Colin Martin
COMMISSIONED COMPOSER 2023
Colin Martin is a Bay Area-based composer and pianist from Albuquerque, New Mexico. He graduated with his MM in Composition from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in 2018, studying with David Garner. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in music with honors from Middlebury College in 2015, with minors in Spanish and Chinese. He has also studied composition with Su Lian Tan, piano with Diana Fanning and Maribeth Gunning, and percussion with Douglas Cardwell. His music includes symphonic works such as concerti and symphonies, as well as chamber, solo, and vocal works, and has been performed at the University of New Mexico’s Popejoy Hall, San Francisco’s Center for New Music, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Middlebury College’s Mahaney Center for the Arts, and premiered at the Southwest Piano Festival. His first major orchestral work, a symphony celebrating Leonard Bernstein’s centennial commissioned by the New Mexico Philharmonic, premiered in 2019.