Award-winning Trombonist Dylan Martin has performed extensively on 3 continents, winning the coveted Drum Corps International Performers' Showcase in 2014 as a member of the Blue Devils Drum & Bugle Corps. Dylan received his Music and Education degrees at the University of Calgary, studying with James Scott. Dylan's influences include Joseph Alessi, Alain Trudel, and Christian Lindberg. He performes frequently as a jazz and orchestral player on Trombone and Euphonium.
Dylan is the principal trombone of the Rocky Mountain Symphony Orchestra and has performed locally with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Alberta Winds, the Calgary Civic Symphony, Prime Time Big Band, the Calgary Jazz Orchestra, and Altius Brass. Dylan recently appeared on the album “Suite Jubilation” with Johnny Summers and the Calgary Jazz Orchestra. As a concerto soloist, Dylan has performed with the UofC Wind Ensemble, and the UofC Symphony Orchestra.
“Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.”
Dylan is a passionate educator and advocate for the performing arts. While at his time with the Calgary Stetson Show Band, the band saw several world championships of parade bands in Calgary, the United States, Brazil and Taiwan, Most Outstanding Community Band at the Alberta International Band Festival in 2016, and in 2015, his brass students were featured in the Stars of the Festival concert for the Calgary Performing Arts Festival. Recently, his band students earned a Superior Band Award at the Alberta Band Association Festival in Red Deer, an uncommon feat for first year band teachers.
Dylan is available for clinics and masterclasses, as well as solo and ensemble work.