Martin has a wealth of experience as a choral director. He is a graduate of
The Royal Northern College of Music, where he studied piano and piano
accompaniment. Later he went on to study choral conducting, voice and piano at
Boston University in the USA.
Martin spent four years working in Newfoundland as a
music specialist and it was here that he was first noticed as a choral
conductor. Since returning to Britain he has been Head of Music in several
secondary schools and has travelled abroad extensively with his school choirs.
For 12 years Martin conducted the Chester Music Society Junior Choir, which twice
reached the semi-finals of the Sainsbury’s Choir of the Year competition and won
awards in Montreaux and Riva Del Garda.
Martin also conducts Sandbach Voices and is Director of Music at The Blue
Coat School in Liverpool where there is a very successful choir which has been on
tour to Venice and Prague in recent years to great acclaim.
