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Greg Martin (he/him) is a music instructor and band director at Capital City Public Charter School in Washington D.C. He is a member of the school’s Instructional Leadership Team, is the faculty advisor for the Queer and Transgender Student Alliance, and was a member of the Race and Equity Core Committee. He began his teaching career as Director of Percussion at Mohonasen Senior High School in Schenectady, New York in 1993 and is currently a faculty member of the Music Education Division at The Catholic University of America. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Music Technology from The College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York, a Master of Music in Composition with an emphasis on Stage Music from The Catholic University of America, and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Musicology with a minor in Philosophy at The Catholic University of America. The subject of his research is the decolonization in the dialectic of music scholarship by using the shift to sound recording as the fixed medium rather than western music notation.

Mr. Martin has written non-fiction essays on aesthetics, modern music, electronic music, music pedagogy, music theory, music education, sociology, and philosophy. As a composer he has scored more than forty dramatic plays and has written for choir, voice, electronica, and small and large ensembles. His opera, Life in Death, was performed at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts’s Millennium Stage, and his work has been performed throughout the United States. Mr. Martin was commissioned to write a play, Poe, which was performed at the historic Reynolds Tavern in Annapolis, Maryland in 2015. He presented at the poster session of The American Musicological Society’s fall meeting in Richmond in 2015 on “The Record and the Creation of Hip-Hop Culture: How Technology Helped Create an African American Musical Style.” He co-authored the article, “Student-Centered Instruction: The Collaboration of Students and Teachers Through Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy and Antiracist Curriculum in Music Education” with Dr. Sharyn Battersby which is scheduled to be published in March 2025 in the peer-reviewed Music Educators Journal. Dr. Battersby and Mr. Martin presented the article at the 2024 D.C. Music Education Association conference and will be presenting again at the 2025 conference on “Student-Centered Instruction Techniques in Performance Ensemble Classes and Rehearsals.” He also presented at the 2024 the EL Education National Conference with Dr. Brittney Henderson on “Building a better world through the lens of Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy: an interactive session creating a blueprint for a Student-Centered Classroom.”