Christopher Martin was born in England and studied the violin with Henry Holst and the viola with Cecil Aronowicz at the Royal College of Music in London.
He began his professional viola career in the Edinburgh String Quartet. He then played for some years in the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra under Szymon Goldberg and the London String Orchestra under Carl Pini. During this time he formed the Christopher Martin Orchestra.
Since migrating to Australia over twenty years ago, Christopher has had an extremely busy professional life conducting, playing and teaching. He recently retired from his post as senior lecturer in Strings and Conducting at the Faculty of Music, University of Melbourne.
Christopher also conducts the Australian Doctors’ Orchestra, having been appointed for its premiere performance in 1993 and, since 1997, has been Musical Director of the Chamber Strings of Melbourne, a chamber orchestra for talented young artists.
Christopher has had long and happy associations as teacher and conductor with the music camps at Mt. Buller and Wagga Wagga, similarly with symphony orchestras, professional and amateur, all around Australia.
Early in 2000 Christopher was appointed Music Director of The Orchestra of U3A Hawthorn.
