Harry, Professor Martyn

Studies

Martyn Harry studied Composition with Alexander Goehr as part of his BA at Cambridge University, and Music Theatre Composition with Mauricio Kagel in Cologne on a DAAD scholarship. He has an Associate Diploma in Performance and Communications Studies from the Guildhall School of Music, and a PhD in Composition from City University where he studied with Simon Emmerson, Michael Finnissy, Douglas Young and Robert Saxton.

Experience

From 1993 to 1996, Martyn was the Executive Producer, New Music, for the international recording company Sony Classical.

From 1997 to 1999 he worked for the Arts Council of England as a consultant for its Recordings and Publications scheme, and as an assessor for lottery-funded schemes.

Between 2000 and 2003 Martyn also orchestrated a number of Hollywood film scores such as the music for Insomnia,  Happy Here and Now, Spivs, Inside I’m Dancing and The Descent.

From 2000 to 2003 Martyn was the Northern Arts Composer Fellow, based at the University of Durham, and became Head of Compositional Studies at the music department of Durham University in 2003.

He took up his present post at Oxford as a university lecturer at the Faculty of Music in 2009.