TYLER MARTIN

Tyler Martin joined the Houston Grand Opera Orchestra in the 2021 to 2022 season as Second Flute and Piccolo. He has performed with the symphony orchestras of Seattle, Milwaukee, Fort Worth, Omaha, and Missouri and worked with esteemed conductors like Patrick Summers, Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Michael Stern, Dame Jane Glover, Teddy Abrams, Eun Sun Kim, Cristian Măcelaru, and Larry Rachleff. He is a prizewinner of numerous competitions, including the Houston Flute Club, New York Flute Club, Austin Flute Society, and the National Flute Association’s Orchestral Audition Competition. Additionally, he was a semifinalist in the 2021 Young Concert Artists international auditions. In 2019, he was awarded Honorable Mention in the Boston Woodwind Society Flute Competition.

This past summer, he attended Spoleto Festival USA and the National Repertory Orchestra and was on faculty for the 2022 Virtual Flute Music Festival. An avid performer of new and contemporary music, he performs with Houston’s contemporary music collective Musiqa and is the dedicatee of works for flute and piccolo written for him by composers Joy Guidry, Jaylin Vinson, and Alex Berko. He has been featured as a guest artist at the 2020 National Flute Association Convention and gave a nationally broadcast solo recital and interview as a 2022 Young Artist in Residence for American Public Media’s Performance Today.

Tyler received a Bachelor of Music degree from DePaul University’s School of Music and Master of Music degrees from both the New England Conservatory of Music and the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University. His principal teachers include Alice K. Dade, Mark Sparks, Paula Robison, and Leone Buyse.

Tyler discovered his instruments at Flutistry and plays on a handmade 10K Powell flute with a 19.5K Lumina headjoint and a Powell Signature piccolo with a Mancke Kingwood headjoint.