Stephanie Martin, Conductor

Stephanie Martin, Conductor
	Prof. Stephanie Martin, B. Mus., M.A., ARCCO, is Director of Music and Organist at the Church of St. Mary Magdalene. Prof. Martin is a native of Listowel and has been Assistant Professor in the Department of Music, Faculty of Fine Arts at York University, Toronto, since 2004. Her Bachelor of Music is from Wilfrid Laurier University; her Master of Musicology from the University of Toronto and she is an Associate of the Royal Canadian College of Organists.Prof. Martin has been making music in Toronto for 22 years. For eleven years she was the highly regarded Director of Music at Calvin Presbyterian Church. She has also been the harpsichordist of the Arbor Oak Trio for 15 years. From this work a number of recordings have been issued. She also works with the Recordare ensemble, I Furiosi and the Toronto Consort. Prof. Martin conducts Toronto’s Pax Christi Chorale, an 85 voice oratorio choir who perform masterworks with full orchestra and professional soloists. Married to fellow musician, Bruce Kirkpatrick Hill, she has performed duet programmes on organ and harpsichord. Performance and study have taken them overseas as well as to Toronto recital locales. Prof Martin has won the Lillian Forsythe Award for Church Music and the Leslie Bell Choral Conducting Prize. She is also a published composer and arranger. She is a fan of theatre and visual art and dabbles in Celtic harp. Stephanie being interviewed about the SMM Willan Weekend on Studio Sparks with Eric Friesen this past February.

Prof. Stephanie Martin, B. Mus., M.A., ARCCO, is Director of Music and Organist at the Church of St. Mary Magdalene. Prof. Martin is a native of Listowel and has been Assistant Professor in the Department of Music, Faculty of Fine Arts at York University, Toronto, since 2004. Her Bachelor of Music is from Wilfrid Laurier University; her Master of Musicology from the University of Toronto and she is an Associate of the Royal Canadian College of Organists.Prof. Martin has been making music in Toronto for 22 years. For eleven years she was the highly regarded Director of Music at Calvin Presbyterian Church. She has also been the harpsichordist of the Arbor Oak Trio for 15 years. From this work a number of recordings have been issued. She also works with the Recordare ensemble, I Furiosi and the Toronto Consort. Prof. Martin conducts Toronto’s Pax Christi Chorale, an 85 voice oratorio choir who perform masterworks with full orchestra and professional soloists. Married to fellow musician, Bruce Kirkpatrick Hill, she has performed duet programmes on organ and harpsichord. Performance and study have taken them overseas as well as to Toronto recital locales. Prof Martin has won the Lillian Forsythe Award for Church Music and the Leslie Bell Choral Conducting Prize. She is also a published composer and arranger. She is a fan of theatre and visual art and dabbles in Celtic harp.

Stephanie being interviewed about the SMM Willan Weekend on Studio Sparks with Eric Friesen this past February.