David Martins, Artistic Director Emeritus
David J. Martins is Professor of Music at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and Adjunct Professor of Music at Boston University. He has degrees from the Eastman School of Music and the University of Lowell, College of Music and was a recipient of a Berkshire Music Festival Tanglewood Fellowship.
With a dual career as a performer and conductor, David J. Martins balances orchestral and chamber music venues with an active teaching and conducting schedule. He is the Music Director of the Boston University Wind Ensemble, University of Massachusetts Lowell Wind Ensemble, Rhode Island Philharmonic Youth Wind Ensemble and the Lowell Summer Concert Band. Mr. Martins is Music Director Emeritus of the Metropolitan Wind Symphony, which during his tenure of ten years performed at the National Conference of the Association of Concert Bands and commissioned numerous new compositions. During the past several years, he has been in demand as a guest conductor and has conducted Festival ensembles throughout the Eastern United States. Since the summer of 1999 Mr. Martins has served on the faculty of the Boston University Tanglewood Institute as Director of Wind Activities for the Young Artist Orchestra and in the summer of 2005 will also conduct the Boston University Tanglewood Institute Wind Ensemble.
He is a member of the clarinet section of the Rhode Island Philharmonic and Boston Classical Orchestras and appears frequently with New Hampshire Symphony Orchestra, ProArte Chamber Orchestra, Boston Ballet Orchestra and Alea III. He has also performed with the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra, Monadnock Music Festival and Springfield Symphony. In past years he has toured with the Philharmonia Hungarica Orchestra of Germany on their USA tours, the Puccini Festival Orchestra throughout Italy, and has performed six tours throughout Greece and Russia as soloist and member of the contemporary chamber ensemble Alea III. He can be heard on orchestral and chamber recordings on the CRI, Koch, Titanic, Gasparo and Albany labels. Mr. Martins is a Boosey & Hawkes/Buffet artist clinician.
