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1 Brandon Martin brandonmartinmusic.com LinkedIn: Brandon W. Martin Biographical Sketch Brandon Martin is a Caribbean-American vocalist-performer, composer, conductor, and educator whose musical interests span various genres. He specializes in art song and musical theatre performance. He is gaining a reputation for excellent compositions for chorus but also writes for musical theatre, solo voice, and instrumental ensembles. He has conducted for choral ensembles as well as for opera and musical theatre. Brandon recently conducted a performance of Pagliacci with the South Florida Lyric Opera. He was seen last on stage in the role of Action in the St. Petersburg (Florida) Opera Company production of West Side Story. As a choral performer, he attended the Chanticleer in Sonoma Workshop, performing alongside members of the world renowned ensemble. As a composer, Brandon was recently commissioned by the Association of Anglican Musicians for a piece for SATB chorus for their 2015 Conference. Originally born in Brooklyn, NY to Grenadian parents, Mr. Martin earned the Master of Music degree in Conducting from the University of South Florida, under James Bass, and the Bachelor of Arts in Music from Florida State University, studying voice with Roy Delp. He has studied composition with Clifton Callender and Michael Timpson. He taught Music, Kindergarten-5 th Grade, in the Hillsborough County Public Schools from 2007 to

2 Education Curriculum Vitae Master of Music: Conducting, University of South Florida, 2014 o Conducted premiere of his composition O Magnum Mysterium o Conducted, performed with the USF Chamber Singers and Collegium ensembles B.A. Music, The Florida State University, 2007 o focus in Vocal Performance o Vocal/diction studies under Roy Delp, Larry Gerber, Valerie Trujillo o Conducting, composition technique, orchestration, ballet and modern dance Broadway Theatre Project, Tampa, FL, 2005 o Dance: ballet, ballroom, modern, jazz Diploma, International Baccalaureate Organization, 2003 Teaching Experience Hillsborough County Public Schools, o Performance Opera (Florida State Opera: Matthew Lata and Douglas Fisher, directors) Il Prigioniero Giulio Cesare John Eccles The Judgment of Paris Mercury Susannah Le Comte Ory Musical Theater West Side Story Action St. Petersburg Opera Company Into the Woods Narrator Stage Door Community Theatre My Fair Lady Spanish Lyric Theatre Meet Me In St. Louis Spanish Lyric Theatre Once upon a Mattress Sir Harry Stage Door Community Theatre Brigadoon Spanish Lyric Theatre Peter Pan Peter Pan Stage Door Community Theatre Scrooge Tom Jenkins Stage Door Community Theatre Camelot Stage Door Community Theatre You re a Good Man, Charlie Brown Schroeder Stage Door Community Theatre Solo Vocal Repertoire (abridged) English: Dowland, Campion, Ives, Rodgers & Hammerstein German: Schumann Liederkreis French: Fauré, Debussy, Ravel 2

3 Choral Premieres Trumpeting the Stone, Brent Michael Davids, 2005 Alma, Harold Schiffman, 2005 Easter Cantata, Dustin Hinzman, 2006 FLASH, Augusta Read Thomas, 2011 Standard Literature Performed Bach Sanctus in D, Jesu meine Freude (BWV227), Lobet den Herrn (BWV230) Beethoven: Symphony No. 9, Finale Bernstein: Missa Brevis, Chichester Psalms Delius: Sea Drift Fauré: Cantique de Jean Racine Messiaen: O sacrum convivium Mozart: Requiem, Ave verum corpus Orff: Carmina Burana Penderecki: Credo Poulenc: Gloria Ravel: Daphnis and Chloe Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms Jeffrey Van: A Procession Winding Around Me Vaughan Williams: Serenade to Music, O Clap Your Hands Whitacre: Sleep, i thank you God, little tree, Lux aurumque Performed with: Performers/Composers: Andrea Bocelli, Chanticleer, Bobby McFerrin, Krzysztof Penderecki Conductors: Kevin Fenton, Andre Thomas, Anton Armstrong, James Bass, Jo-Michael Scheibe, Will Kesling, Markus Huber, Richard Zielinski Ensembles Cathedral of St. Peter Evensong Choir Chanticleer in Sonoma Workshop University of South Florida Collegium Early Music Ensemble, Chamber Singers Master Chorale of Tampa Bay Tampa Bay Children s Florida All-State Treble, Mixed, and Sight-Reading Choirs Works Studied Vocal Britten: Serenade 3

4 Orchestral John Adams: Century Rolls Choral Bernstein: Mass Brahms: Ein deutsches requiem Durufle: Ubi Caritas Fauré: Requiem Poulenc: O Magnum Mysterium Tallis: If Ye Love Me Stravinsky: Zvezdolikiy, Requiem Canticles Whitacre: Lux Aurumque Conducting/Musical Direction Choral Experience Director of Music, First United Church of Tampa, 2011-present Opera/Musical Theatre Pagliacci/Gilbert & Sullivan s Trial by Jury Into the Woods The Fantasticks Grease Compositions/Arrangements South Florida Lyric Opera Spoto High School StageDoor Community Theatre Steinbrenner High School Choral Magnificat/Nunc dimittis (SSATB & organ), 2014 Bethlehem Carol (SATB a cappella), 2013 O Magnum Mysterium (SATB a cappella), 2012 Christmas With You (SATB a cappella), 2011 Doxology (SATB a cappella), 2009 Suite galante (SATB a cappella), in progress Simple Gifts for SATB & piano, 2012 Instrumental Fourth Nocturne (E. Satie) for saxophone quartet, 2009 Moonlight Waltz (string orchestra), 2001 Et la lune descends sur le temple qui fut (C. Debussy) for orchestra, in progress Musical Theater 500 Years of Florida: A Musical Revue for Children (script and an original song), 2013 Journey through the Decades: A Musical Revue for Children (script), 2010 Johnny s New Heart: in progress A Radical Love: in progress 4

5 Untitled World War I music drama: in progress Vocal Calamus: Songs for Tenor and Piano (text by Walt Whitman), 2009 America the Beautiful for baritone voice and violin, 2010 A Song for Mom, 2009 Awards/Scholarships/Accomplishments Best Musical Director (for The Fantasticks), East Hillsborough Community Theatre Awards, 2009 FSU School of Music Scholarship, Broadway Theatre Project: half-scholarship, 2005 Hillsborough County NAACP ACT-SO Competition: 2 nd Place, Composition, 2001 Master Classes (Broadway Theatre Project) Austin Pendleton (acting) Joe Pessagna (acting) Jeff Calhoun (musical theater) Workshops Chanticleer in Sonoma, Rohnert Park, CA, June 2013 Leadership/Service LeaderShape, 2005 FSU Residence Hall Judicial Board, Residence Hall President, Cawthon Hall, Florida State, American Legion Florida Boys State, 2002 Professional Service Member, Florida Music Educators Association, Hillsborough County Elementary Music Educators Council o FEMEA Workshop Co-Coordinator, 2013 Florida Music Educators Conference Judge, District 9 Florida State Thespians Competition (musical duet/solo, playwriting), ) Research Caribbean Folksong in Choral Literature/Choral Music in Caribbean Society (in progress) Social Commentary in American Musical Theatre Eric Satie: Life and Work The Origins of Opera: from Medieval times to the Seventeenth Century The Influence of the Russian Five on the Ballets Russes Works of Stravinsky 5