Rex Martin

Academic career

• Professor of Tuba, Bern University of the Arts 2016–present
• International Visiting Professor of Music, Royal Academy of Music in London
• Professor of Music Emeritus, Northwestern University 2017–present
• Professor of Music, Northwestern University 1988-2017
• Received a BM in Music performance from Illinois State University, 1982
• Received an MM in music performance from Northwestern University, 1983
• Professor at DePaul University
• Professor at Illinois State University
• Professor at the University of Notre Dame
• Instructor at Northwestern University in 1988
• Assistant Professor at Northwestern University in 1989
• Professor at University of Illinois at Chicago
• Associate Professor at Northwestern University in 1994
• Professor at the Oberlin Conservatory
• Professor of Tuba and Euphonium at Northwestern University - currently Professor Emeritus
• Martin was on the faculty of Ticino Musica in Lugano, Switzerland from 2002-2017

  Professional career

• Beginning in 1998 Martin taught a twice yearly series of master classes in Castagneto Carducci, Italy. In these classes he worked with some of the finest professional brass players in Italy.
• In 1995, Martin was the host of the 1995 International Tuba Euphonium Conference at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.
• As a conductor and clinician, Martin has worked with the brass sections of symphony orchestras in Mexico City, Osaka, Malmö, Sweden, Stavanger, Norway, Rome, and Copenhagen, Aarhus, Odense, Sonderborg, and Alborg, Denmark.
• Martin has presented recitals and master classes at the prestigious Blekinge International Brass Academy in Karlskrona, Sweden eight times.
• Martin has presented master classes and recitals at the Spanish Brass Festival in Valencia, Spain.
• Has presented recitals and master classes in Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Switzerland, France, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Australia, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Costa Rica, Mexico, and throughout the United States.

  Orchestras

Orchestra (Member)

• Chicago Philharmonic Orchestra
• The Ravinia Festival Orchestra
• The Ars Viva Orchestra
• Fulcrum Point New Music Project
• Chicago Brass Ensemble

  Orchestra (Performed)

• Chicago Symphony Orchestra
• St. Louis Symphony Orchestra
• Lyric Opera of Chicago
• New York Philharmonic
• Contemporary Chamber Players
• Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus
• Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
• Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
• Boston Symphony Orchestra
• North Carolina Symphony Orchestra
• OFUNAM Orchestra of Mexico City
• Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra
• Lucerne Festival Orchestra

  Discography

• He has recorded many CDs with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Sir Georg Solti, Claudio Abbado, Leonard Bernstein, Naeme Järvi, Michael Tilson Thomas, Leonard Slatkin, and Daniel Barenboim.
• His playing can be heard on recordings by the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Sinfonietta, Symphony II, Chicago Philharmonic Orchestra, Chicago Pro Musica, and Mannheim Steamroller.
• In 2008, his solo CD "Rex Martin Live in Japan" was released on the label. It is a solo tuba CD recorded live, unedited, from a single concert on August 10, 2007, at the Osaka Philharmonic Hall.

  Performances

Accompanied

• Tony Bennett
• Dave Brubeck
• Ray Charles
• Wynton Marsalis
• Luciano Pavarotti
• Frank Sinatra
• Mel Tormé
• Sarah Vaughan

  Television

Awards

• 1998 Martin received the "Young Alumni Award" from Illinois State University.
• Outstanding Alumni Award Illinois State University

  Trivia

• Martin's sister Becky Kevoian is married to Bob Kevoian of the nationally syndicated Bob and Tom Show. Some of the tuba performance heard on this show were done by Rex Martin.