Robert Martin(1952)
∗in Hagerstown MD, USA
maleComposer
Robert Martin began composing at age 10. He wrote his first music for orchestra and concert band while still in high school and received performances from local musicians in western Maryland. In fact he wrote the graduation march played at his own high school graduation ceremony. The following summer he spent some time at a scientific commune in central Virginia. At Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, he studied with orchestral composer Robert Hall Lewis. After receiving Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Music Composition from Peabody he worked at various jobs, including as an apprentice in pipe organ restoration.
Konrad Ewald
Robert Martin, active as musician and investment banker (!), wrote ten duos («a series of musical watercolors») for different instruments, thereof four with viola. I only know the
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Works
• Along the River, for Violin and Viola • Antique Forms, for Flute and Viola • Autumn Light, for Clarinet and Viola • In the Shade, for English horn and Viola • Chrysolith, for Alto flute (& Piccolo), Viola and HarpMedia Center
Robert MartinFoto: © Michael Kanakis 1996
Robert MartinFoto: Ellen Battell Stoekel Estate, Norfolk, CT