of London Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Radio Televisione Italiana and the Cologne and Berlin Philharmonic Orchestras.