Professor Martin Herman, Director of the Gerald Strang Electronic Music Studio, has been a faculty member at CSULB since 1989.  He holds a B.A. from Duke University, an M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, and a PhD in composition from the University of California, Berkeley.

At Long Beach, he teaches harmony, musicianship, counterpoint, form and analysis, materials of modern music, composition, electronic music composition, basics of MIDI, and graduate theory seminars. His many specialties include composition, computer assisted composition, multi-media authoring, interactive computer music, Schenkerian analysis, and world wide web publishing.

Professor Herman's awards and honors include a Fulbright Grant to France, the Ladd Prix de Paris, the Eisner Prize in composition, a Dramalogue Award, Meet the Composer Awards, and a Camargo Foundation Residency. He has also had commissions and performances from the Long Beach Symphony Orchestra, the National Orchestral Association, the California EAR Unit, and the Berkeley Contemporary Opera, and has received international recognition through performances at the International Computer Music Conference in Tokyo, the Music Now Festival in Prague, and the International Music Festival in Brno, Czech Republic.