Bio:

Will Martin is a New York City–based composer and vocalist working across chamber, orchestral, vocal, and electroacoustic mediums. His music features intricately crafted harmonies, subtle nuances of instrumental timbre, and interwoven layers of sound. His music is in dialogue with a vast constellation of influences, incorporating both the acoustics-informed underpinnings of French spectral music and the rhythmic vitality of jazz. 

Recent works include Lines of Flight for chamber ensemble, premiered by the Paris-based Ensemble L'Itinéraire, and Even the poisoned air floats a woman's name, a piece with accompanying video written for the NYC-based TAK Ensemble. His music has been performed internationally by ensembles including the JACK Quartet, Hypercube, PHACE Ensemble, and Ensemble L'Itinéraire. He has taken part in festivals including the Écoles d'Arts Américaines de Fontainebleau, the CEME Festival in Tel Aviv, the Valencia International Performing Arts Festival, Domaine Forget de Charlevoix, and New Music on the Point, learning from figures such as Chaya Czernowin, Georg Friedrich Haas, Philippe Leroux, and Andrew Norman.

His honors include the Otto Ortmann Award in Composition, a Distinguished Mention from the Gunther Schuller Society's Third Stream Composition Contest, and finalist recognition in the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Competition. He is pursuing a PhD in composition at New York University, where he holds the Henry M. MacCracken Fellowship. Martin holds a Master of Music from the Peabody Conservatory, where he studied with Felipe Lara, and a Bachelor of Music from the University of North Texas.