Martin Banner received his Bachelor of Music degree in Music Education
from the Crane School of Music, SUNY Potsdam in upstate New York, and
earned the Master of Music degree in Choral Conducting from Temple
University, studying with Robert Page. As a clinician, he has presented
numerous workshops, conducted choral reading sessions and participated in
panel discussions at annual conferences of ACDA, the New York State
School Music Association and the Music Publishers Association. Martin is a
member of ACDA and MENC. As an editor, Martin has had over 100
modern performing editions published, with an emphasis on sacred Latin
works of the 18th and early 19th centuries for combined chorus and orchestra.
These editions have been prepared from autograph manuscripts located in
the archives of national libraries, monasteries and musical conservatories,
many of which Martin has visited during research trips to Vienna, Salzburg,
Melk, Munich, Bologna, Bergamo, Venice, Padova and Lucca. His
numerous choral editions have been widely performed throughout North and
South America, Europe, Asia and Australia, at such venues as Carnegie Hall
in New York City, Symphony Hall in Boston, the Harrowgate Festival in
Great Britain and the Abu Gosh Festival in Israel, and have appeared on the
programs of numerous All–State Choirs, as well as ACDA and NAFME
national and division honor choirs under the baton of some of America's
most distinguished conductors including Andre Thomas, Rodney
Eichenberger, Anton Armstrong, Simon Carrington, Kenneth Fulton, Lynne
Gackle and Weston Noble.
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