Colin Martin is a composer from Albuquerque, New Mexico, currently pursuing his Doctor of Musical Arts at the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami. His music has been performed at the University of New Mexico's Popejoy Hall, the American Romanian Festival, San Francisco's Center for New Music, The University of Miami, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, the Conductor's Institute at Bard College, and Middlebury College's Mahaney Center for the Arts.
Colin has collaborated with such esteemed performers as pianists Olga Kern, Vladislav Kern, and Anna Dmytrenko, San Francisco Symphony principal trombone Tim Higgins, members of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra at the American Romanian Festival, sopranos Winnie Nieh and Hannah Stephens, timpanist Douglas Cardwell, and conductors Roberto Minczuk and Grant Cooper, among others. His first major orchestral work, a symphony celebrating Leonard Bernstein's centennial and commissioned by the New Mexico Philharmonic, premiered in 2019. A second piece, "Songs from "By Heart"", premiered with soprano Hannah Stephens and the NMP in 2022 and was awarded second prize in the American Prize for Orchestral Composition, Professional Division.
Colin has premiered his piano works as the soloist at the Southwest Piano Festival (www.swpianofestival.org) in Albuquerque, where he serves as Vice President and Composer-in-Residence.
Colin graduated with his MM in Composition at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in 2018, studying with David Garner. He earned his Bachelor's 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. A dedicated educator, Colin teaches piano, music theory, and composition, and has a passion for sharing his love and knowledge of music with the next generation of talented musicians.
Colin has collaborated with such esteemed performers as pianists Olga Kern, Vladislav Kern, and Anna Dmytrenko, San Francisco Symphony principal trombone Tim Higgins, members of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra at the American Romanian Festival, sopranos Winnie Nieh and Hannah Stephens, timpanist Douglas Cardwell, and conductors Roberto Minczuk and Grant Cooper, among others. His first major orchestral work, a symphony celebrating Leonard Bernstein's centennial and commissioned by the New Mexico Philharmonic, premiered in 2019. A second piece, "Songs from "By Heart"", premiered with soprano Hannah Stephens and the NMP in 2022 and was awarded second prize in the American Prize for Orchestral Composition, Professional Division.
Colin has premiered his piano works as the soloist at the Southwest Piano Festival (www.swpianofestival.org) in Albuquerque, where he serves as Vice President and Composer-in-Residence.
Colin graduated with his MM in Composition at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in 2018, studying with David Garner. He earned his Bachelor's 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. A dedicated educator, Colin teaches piano, music theory, and composition, and has a passion for sharing his love and knowledge of music with the next generation of talented musicians.