Prof. Timothy Martin
- Adjunct Faculty
- B.A. Music, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio
- Diploma in Voice, Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia
Native of Pennsylvania, Timothy Martin has been performing locally and internationally as a professional singer and actor for over 20 years. He perfected his music studies at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria and the Britten-Pears School of Music in England. He studied acting with Herbert Berghof at HB Studios in New York.
His work as a performer spans the entire spectrum of performing arts: theatre, opera, concert stage, television and cinema. He has performed Lieder recitals both in Italy and abroad, in places as faraway as Botswana with the Maittisong Symphony and in prestigious events such as the festival in Davos, Switzerland and the Spoleto Festival in Italy. His many operatic roles include Bacchus in Arianna & Naxos, Tamino in the Magic Flute, Lenski in Eugene Onegin and Alfredo in La Traviata.
He’s also performed in concerts as a Tenor soloist with the Rome Philarmonic, Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, the American Academy in Rome and Parco della Musica in Rome.
He’s sung, danced and acted in several plays and musicals, notably; The Italian premiers of Joe Penhall’s Blue/Orange, The Full Monty, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, Lady Day ( a musical about the life of Billie Holiday). He has also performed in major staged productions of Godspell, West Side Story, The Blacks (by Jean Genet) and Moby Dick.
Film and TV productions he’s acted in include; A Pure Formality (Giuseppe Tornatore), The Amanda Knox’s Story (Robert Dornhelm), Karl – The Pope, the Man (Giacomo Battiato), La Lettera (Luciano Cannito), Quale Amore (Maurizio Sciarra) and Numero Uno (Pippo Baudo). As well he’s acted in commercials for Kodak, Fiat, La Repubblica and Wind.
For over 10 years Timothy has successfully combined his life as a performer with teaching. In 1994, he began teaching voice at the Scuola Popolare di Musica di Testaccio and in 1999 he joined the faculty of The American University of Rome as an Adjunct Professor in Opera History. In 2005, in collaboration with AUR, he founded a workshop in Gospel music, from which The Amazing Grace Gospel Choir was born. The choir, which he directs, performs nationally and abroad, hosted by the Vatican City, the American Embassy to the Holy See and various functions for the Community of Rome. He is the founder and president of In Production, a cultural association promoting American and European artistic exchange.
