Martyn is a versatile trombonist based in Birmingham. He gained a First Class Hons degree at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire where he won the Conservatoire’s Brass Prize and was awarded the Corton Hyde Early Music Prize. He then went on to further his study on the sackbut at Post-Graduate level gaining a distinction in period performance.

Martyn performs regularly with such groups as Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s English Baroque Soloists, Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique, The Gabrieli Consort and Players, His Majesty’s Sagbutts and Cornetts, English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble, Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century and The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. This has afforded him the opportunity to perform at exciting venues around the world such as Teatro La Fenice, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Château de Versailles, Palau de La Música, Odeon of Herodes Atticus, Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall.

As an educator Martyn teaches Trombone and Sackbut at University of Birmingham as well as giving orchestral coaching sessions and early music workshops there. Martyn was the Brass chamber music tutor for Aldeburgh Youth Music during the 2017/18 season and directed the early music course the following year.

Martyn enjoys collaborating with a diverse range of musicians as a member of Propellor ensemble (a cross-genre based project and artist in residence at Snape Maltings Open Space 2016-18), the amplified contemporary music ensemble DECIBEL, and period brass ensemble The Prince Regent’s Band where he enjoys exploring 19th century repertoire playing the baritone saxhorn and tenorhorn as well as an array of old trombones!