Zerrin Agabigum Martin

Bio:

Zerrin Agabigum Martin is active as conductor, educator, and professional singer. She is a first-year Doctor of Musical Arts candidate in Choral Conducting at the University of Florida. Previously, she held the positions of Director of Choirs at the P.K. Yonge Developmental Research School at the University of Florida, Director of Choirs at the Tower Hill School in Delaware, and the Director of the Trouvères and Troubador choirs with the Pennsylvania Girlchoir in Philadelphia.

Consistently, her middle and high school choirs have received top awards and accolades. In 2019, her 7th and 8th Grade Tower Hill Concert Choir presented a solo concert at the National Association for Music Education All- Eastern Division Conference. Her high school choirs have presented solo concerts at the Longwood Gardens in Pennsylvania, won numerous festival competitions, and have won First and Second Place Awards at the Maryland ECAS Choral Competitions. In 2013, she founded the Delaware Independent Schools Choral Festival, providing hundreds of high school choral singers opportunities to work with leading collegiate choral conductors on choral masterworks. Ms. Martin won the Top Educator Award of Delaware Mainline Today among other distinctions.
Ms. Martin has presented her papers at the New Jersey Women’s and Gender Studies Consortium and the Stony Brook University Graduate Studies Music Symposium, and won First Place in the Consortium competition.

In June 2023, she will present her thesis on practical applications of voice science with historically informed performance in the instruction of amateur and student choral ensembles at the 14th Annual International ATINER Conference in Athens, Greece.
An avid ensemble singer, Ms. Martin performs regularly with the Santa Fe Desert Chorale, Oregon Bach Festival Chorus, and Solaria Singers. She has performed with Seraphic Fire, True Concord Voices, The Crossing Choir, the Weimar Bachakademie Ensemble, the JSB Ensemble of the Internationale Bachakademie in Stuttgart, Norfolk Music Festival Chamber Choir.

Ms. Martin received her Bachelor of Music degree in voice performance with teaching certification from the University of Michigan, and her Master of Music degree in choral conducting from Westminster Choir College.