Glenn Martin  teaches Music Theory, Trombone,  and Music Technology, at Cumberland University in Lebanon, Tennessee.  He is active as a composer, arranger, jazz trombonist and clinician, and has had compositions or arrangements performed by the United States Marine Band, The Modern Jazz Tuba Project, The Tennessee All Mid-State Jazz Band, and by school and college groups throughout the U.S.  He has had pieces published by CPP/Belwin-Warner Brothers, R.B.C. Music, The T.U.B.A. Press, and Jazz Anyone Publications.  He has an M.M. in Theory-Composition from Northeast Louisiana University and a B.S. in Music Education from Tennessee Technological University.  He has also done graduate work at The University of Georgia and North Texas State University.    Mr. Martin taught instrumental music at the secondary level for twelve years, directing superior rated concert, marching and jazz bands.  He has taught Jazz Combo, Music Theory and Music History courses at Tennessee State University, and taught Jazz Improvisation as a part of his graduate work at North Texas State University, under the tutelage of the late Rich Matteson.                         

Jazz Clinic Clinic & Concert - Community High School Jazz Band, Unionville, TN,  Feb. 9, 2008
West Wilson Community Arts Alliance Jazz Band

Arete' - Performance, Saturday,  Nov. 17, 2007,  with the TTU Trombone Choir and Joseph Alessi

Arêté recorded by the TTU Trombone Choir.

Glenn Martin Quartet, Sunday, August 19, 2:00-4:00 PM, Community Stage, Wilson Co. Fair, Lebanon, TN

Five-In-One performed at the 2007 Watertown Jazz Festival by the Modern Jazz Tuba Project, July 7, 2007

Five-In-One premiered at The Tennessee Music Educators Convention, by Winston Morris & the TTU Tuba Ensemble.  April, 2007

Arêté premiered at The Eastern Trombone Workshop, March 22, 2007 by Josh Hauser and the TTU Trombone Choir

Summer Jazz Camp at Cumberland University - June 4-7,  2007  

Radford University Jazz Workshop - Clinician, Soloist - Radford, VA - Dec. 4, 2006

Jazz at Kijiji's - TSU Faculty Jazz Quartet - Jazz Jam - Oct. 6, 2006

Glenn Martin Quartet - September 21 - Jazz at the Watertown Train Station

The Pearl Casters & Valvin' On A Riff  published by R.B.C. Music, Fall '06  (and other sound clips)

Passacaglia and Fughetta premiered by the TSU Tuba Ensemble, April 6, 2006

The Granville Jazz Festival  The Glenn Martin Quartet,  Oct. 1, 2005

Contrapunctus and Fanfare & Dialogue for Brass Quintet, recorded by the A. P. S. U. Brass Quintet,  Spring 2004

Fanfare and Dialogue   premiered by the Cumberland University Brass Quintet, Nov. 6, 2003

The Pearl Casters performed by the 2003 All Middle Tennessee First Jazz Band (mp3 of midi file)

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