Director of the
Arts Alliance Jazz Ensemble
Glenn Martin teaches Music Theory, Trombone, and Music Technology, at Cumberland University in Lebanon, Tennessee. He is active as a composer, arranger, jazz trombonist and clinician, and has had compositions or arrangements performed by the United States Marine Band, The Modern Jazz Tuba Project, The Tennessee All Mid-State Jazz Band, and by school and college groups throughout the U.S. He has had pieces published by CPP/Belwin-Warner Brothers, R.B.C. Music, The T.U.B.A. Press, and Jazz Anyone Publications.
Glenn earned a Masters of Music in Theory-Composition from Northeast Louisiana University and a B.S. in Music Education from Tennessee Technological University. He has also done graduate work at The University of Georgia and North Texas State University.
Mr. Martin taught instrumental music at the secondary level for twelve years, directing superior rated concert, marching and jazz bands. He has taught Jazz Combo, Music Theory and Music History courses at Tennessee State University, and taught Jazz Improvisation as a part of his graduate work at North Texas State University, under the tutelage of the late Rich Matteson.
