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The Amarican mezzo-soprano and choral conductor, Zerrin Agabigum Martin, obtained her Bachelor of Music degree in Voice Performance and a minor in Viola and Instrumental Music Education from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where she also earned her K-12 teaching certificate for music; and her Master of Music Degree in Choral Conducting from Westminster Choir College of Rider University. She studied conducting with Joe Miller, Andrew Megill and James Jordan.
Zerrin Martin is active as a conductor and performer. As a soloist, she has performed many solo recitals, and has sung as alto soloist in the Westminster Kantorei performances, including a performance of J.S. Bach's St. Matthew Passion (BWV 244); soloist with Masterwork Chorus of New Jersey in Felix Mendelssohn's Elijah, Westminster Choir and Westminster Kantorei performances, and as the alto soloist in Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass and W.A. Mozart's Coronation Mass, at Westminster Choir College. Recent singing engagements include also Copland's In the Beginning, George Frideric Handel's Messiah, Dietrich Buxtehude's Membra Jesu Nostri. An avid ensemble singer, she has performed with numerous choral ensembles, such as the Norfolk Music Festival Chamber Choir, The Crossing, Westminster Choir, Westminster Kantorei, and the JSB Ensemble of the Internationale Bachakademie in Stuttgart , Germany. She regularly performs with twice Grammy®-nominated Seraphic Fire in Miami, Tucson Chamber Artists, True Concord Voices and Orchestra, and the Oregon Bach Festival Berwick Chorus.
Zerrin Martin was the Choir Director at New Brunswick High School. She also was the Choir Director with the Trouvères and Troubadour choirs, which is part of the Pennsylvania Girlchoir in Philadelphia (2011-2012). Currently she is Director of Choral and Vocal Music and Director of Upper School and Middle School Choirs at the Tower Hill School (THS) in Wilmington, Delaware. She has been the music director for several shows, including Little Shop of Horrors, and THS productions of Seussical and Anything Goes. She was selected as one of Delaware Today's Top Teachers for 2019. |
