Martin Herman

Conductor

Known for his clarity, attention to detail, advocacy of new music by living composers, interpretations of the classics as well as comfort with crossover symphonic concerts and popular music, Martin is a versatile and wide-ranging conductor who has appeared as guest conductor with symphony orchestras in North America, Europe, and Australia. Recent engagements include the Buffalo Philharmonic, the Utah Symphony as part of their Deer Valley Music Festival, the Tucson Symphony Cirque de la Symphony “Holiday Magic” concerts, and the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra Botanic Garden concert series. He has also recently guest-conducted Das Sinfonie Orchester Berlin at the Berlin Philharmonic Chamber Music Hall.

Martin served as music director and conductor with Downtown Opera in Long Beach, California, conducting premieres of new operas in the U.S. and the Czech Republic and was conductor and music director at LaMaMa Theatre in New York City where he led performances of his one-act opera, The Doctor. He also served as assistant conductor with the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players and was conductor of the Berkeley Young Musicians Program Orchestra and Berkeley Summer Orchestra. He has toured extensively as conductor with Windborne Music’s repertory of symphonic rock concerts and served as orchestra conductor for the tour of Marie Osmond’s show, “Marie”, featuring Marie Osmond performing with symphony orchestras and her band throughout the United States. He was also arranger and conductor for Flying Music Inc., London in tours with orchestra and band throughout the United Kingdom. Martin has been arranger and conductor for “Classical Mystery Tour” Music of the Beatles in well over a hundred concerts with symphony orchestras nationally and internationally since its inception, having toured with them throughout the US, Europe, Australia and Canada.

Martin studied conducting and composition at Duke University, University of Pennsylvania, and University of California, Berkeley and spent two years in Paris, France on a Fulbright Grant and U.C. Berkeley Ladd Prix de Paris where he worked as a conductor and composer. He has received recognition for his work in the promotion of international cultural exchange from the Trust for Mutual Understanding, New York City.