Jeff Martin

Jeffrey Martin was appointed in 2012 as a specialist in music education and music technology. Before joining the Mount Allison University Music Department, he taught undergraduate and graduate courses in music education at the China Conservatory in Beijing, where he also developed initiatives to promote cultural and cross-institutional exchange. From 2005-2009 he was Head of Music and secondary teacher at Yew Chung International School of Shanghai (Pudong Campus), and earlier had lectured at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, both during and following the completion of a PhD.

His diverse background in music education includes general, instrumental and higher education teaching, and covers a wide range of ages and contexts. Informed by these experiences, he has developed an approach to curriculum that focuses on engaging learners in models of authentic music making practices, and encouraging life-long engagement in real-life musical situations whether amateur or professional. This approach is founded on the view that music’s value is relative to the diverse purposes and needs of the living communities involved in it.

Dr. Martin’s research interests include cognitive processes in music, philosophy of music education and electroacoustic music in education, among others. He has given presentations and workshops at numerous conferences and published various articles on music education in major journals such as Research Studies in Music Education, General Music Today, and the International Journal of Music Education, as well as contributed a chapter on composing and improvising to David Elliott’s (Ed.) Praxial music education: Reflections and dialogues (2005).

Jeffrey Martin is also active as a composer and improviser. His work includes music for fixed digital medium as well as collaborations with film directors, dancer/choreographers and visual artists.