ABOUT JEREMY

Jeremy S. Martin (b. 1975) grew up in Ardmore, a small town right on the Tennessee-Alabama state line. He completed his Bachelor of Music at Tennessee Technological University where he studied composition with Robert Jager, conducting with Joseph W. Hermann, and trumpet with Charles Decker. He later completed a Master's in Wind Conducting from the University of Alabama where he studied conducting with Kenneth Ozzello and John Ratledge. Additional instructors have included Roger Nixon, Alexander "Sandy" Courage, and Earle Hagen.

Jeremy spent several years teaching middle school and high school bands in Shelbyville, TN before joining the US Air Force Bands as Staff Music Arranger & Composer in 2000. He spent 26 years writing music for Air Force bands across the world before retiring from the position in 2026. He completed nearly 400 musical works for Air Force concert bands, jazz ensembles, and chamber groups, and in 2025 his composition "Normandy, 1944" was awarded a Mid-America Regional Emmy© for Outstanding Achievement in Music Composition.  Jeremy is a member of ASCAP, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia (Xi Chi Chapter), and the Music Educator's National Conference (MENC). His musical compositions and arrangements have been published by LudwigMasters Publications, Southern Music Company, and Carl Fisher, and he is the only person in the world to admit that he has played "principal contrabass clarinet."